New plastic has rigid and stretchy sections inspired by living things.

The winners of our most recent Visualizing Science contest include an image related to “smart” material research, simulations of a meeting between a neutron star and a black hole and the connection between two wildly different areas of mathematics.

Carlos Baiz, associate professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation.

Can complex data be hidden inside chemical structures?

Learn more about Devleena Samanta's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Chemistry in fall 2021 and what her research focuses on.

Clean energy research from UT Austin scientists holds disruptive potential. It comes just as new technologies are needed most.

Biophysicist Dave Thirumalai and his team developed a computer model that helps explain how certain kinds of RNA molecules can clump together in a way that is correlated with neurological disorders

Jonathan Sessler of UT Austin joins 22 others on the College of Natural Sciences faculty who have been elected to the American Academy.

Chemists and physicists are making steady progress on developing new materials that may prove key for our future energy needs.

For Zachariah Page's research in materials chemistry, he has been selected as a 2022 Cottrell Scholar.