/science Science en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Sun, 04 May 2025 00:31:29 GMT /politics/2025-05-03/elon-musk-texas-spacex-city-starbase-vote-election-results A small group of mostly SpaceX employees voted to incorporate the area around the SpaceX rocket testing and launch site near Brownsville as the City of Starbase. Sun, 04 May 2025 00:31:29 GMT /politics/2025-05-03/elon-musk-texas-spacex-city-starbase-vote-election-results Lauren McGaughy, Berenice Garcia /science/2025-04-17/university-of-texas-austin-nih-grants-funding-cuts The Trump administration has been slashing funding for a federal agency that supports biomedical research across the U.S. UT Austin professors say funding from the National Institutes of Health is essential for running their labs. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:03:00 GMT /science/2025-04-17/university-of-texas-austin-nih-grants-funding-cuts Becky Fogel, Olivia Aldridge /science/2025-04-08/a-texas-biotech-company-says-it-bred-three-pups-with-traits-of-extinct-dire-wolf Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:35:34 GMT /science/2025-04-08/a-texas-biotech-company-says-it-bred-three-pups-with-traits-of-extinct-dire-wolf Joe Hernandez, Rob Stein /science/2025-03-19/firefly-aerospace-cedar-park-tx-moon-robot-sunset-lunar-lander The Cedar Park company's robot spent 14 days on the moon, the equivalent of one lunar day. Firefly says it's the longest commercial mission on the moon to date. Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:12:51 GMT /science/2025-03-19/firefly-aerospace-cedar-park-tx-moon-robot-sunset-lunar-lander Kailey Hunt /science/2025-03-14/firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-lunar-lander-total-solar-eclipse The event marks the first time a commercial company has been able to actively operate on the moon and observe a total solar eclipse. Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:00:25 GMT /science/2025-03-14/firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-lunar-lander-total-solar-eclipse Kailey Hunt /science/2025-03-03/firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-lunar-landing-moon-cedar-park-tx The spacecraft will spend the next couple weeks helping NASA run science experiments on the lunar surface. Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:10:46 GMT /science/2025-03-03/firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-lunar-landing-moon-cedar-park-tx Kailey Hunt /business/2025-02-13/firefly-aerospace-cedar-park-tx-texas-space-commission-lunar-landing The Cedar Park company announced this week that it got an $8.2 million grant from the state to expand its spacecraft manufacturing capabilities. It currently has a lunar vehicle on its way to the moon. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:01:00 GMT /business/2025-02-13/firefly-aerospace-cedar-park-tx-texas-space-commission-lunar-landing Kailey Hunt /science/2025-02-12/research-nih-federal-funding-university-of-texas-austin A new policy for how the National Institutes of Health will reimburse overhead costs associated with research grants could result in the loss of significant funding at institutions like UT Austin. Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:26:36 GMT /science/2025-02-12/research-nih-federal-funding-university-of-texas-austin Olivia Aldridge /science/2024-12-12/university-of-texas-research-artificial-intelligence-sound-images Different senses, from sight to sound, help us establish our sense of place. With that in mind, researchers wanted to find out: Can artificial intelligence translate the sounds of a country road or a bustling city into accurate images of those places? Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:01:00 GMT /science/2024-12-12/university-of-texas-research-artificial-intelligence-sound-images Becky Fogel /energy-environment/2024-11-14/stargazers-can-see-the-final-supermoon-of-the-year-this-weekend The next supermoon � which appears larger and brighter than a regular full moon due to its proximity to Earth � will not be visible for nearly a year. Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:43:38 GMT /energy-environment/2024-11-14/stargazers-can-see-the-final-supermoon-of-the-year-this-weekend Chandelis Duster