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Research Web Features Archive

Check out this archive of Research Web feature stories arranged by subject. Also, visit the archive for the feature stories that appear on the university's home page.

Deep sixing CO₂: University of Texas-led project investigates keeping the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere by burying it.
Into clean air: Richard Corsi wants you to breathe easier indoors, where the air might be worse than you think.
Climate change by the numbers: Camille Parmesan’s studies provide strong statistical evidence of global warming’s impact.
Sound science: Applied Research Labs’ project could keep tiny pollution particles out of the air.
Help from the sky: Using satellites and software, UT's Center for Space Research helps keep Texas disaster response on target and on track.

Microarrayed for discovery: Professor chips in to determine how genes work with each other.
Genetics pioneer: Texas researcher’s X-ray experiments won a Nobel Prize in 1946.
Lessons from a master: Into his 90s, Norman Hackerman still taught about chemistry and living.
Ultimate learning machine: New research center unfolding how the brain learns and remembers.
Picturing the brain: MRI scanner opens new areas of research for UT scientists.
Stronger muscles. Better arteries?: Hirofumi Tanaka wants to determine the relationship between pumping iron and healthy blood flow.
Eat your spinach. Really!: Esmond Snell’s pioneering work on folic acid is still paying off in healthier babies, less cardiovascular disease.
Get well sooner
New tissue for old bodies: Working to develop ways to create new tissues or regenerate existing ones, Christine Schmidt fights tissue and organ loss.

Personal histories: Doctoral student helps people put home movies back on screens.
Dominance defeated: With close look at Mexico, government professor explains why powerful parties lose reins of power.
The word on the street: Research project tries to turn homeless young people on to sexual health.
More than a march of dimes: Texas historian’s book on battle against polio earns Pulitzer Prize.
Game for learning: Neural networks research produces NERO, a game in which characters get smarter.
Connecting with community: Rick Cherwitz’s project seeks to get academics and society engaged.
The art of worship: Jeffrey Smith examines how Jesuits employed art to help revive the Catholic church in Germany.
Come to Chersonesos
1, 2, 3 leads to A, B, C

Going green: Chemist seeks to transform the way drugs are made.
Discovering planets: Barbara McArthur finds a Neptune-sized planet orbiting around a distant sun.
The human code: Researcher’s handcrafted work makes world’s fastest computers run even faster.
Putting a charge in plastics: Lynn Loo’s research could help lead to new area of low-cost, flexible devices.
The lives of lizards: Professors team up to give lizards their day in the sun.
New look into a bird’s brain: High-resolution scans show ivory-billed woodpecker from the inside.
Odessa’s crater: Research scientist David Littlefield’s calculations detail the crater’s creation.
Summer mental: Grants allow some faculty members to spend their break in research mode
Where we’re from: Anthropologist John Kappelman digs into the past to find human roots
Who was first?: Archeologist Michael Collins unravels prevailing theory of peopling of the Americas.
Soccer bots: Peter Stone's artificial intelligence research with teams of soccer-playing robot dogs today could lead to self-driving cars in 20 years.

A “buy” rating on favors: Business professors show that one good turn elicits better stock ratings from analysts.

Writing in the stone: Geoscience undergraduate wins award for academic excellence.
Apprentice scientists: High school grads experiment with science at the Applied Research Labs.
Color of a different frog: Student researcher discovers double protection for copycat frog.
Charting the pathway: Student-designed database digs deep into mouse’s cellular communications.
Fast track to space: Satellites, designed and built by students, are headed for orbit.
That Eureka moment: The university’s EUREKA Web tool makes connections for discovery.
Engineering student wins group’s engineers award: If motorists in places where winter strikes hard find it easier to start their cars, they might have a University of Texas at Austin graduate student to thank.

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