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- Artificial Intelligence Trained to Draw Inspiration from Images, Not Copy Them https://news.utexas.edu/2024/05/20/artificial-intelligence-trained-to-draw-inspiration-from-images-not-copy-them/ 0 comments
- Same-sex married couples cope with stress more positively and collaboratively than different-sex couples, and women married to men report more negative support — meaning that their spouses react ambivalently or even hostilely in response to stress — than women married to women https://news.utexas.edu/2022/11/02/same-sex-married-couples-handle-stress-better-than-different-sex-couples/ 917 comments science
- Blood Pressure E-Tattoo Promises Continuous, Mobile Monitoring https://news.utexas.edu/2022/06/20/blood-pressure-e-tattoo-promises-continuous-mobile-monitoring/ 12 comments science
- Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste https://news.utexas.edu/2022/04/27/plastic-eating-enzyme-could-eliminate-billions-of-tons-of-landfill-waste/ 330 comments science
- New Method Can Disarm Antibiotic Resistance in Deadly Bacteria https://news.utexas.edu/2022/02/22/new-method-can-disarm-antibiotic-resistance-in-deadly-bacteria/ 12 comments science
- Although natural disasters can cause horrific damage to homes and infrastructure, they can bring married couples closer together, at least temporarily. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind study from researchers that looked at couples in the Houston area before and after Hurricane Harvey. https://news.utexas.edu/2021/10/26/how-a-natural-disaster-can-bring-couples-closer/ 6 comments science
- Hydrogel Tablet Can Purify a Liter of River Water in an Hour | University of Texas https://news.utexas.edu/2021/10/05/this-hydrogel-tablet-can-purify-a-liter-of-river-water-in-an-hour/ 11 comments technology
- School gardens linked with kids eating more vegetables: Students who participated in gardening, nutrition and cooking classes ate a half serving more vegetables per day. “Teaching kids where their food comes from, how to grow it, how to prepare it — that’s key to changing eating behaviors.” https://news.utexas.edu/2021/02/04/school-gardens-linked-with-kids-eating-more-vegetables/ 760 comments science
- Declines in blue-collar jobs have left some working-class men frustrated by unmet job expectations and more likely to suffer an early death by suicide. Occupational expectations developed in adolescence serve as a benchmark for perceptions of adult success and, when unmet, pose a risk of self-injury https://news.utexas.edu/2020/12/01/unmet-job-expectations-linked-to-a-rise-in-suicide-deaths-of-despair/ 3430 comments science
- A new type of soil created by engineers can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reducing water use in agriculture at a time of growing droughts. https://news.utexas.edu/2020/11/02/self-watering-soil-could-transform-farming/ 541 comments science
- Coronavirus Mutation May Have Made It More Contagious https://news.utexas.edu/2020/10/30/coronavirus-mutation-may-have-made-it-more-contagious/ 13 comments worldnews
- Research shows compensating employees based on their accomplishments rather than on hours worked produces better results. When organizations with a mix of high- to low-performing employees base rewards on hours worked, all employees see compensation as unfair, and they end up putting in less effort. https://news.utexas.edu/2020/10/28/employers-should-reward-workers-for-accomplishments-not-hours-worked/ 1466 comments science
- Scientists have genetically engineered a symbiotic honeybee gut bacterium to protect against parasitic and viral infections associated with colony collapse. https://news.utexas.edu/2020/01/30/bacteria-engineered-to-protect-bees-from-pests-and-pathogens/ 1451 comments science
- The Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory has found its first habitable-zone exoplanet, a miniature Neptune orbiting a red dwarf about 100 light-years from Earth. https://news.utexas.edu/2020/02/21/planet-finder-validates-its-first-habitable-zone-exoplanet-a-mini-neptune/ 12 comments science
- The Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory has found its first habitable-zone exoplanet, a miniature Neptune orbiting a red dwarf about 100 light-years from Earth. https://news.utexas.edu/2020/02/21/planet-finder-validates-its-first-habitable-zone-exoplanet-a-mini-neptune/ 6 comments science
- 'Fake news' isn't easy to spot on Facebook. Participants were asked to read political news headlines presented as they would appear in a Facebook feed and determine their credibility. They assessed only 44% correctly, selecting headlines that aligned with their own political beliefs as true. https://news.utexas.edu/2019/11/05/fake-news-isnt-easy-to-spot-on-facebook-according-to-new-study/ 218 comments science
- Formerly sedentary young adults who were instructed to exercise regularly for several weeks started choosing healthier foods without being asked to, finds a new study of 2,680 young adults. https://news.utexas.edu/2019/01/30/want-healthier-eating-habits-start-with-a-workout/ 1620 comments science
- Trolling the U.S.: Q&A on Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election https://news.utexas.edu/2019/01/09/trolling-the-u-s-qa-on-russian-interference-in-the-2016-presidential-election/ 4 comments worldnews
- Intellectual curiosity and confidence made children more adept to take on math and reading than diligence and perseverance, suggesting that children’s personalities may influence how they perform in math and reading, according to a new study. https://news.utexas.edu/2018/12/19/intellectual-curiosity-and-confidence-help-children-take-on-math-and-reading/ 516 comments science
- Where Water Goes After Fracking is Tied to Earthquake Risk. The researchers found that the increased pressure that is caused by storing produced water inside geologic formations raises the risk of induced seismicity. https://news.utexas.edu/2018/10/31/where-water-goes-after-fracking-is-tied-to-earthquake-risk 24 comments science
- Genes Are Key to Academic Success, Study Shows. Researchers found educational achievement to be highly stable throughout schooling, meaning that most students who started off well in primary school continued to do well until graduation. Genetic factors explained about 70 percent of this stability https://news.utexas.edu/2018/09/05/genes-are-key-to-academic-success-study-shows 7 comments science
- Writing Thank You Notes Is More Powerful Than We Realize, Study Shows https://news.utexas.edu/2018/08/28/showing-gratitude-improves-well-being 3 comments science
- Air Pollution Reduces Global Life Expectancy by More Than One Year, Study Finds https://news.utexas.edu/2018/08/22/air-pollution-reduces-global-life-expectancy-by-one-year 8 comments science
- How students view intelligence may affect how they internalize academic stress, study finds (N=499 ninth-grade students). Students who reported the belief that intelligence is fixed showed higher cortisol, or stress hormones, when grades were declining. https://news.utexas.edu/2018/07/18/students-view-of-intelligence-affects-their-level-of-stress 60 comments science
- New nerve gas detector built with Legos and a smartphone combines a chemical sensor with photography to detect and identify different nerve agents. The device could help first responders and scientists in the field identify deadly and difficult-to-detect nerve agents such as VX and sarin. https://news.utexas.edu/2018/06/27/new-nerve-gas-detector-built-with-legos-and-a-smartphone 5 comments science
- T. Rex Couldn’t Stick Out Its Tongue, New Research Shows. Instead, their tongues were probably rooted to the bottoms of their mouths in a manner akin to alligators. https://news.utexas.edu/2018/06/20/t-rex-couldn-t-stick-out-its-tongue 4 comments science
- New technology extracts lithium and other metals from sea water and could help with desalination. https://news.utexas.edu/2018/02/09/new-lithium-collection-method-could-boost-global-supply 4 comments science
- Small genetic mutation in poison frogs keeps them from poisoning themselves, findings could help fight against pain and addiction https://news.utexas.edu/2017/09/21/why-poison-frogs-don-t-poison-themselves 4 comments science
- Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research https://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers 3 comments science
- Scientists create "time crystals", a rule-bending new form of matter https://news.utexas.edu/2017/03/08/scientists-create-new-form-of-matter-a-time-crystal 9 comments science
- Two subsequent extinction events following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction likely delayed global ecosystem recovery by millions of years https://news.utexas.edu/2017/03/15/recovery-after-great-dying-was-slowed-by-more-extinctions 3 comments science
- The inventor of lithium batteries just developed a new solid state battery type which aims to replace lithium due to three times as high energy density https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/28/goodenough-introduces-new-battery-technology 2 comments science
- Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/28/goodenough-introduces-new-battery-technology 6 comments technology
- University of Texas Study Estimates More Than 300,000 Victims of Human Trafficking in Texas -- 79,000 Are Child Sex Slaves https://news.utexas.edu/2017/01/24/there-are-300000-victims-of-human-trafficking-in-texas 7 comments worldnews
- A strangely shaped depression on Mars could be a new place to look for signs of life on the Red Planet, according to a study. The depression was probably formed by a volcano beneath a glacier and could have been a warm, chemical-rich environment well suited for microbial life. http://news.utexas.edu/2016/11/10/mars-funnel-could-support-alien-life 514 comments science
- Relationship satisfaction and the energy devoted to keeping a partner are dependent on how the partner compares with other potential mates, a finding that relates to evolution’s stronghold on modern relationship psychology, according to a study. http://news.utexas.edu/2016/05/17/relationship-satisfaction-depends-on-the-mating-pool 4 comments science
- Computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers. http://news.utexas.edu/2016/05/16/computer-science-advance-could-improve-cybersecurity 701 comments technology
- Computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers http://news.utexas.edu/2016/05/16/computer-science-advance-could-improve-cybersecurity 87 comments compsci
- Continental arc volcanism tied to shifts in Earth’s climate over tens and hundreds of millions of years. http://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/21/volcanoes-tied-to-shifts-in-earth-s-climate 12 comments science
- Hormones Influence Unethical Behavior http://news.utexas.edu/2015/07/28/hormones-influence-unethical-behavior 4 comments science