NaturalSciences @ UT

Official account for the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. #TexasScience @UTAustin

[Meyers Lab at UT Austin @meyerslab]

Traditional surveillance tracks known diseases. TreeScan looks for the unexpected. During the 2026 @FIFAWorldCup, epiENGAGE @UTPandemics & public health partners used TreeScan to scan ER data for unusual clusters, helping detect emerging health threats...👉https://t.co/q8EBl1h6xe

[UT Austin Chemistry @UTChemistry]

Congratulations to Paola Sotelo, Hang Ren, Mike Rose, and Sean Roberts on their promotions!

https://t.co/XBmnMCRAmO

[McDonald Observatory @mcdonaldobs]

Deep Sky Tour: Exoplanet Exploration
🗓️ NEXT WEEK!!

@mcdonaldobs' Saul Rivera and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, James Mang, talk all about exoplanets!
Aug 12, 9:30 pm, CT

🔗 LIVE!
On Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube:
https://t.co/p9fW0CUujR

#livestream #mcdonaldobservatory

[UT Austin Chemistry @UTChemistry]

Congratulations to Michael Krische, recipient of the Akira Suzuki Award!

https://t.co/Q6F6InofpW

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

6/6: Illustration credit: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI).

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

1/6: Physicists have revealed the origin of a possible runaway black hole: two supermassive black holes smashed together, spawning gravitational waves that gave the resulting black hole a powerful kick. Read the paper in @PhysRevLett: https://t.co/au5PK6RlwW

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

5/6: The runaway black hole was kicked out of its home galaxy and is now racing through space at supersonic speed.

[UT Austin @UTAustin]

Publishing in a leading academic journal is a career-defining achievement for many researchers.

A group of @TexasScience undergraduates achieved that milestone before graduation, publishing in @Nature while helping solve a 100-million-year-old mystery: https://t.co/yC5m5u0bwc

[UT Austin @UTAustin]

Tower Tuesday: Alumnus Alan Bloebaum has a lifetime of memories with the Tower.

He's been exploring it since he was 8 years old. It became his favorite place to study as a Longhorn, and at 84, he's finding new appreciation for the University's iconic landmark: https://t.co/AYg4J1WCHv

[McDonald Observatory @mcdonaldobs]

Exciting new study, led by astronomers at @UTAustin, could help solve two astronomical riddles at once!

🔴 Check out some proposed theories on "Little Red Dots" and globular clusters -
https://t.co/TnNc3NeJ11

#Webb

[Texas Astronomy @UTAstronomy]

One Idea, Two Cosmic Mysteries: Linking Little Red Dots and Globular Clusters

A new study led by astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin proposes a theory that could solve two astronomical riddles at once.

https://t.co/uVJLJfK4X7

[UT Austin @UTAustin]

What if a new 3D printing method could simulate everything from bone to ligaments to muscle in a single model?

Researchers from @texasscience developed CRAFT, a breakthrough that could open the door to better surgical training, safer protective gear and more: https://t.co/sQon5Y20Mm

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

Using a disco ball in space and lasers, scientists have confirmed one of Einstein’s weirdest predictions: rotating objects (like Earth) drag spacetime around them. They measured “frame dragging” with the highest precision ever. Learn more: https://t.co/mdZQfIGmNb @UTAerospace

[Texas Astronomy @UTAstronomy]

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and discovered it may be more Earth-like than previously thought.

https://t.co/2HPt2lZCY2

[UT Austin @UTAustin]

No joystick. No remote control. No human calling the plays.

At RoboCup 2026, UT Austin Villa's humanoid robots played soccer entirely on their own, using AI, computer vision, and reinforcement learning to make every decision in real time. After competing against 22 teams from around the world, they earned an impressive fourth-place finish.

Read more about this incredible team here - https://t.co/BVmXHjf0nl

[UT Austin @UTAustin]

Did you know the primary occupants of the Tower are plants? 🌱

Hidden inside the UT Tower are 10 floors housing more than 1 million preserved plant specimens, including one collected by Charles Darwin in 1835.

Learn more about the Tower's herbarium here - https://t.co/mOOhyGv2LX

[UT Austin @UTAustin]

From CERN's Large Hadron Collider to a cosmic ray observatory high in the Swiss Alps, these UT Austin students got a front-row seat to some of the world's most advanced particle physics research. 🤘🔬

Read more about the Maymester that took Longhorns to several of Europe's premier particle and nuclear physics laboratories here - https://t.co/mgjGIom7cB