Media Releases
October 1, 2010
GeoFORCE Keeps Growing
GeoFORCE Texas, one of the nation’s largest geosciences pipeline programs, has just wrapped up its biggest summer of field trips ever. The program began in…
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September 30, 2010
Fossilized Giant Penguin Reveals Unusual Colors, Sheds Light on Bird Evolution
Paleontologists have unearthed the first extinct penguin with preserved evidence of scales and feathers. The 36-million-year-old fossil from Peru shows the new giant penguin’s feathers…
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August 31, 2010
New Supercomputing Model Enables Breakthrough Findings in Plate Tectonics
Computational scientists and geophysicists at The University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new supercomputer model that…
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August 6, 2010
Researchers Find No Water In Moon’s Mantle
Recently, there’s been a fair amount of interest and excitement about whether or not there is actually water on the moon. And it’s true, water…
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July 8, 2010
Geoscientists Find Clues to Why First Sumatran Earthquake Was Deadlier Than Second
An international team of geoscientists has uncovered geological differences between two segments of an earthquake fault that may explain why the 2004 Sumatra Boxing Day…
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June 28, 2010
University Receives $19 Million To Monitor Carbon Storage Project
The University of Texas at Austin will receive up to $19 million from the U.S. Department of Energy and NRG Energy to design and oversee…
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May 26, 2010
Planetary Scientists Solve 40-year-old Mysteries of Mars’ Northern Ice Cap
Scientists have reconstructed the formation of two curious features in the northern ice cap of Mars—a chasm larger than the Grand Canyon and a series…
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October 1, 2010
GeoFORCE Keeps Growing
GeoFORCE Texas, one of the nation’s largest geosciences pipeline programs, has just wrapped up its biggest summer of field trips ever. The program began in…
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2010
Fossilized Giant Penguin Reveals Unusual Colors, Sheds Light on Bird Evolution
Paleontologists have unearthed the first extinct penguin with preserved evidence of scales and feathers. The 36-million-year-old fossil from Peru shows the new giant penguin’s feathers…
Read MoreAugust 31, 2010
New Supercomputing Model Enables Breakthrough Findings in Plate Tectonics
Computational scientists and geophysicists at The University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new supercomputer model that…
Read MoreAugust 6, 2010
Researchers Find No Water In Moon’s Mantle
Recently, there’s been a fair amount of interest and excitement about whether or not there is actually water on the moon. And it’s true, water…
Read MoreJuly 8, 2010
Geoscientists Find Clues to Why First Sumatran Earthquake Was Deadlier Than Second
An international team of geoscientists has uncovered geological differences between two segments of an earthquake fault that may explain why the 2004 Sumatra Boxing Day…
Read MoreJune 28, 2010
University Receives $19 Million To Monitor Carbon Storage Project
The University of Texas at Austin will receive up to $19 million from the U.S. Department of Energy and NRG Energy to design and oversee…
Read MoreMay 26, 2010
Planetary Scientists Solve 40-year-old Mysteries of Mars’ Northern Ice Cap
Scientists have reconstructed the formation of two curious features in the northern ice cap of Mars—a chasm larger than the Grand Canyon and a series…
Read More