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Visualizing Science 2017: Finding the Hidden Beauty in College Research
Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within scholarly research.
Eyewitness to a Cosmic Car Wreck
What is the sound of two neutron stars colliding over 1 billion light years away?
Quanta Magazine
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
Katherine Freese, The Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics Director, is featured in this list of 19 Women Leading Math and Physics
Global Citizen
17 Famous Female Scientists Who Helped Change the World
Katherine Freese, Director of the Weinberg Institute, is among the 17 featured.
Testing General Relativity
Scientists from UT Austin once traveled to the Sahara Desert to observe a rare eclipse and used computers to model ripples in space and time unleashed by the mergers of black holes
Can General Relativity, at 100, Withstand Some Holes?
Answering some of the biggest questions in astrophysics—for example, about black holes and the origin of the universe—might require overhauling general relativity.
