Life & Arts
UT lab studies gender-bending lizard mating
All-female Whiptail species make clones to sustain life
In a room within the musky, dimly-lit basement of the J.T. Patterson Laboratories Building, rows of cages containing female Desert Grassland Whiptails line the walls. No males are present, because no males exist.…
Ransom Center houses early photography, literature
Curator: Exhibits done in a way not to overwhelm
Austin photographer Kay Denton captured the spontaneity of children playing outside a greenhouse window in a blurry, 1996 chocolate-toned print using the archaic process of albumen silver prints, the most common printing process before traditional black and white.…
Biology student blogs from deserted island
Cut off from world, two grad students record ant research
Growing up, I remember playing a game where someone asks you what you would bring with you if you were traveling to a deserted island. Typical responses were toys and games of various sorts, maybe some music or perhaps a good friend.…
