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October 25, 2016

Dean Sharon Mosher Receives Alumni Achievement Award From Alma Mater

September 23, 2016

A 3.2-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree?

In 1974, the paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson led an expedition to Ethiopia to look for fossils of ancient human relatives. In an expanse of arid…

September 14, 2016

Bureau of Economic Geology: 10B barrels in Eagle Ford ‘recoverable’

 The once-mighty Eagle Ford Shale oil patch is on its heels, on track for the lowest amount of drilling activity in six years, and getting…

September 2, 2016

X-ray gun gives drillers better shot at finding oil

AUSTIN – Harry Rowe has a ray gun. It’s small and gray and might, he thinks, change how companies dig for oil. Rowe is a…

July 22, 2016

University Of Texas Program GeoFORCE Inspires Students To Pursue STEM Careers July 19, 2016

Americans continue to lag behind numerous other countries in math and science. According to scientists, education in these fields is severely lacking. A 2015 Pew…

July 14, 2016

Think dinosaurs roared like in ‘Jurassic Park’? The truth, new research says, is a bit wimpier

According to the new research, dino sounds may be what scientists call “closed-mouth vocalizations.” Unlike the high-pitched chirps and tweets from the open beaks of songbirds, the closed-mouth sounds…

July 7, 2016

Get This: Ancient Ostrich Relatives Used to Strut Across the American West

If you visited Wyoming around 50 million years ago, you might see a peculiar little bird racing through the hot, dense forests of the Eocene….

June 14, 2016

We’re Beginning to Understand How Rainstorms Get So Extreme

Aerosol particles—the tiny bits of dust and other matter expelled by everything from volcanoes and dust storms to car exhaust and power plants—might be making thunderstorms…

June 8, 2016

Texas scientists probe crater they think led to dinosaur doomsday

Scientists think that 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck Earth near what is now the Gulf of Mexico, devastating the planet and wiping…

June 8, 2016

Mars is coming out of an extreme ice age, study finds

In a discovery that could shed new light on the past habitability of Mars and provide new insight into how to deal with the climate…