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Found in everything from space shuttles to dental fillings, composite materials have thoroughly infiltrated modern society. But their potential is still greatly untapped, offering researchers ample opportunity for discovery.
Within the particle showers created at the Large Hadron Collider, answers to some of the universe’s mysteries are waiting.
Model systems like pigeons can help illuminate our own evolutionary and genomic history.
UT Arlington's tiny windmills are bringing renewable energy to a whole new scale.
The stability of our highways, pipelines, and even manholes is reaching a breaking point.
Scientists believe they have discovered a subatomic particle that is crucial to understanding the universe.
UT Arlington researchers unlock clues to the human body’s most mysterious and complex organ.
UT Arlington researchers probe the hidden world of microbes in search of renewable energy sources.
Wounded soldiers are benefiting from Robert Gatchel’s program that combines physical rehabilitation with treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tiny sensors implanted in the body show promise in combating acid reflux disease, pain and other health problems.
Nanotechnology researchers pursue hybrid silicon chips with life-saving potential.
Biomedical engineers combat diseases with procedures that are painless to patients.
Turns out, human and water flea parents have something in common: Both understand the importance of sacrifice.
Biology Assistant Professor Matthew Walsh is studying a phenomenon known as “phenotypic plasticity,” an organism’s ability to change its own and its offspring’s trait expressions or physical characteristics in response to external factors (e.g., predatory threat). He recently found that, contrary to the prevailing theory, water fleas can either strengthen their own fitness and survival or do something to strengthen that of future generations—but not both.
Dr. Walsh believes this finding is especially important given the increasing threats to biodiversity globally: “Plasticity is widespread across the tree of life,” he says. “These non-genetic responses to environmental signals may represent a key mechanism that allows organisms to persist in the face of ongoing climate change.”
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Links among social networking data could uncover critical safety information
Study shows after-hours work emails provoke anger, disrupt personal lives in employees
