Point of Discovery

Climate change, vaccinations, evolution. Scientists sometimes struggle to get their message across to non-scientists. On... Read more

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be able to follow a specific diet or exercise plan and others fail? The a... Read more

Virtually everyone contracts RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) as a child, but few people have even heard of it. It’s ac... Read more

Why do so many first-year students struggle in college? Who is most likely to fail? And what can professors and staff do... Read more

What if people who lost a particular brain function—say, an Alzheimer's patient who can no longer make new memories—had ... Read more

We recently invited three leaders in science and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin to talk about the lack... Read more

We’re celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. Join us as we tour the cosmos, from the microscopic to th... Read more

Jonathan Sessler was a college student when he was first diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Fortunately, he was also a c... Read more

Astronomers have long been able to watch the universe’s blockbuster special effects unfold in dazzling 3D Technicolor. B... Read more

The first week of October is like a science-lover’s World Series: Each year, the spotlight falls on high-impact science,... Read more

One thing that sets humans apart from even the smartest of artificially intelligent machines is the ability to understan... Read more

What’s it like for a scientist to work as an advisor on a major Hollywood film? In this first of a two-part conversation... Read more

We know absolutely nothing about roughly 80 percent of the different types of life on Earth. Biologist David Hillis aims... Read more

Kristen Grauman, professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, and her team have taught an artific... Read more

Forty years ago, when James Allison had just gotten his PhD in biochemistry, he was intrigued by this far-out idea that ... Read more

The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math – have real work to do in terms of diversity. Right now, wom... Read more

Millions of children in the U.S. play a vital, but often overlooked, role in their families. These children of immigrant... Read more

Daily life has changed for many of us due to the coronavirus pandemic. During this unusual time, when it’s harder to con... Read more

Scientists often talk about the people who mentored them, and the students and postdocs they supervise, in ways that sou... Read more

If you've been listening to our podcast for a while, you probably have noticed that we haven't had a new episode for a f... Read more