A group of scientists and engineers that includes researchers from The University of Texas at Austin has created a new class of materials that can absorb low energy light and transform it into higher energy light.
Taking care of a family is hard work. Not only are cuckoos well aware of this, but some species of fish are as well – for instance, catfish found in Lake Tanganyika in Africa. They prefer to leave the care of their offspring to others, perfecting their strategy for tricking the hosts over the course of their lives. The learning process of the cuckoo catfish has been described by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the CAS. Their findings were published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications.
Romantic heterosexual relationships in humans may have evolved from same-sex pairings in a common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, according to a novel hypothesis by a researcher at The University of Texas at Austin.
Using linguistic and cognitive approaches, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of California Los Angeles propose an explanation for why AI programs like ChatGPT, which can produce fluid and coherent sentences, are sometimes prone to errors that human writers are not.
The positive effects of breastfeeding and breast milk on the right growth, health, and development of babies are indisputable. What factors can affect the quality of this wholesome substance? And what is the optimal length of time to breastfeed? The answers are suggested by two new studies by Czech researchers from the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the CAS and the Institute of Physiology of the CAS, published in the journals Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research and Food Chemistry.
A recent study conducted by the University of Missouri found that mothers struggling with depression are likely to take longer to respond to their children during back-and-forth dialogue according to an MU news release published on February 17.
Texas A&M University researchers have delved into the energy mechanisms that enable bacteria to survive antibiotics, providing crucial insights into antibiotic resistance.
During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first 15 months, people in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in a large U.S. city suffered infection rates up to 10 times as high as their counterparts in wealthier neighborhoods, research from The University of Texas at Austin has found.
Countries that offer tax breaks for corporate innovation realize greater economic growth than those with no such policies, according to a study from The University of Texas at Austin.
Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate testing remains a challenge, even more so as the virus has mutated over time, becoming more contagious with symptoms that are hard to tell apart from other illnesses.
Internal job candidates have an advantage over external candidates, because they tend to work harder shortly before a hiring decision, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
Supercomputing simulations on TACC's Stampede2 system spot electronic differences in adjacent transition-metal atoms
Cameron Gordon, a mathematician known for his research on knots, was elected to the country’s most prestigious scientific organization.
The first-ever vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) uses research from a team that includes Jason McLellan, a professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin
When the first COVID-19 vaccine trial in the U.S. began on March 16, history was being made.
A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of text.
A new flexible, wearable medical device could provide a major boost in the fight against heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
A novel imaging method using DNA-based fluorescent sensors is yielding new insights about the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appears to be finding multiple galaxies that grew too massive too soon after the Big Bang, if the standard model of cosmology is to be believed.
The empirical data of a team of Czech researchers shows that a large part of the public has misconceptions about doctors' views on COVID-19 vaccination. Although the vast majority of physicians trust and support the vaccines, there is a common belief among the public that doctors' opinions are split roughly 50–50. Informing the public of the broad consensus of the doctors' opinions has persistently increased vaccination rates and has played an important role in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The research findings were published by one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals, Nature.