Discovery

University’s H2I Lab Pushes for Standardized Floodplain Tracking After Texas Mapping Work

by | Nov 24, 2025
Civil engineering assistant professor Adnan Rajib, whose lab created what UT Arlington calls the first global estimate of floodplain loss in 2023 and later built real-time maps of July’s deadly Hill Country floods, leads new research proposing fixes for inconsistent floodplain tracking.
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North Texas’ Topaz Labs Partners with Texas A&M, Stanford, CalTech, and Others on Use of Agentic AI for Photo Editing & Restoration
by | Oct 21, 2025
The system's open-source framework integrates more than 50 specialized AI models to autonomously analyze, plan, and restore images, "mirroring the decision-making process of a professional editor."
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Same-Day 3D Printing for ‘Gold-Standard’ Dental Restorations? UT Dallas Breakthrough Makes It Possible
by | Oct 16, 2025
Permanent crowns custom printed in all-ceramic zirconia could soon be a chair-side reality for dental patients, thanks to University of Texas at Dallas researchers. Backed by a $550,000 National Science Foundation grant, the team is working to commercialize the technology.
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Late-Night Snacking? UT Southwestern Researchers Pinpoint Brain Cells That May Be Driving It
by | Oct 15, 2025
Researchers at UTSW identified a set of neurons in the "brain's timekeeper" that may drive nighttime snacking—and in mice, control up to 7% of body weight. The discovery could pave the way for new weight-loss strategies.
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UT Dallas Researchers ‘Barcode’ Engineered Cells with Patent-Pending Tech to Protect Biotech IP

by | Sep 27, 2025
The UTD team’s approach adapts a chip-security technique to biology. The breakthrough gives biotech companies a new way to prevent costly misidentification and protect intellectual property.
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TCU Student Uncovers Fashion’s Hidden Costs—And Designs for the Moon
by | Sep 26, 2025
In a published study, Adelaide Lovett traced how synthetic fibers shed microplastics that can end up in human organs. She also co-designed astronaut gear to guard against lunar dust—a project that earned a NASA innovation award.
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Tarleton State Opens $80M Health Professions Building to Tackle Healthcare Gaps
by | Sep 26, 2025
In Stephenville—about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth—the new facility adds labs, research space, and clinical classrooms as part of a broader push to expand rural healthcare education across Texas.
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UT Southwestern Wins $12M NCI ‘SPORE’ for Liver Cancer
by | Sep 18, 2025
UT Southwestern in Dallas will lead three liver cancer projects on prevention, recurrence, and immunotherapy. It joins Mayo Clinic and MD Anderson as a national NCI SPORE site, a program that moves discoveries into clinical trials.
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UTSW Molecular Biologist Wins Prestigious Columbia Prize for Work on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

by | Sep 9, 2025
Eric Olson has spent decades dedicated to what he calls “the biggest prize of all”: a cure for the devastating disease. Nearly half of the scientists awarded Columbia’s Horwitz Prize over the past 58 years went on to win a Nobel, UTSW said.
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NIH Taps UT Southwestern Medical Center for $23M North Texas Alzheimer’s Disease Research Hub
by | Sep 3, 2025
The new federal Alzheimer's hub joins an elite network of 37 centers nationwide. Scientists from UT Southwestern, UT Arlington, and UT Dallas will decode dementia by exploring hypertension's role, analyzing voice patterns with AI, and creating virtual patient models.
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UTA Engineer Develops Remote Radar to Detect Drone Failures, No Sensors Required
by | Aug 29, 2025
UTA’s Dianqi Han has developed a remote system that uses millimeter-wave radar to spot signs of hardware trouble—like damaged propellers—without modifying the drone itself.
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Low-Altitude Weather Sensor Network Launches in North Texas
by | Aug 27, 2025
TruWeather Solutions said the initiative deployed across Hillwood's AllianceTexas will support the safe and reliable growth of next-gen transportation technologies, ranging from drone delivery to autonomous trucking and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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SMU-Led Team Develops Nanomaterial to Withstand 1,000°C Heat—But 3D Print at Room Temperature

by | Aug 24, 2025
The breakthrough could impact industries from aerospace to energy. “This new method can revolutionize the material science field,” says lead researcher Amin Salehi-Khojin.
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UNT Ph.D. Grad Gives $2M to Launch Data Science Innovation Lab
by | Aug 23, 2025
Broadcom executive Vikas Sinha and his wife, Anuradha, have invested more than $5 million in UNT’s data science program, aiming to fuel opportunity in a field “at the heart of the job market.”
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Organoids without blood vessels can't grow larger than sesame seeds—about 3 millimeters—before dying from lack of oxygen and nutrients. UNT and Stanford researchers say they've solved this problem. Seeds pictured above are not to scale. [Image: Pinchai Puntong/istockphoto]
First Mini Hearts and Livers With Working Blood Vessels Grown in Lab, UNT-Stanford Team Reports
by | Aug 21, 2025
Scientists at at the University of North Texas and Stanford Medicine have created tiny artificial organs called organoids with fully formed blood vessel networks. The stem cell-based breakthrough could transform drug testing and disease research while reducing the need for animal models—and expand possibilities for regenerative medicine.
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Colossal Biosciences Names Australian De‑Extinction Scientist as Its Chief Biology Officer
by | Aug 20, 2025
Andrew Pask is known for his expertise in de-extinction science, developmental genetics, and conservation technologies. He leads the Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research Lab (TIGGR) at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
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