CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles

2025-02-10

In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian flu has forced farmers to kill millions of chickens to prevent its spread.

2025-02-07

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they’ve cracked the code for boiling the perfect egg. It’s a recipe you can test for yourself — though the timing isn’t ideal with soaring egg prices in the United State

2025-02-06

WASHINGTON (AP) — The website of the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek, whose chatbot became the most downloaded app in the United States, has computer code that could send some user lo

2025-02-05

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That’s good news for scie

2025-02-05

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin joined top energy companies in issuing a report to the Texas Legislature advising the steps it could take to advance the state’s growing hydrogen indu

2024-12-11

AUSTIN, Texas — Since the emergence of temporary, skin-attached electronic tattoos more than a decade ago — and their evolution to measure heart activity, track pneumonia, measure stress levels, and m

2024-12-04

AUSTIN, Texas — Coal ash — the chalky remnants of coal that has been burned for fuel — has been piling up across the United States for decades. But new research led by The University of Texas at Austi

2024-11-19

AUSTIN, Texas — A new cooling technology could change how heat is managed in electronic devices — from tiny semiconductors to massive data centers. A team led by scientists and engineers at The Univer

2024-10-22

Materials scientists dream of futuristic devices like quantum computers infinitely more powerful than conventional computers and solar cells capable of squeezing nearly all the energy out of sunlight.

2024-10-10

The University of Texas at Austin is playing a pivotal role in developing the first new nuclear reactor in Texas in decades based on a novel technology that promises safer, more efficient nuclear ener

2024-10-10

AUSTIN, Texas — Planet AF Lep b is a world of firsts. In 2023, it was the lowest-mass planet outside our solar system to be directly observed and have its mass measured using astrometry. This is a tec

2024-10-09