Public outreach and engagement We build bridges between our community and science. Our offerings include newer offerings like the Texas Science Festival, plus sites open to visitors year-round like ...

What’s Best about ATX? Named by WalletHub the best college town in America in 2025, Austin offers it all: natural beauty, with parks, hike and bike trails and legendary swimming holes; enough concerts ...

UT Austin alumna Maggie Miller, whose research focuses on geometric topology in three to five dimensions, was awarded a prize recognizing women in mathematics. Here are a handful of ways that members ...

Enjoy FREE museum admission all day during H-E-B Free Fourth Sundays, held the fourth Sunday of every month. Explore the story of life in the natural world in Texas from the formation of our planet, ...

Cool off this July with family-friendly Ice Age activities, from fossil exploration and story time to art-making and exploration of the museum’s new hands-on Discovery Center. Settle in for a story ...

Join in for live views of several targets from the dark skies at McDonald Observatory. Your hosts will show you views from a camera attached to a research-grade 16" telescope at the Frank N. Bash ...

Two UT Austin physicists were part of a collaboration that won the Breakthrough Prize for work at the Large Hadron Collider.

Seagrasses store a lot of carbon in their tissues, making them a potential counterweight to rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Seagrasses are more efficient at storing carbon in the soil or sediment, ...