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Here’s how eukaryotes might have evolved from simpler life forms

Winter Storm Uri caused damage and hardship across the state of Texas, and at the Port Aransas campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the work to recover from it included rehabilitating a record number of sea turtles threatened by the cold weather.

Learn about Jessica O'Connell's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Marine Science and what her research focuses on.

The faculty member who helped envision a changed the tree of life received the award.

A compilation from our previous episodes that we hope will help you find some solace right now: in rediscovering life, the people we're closest with and the universe.

Plastic pollution has contaminated every continent on Earth, and some of the smallest plastic particles, called nurdles, are among the most insidious.

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You can swim, but you can't hide.

When SeaWorld San Antonio unveiled and opened Turtle Reef™, featuring non-releasable sea turtles in a first-of-its-kind habitat, part of the focus was on its partnership with The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, Texas.

They were found living in the extremely hot, deep-sea sediments located in the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California