Team's E-Whiskers May Be a Touchstone for Future of Electronic Skin

Those cute little whiskers you see on your pet do more than just twitch adorably. Intrigued by the hairs’ versatility, University of Texas at Dallas researchers used shape-memory polymers to create artificial, electronic versions called...
25-Jun-2018 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Geoscientists Suggest ‘Snowball Earth’ Resulted from Plate Tectonics

In a new study published in the April issue of the journal Terra Nova, geologists at The University of Texas at Dallas and UT Austin suggest that episodes of global cooling that geologists refer to as “Snowball Earth” can be linked to the advent...
7-May-2018 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Solid Research Leads Physicists to Propose New State of Matter

The term “superfluid quasicrystal” sounds like something a comic-book villain might use to carry out his dastardly plans. In reality, it’s a new form of matter proposed by theoretical physicists at The University of Texas at Dallas in a recent...
9-Apr-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Study: Pain's Origins May Be Significantly Different in Males and Females

New research from The University of Texas at Dallas supports the growing consensus that pain begins differently for men and women at the cellular level.
6-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Scientists Isolate Cancer Stem Cells Using Novel Method

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have devised a new technique to isolate aggressive cells thought to form the root of many hard-to-treat metastasized cancers, a significant step toward developing new drugs that might target these...
22-Feb-2018 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Researchers Devise Decoy Molecule to Block Pain Where It Starts

Dr. Zachary Campbell, who researches pain on the molecular level at the University of Texas at Dallas, recently published a study that describes a new method of reducing pain-associated behaviors with RNA-based medicine, creating a new class of...
16-Jan-2018 2:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

UT Dallas Researchers Develop Techniques to Analyze Massive Apollo Mission Audio Archive

Nearly 20,000 hours of audio from NASA's lunar missions remained in archives until UT Dallas researchers launched a project to analyze all communication between astronauts, mission control and back-room support staff and make it accessible to the...
7-Dec-2017 12:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

UT Dallas Chemist Has Designs on Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer

Dr. Jung-Mo Ahn, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas, has designed a small molecule that could help breast cancer patients for whom current treatments no longer work.
9-Nov-2017 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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