Cockrell School of Engineering

This new gel device can easily turn hot air into drinking water.

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering have made a powerful nanomotor.

An international team led by researchers has developed 6G components that will allow future devices to achieve increased speeds necessary for such a technological jump.

More than a third of the world's population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a solution that could help people in these areas access clean drinking water.

A moment's thought, please, for John B. Goodenough – the professor of engineering who won a Nobel Prize for development...

Dust is a common fact of life, and it's more than just a daily nuisance—it can get into machinery and equipment, causing loss of efficiency or breakdowns.

As artificial intelligence and machine learning are deployed more widely and consequentially across healthcare and elsewhere, "it is vital that we address safety, security and equity concerns."

Researchers have created a new type of fiber that can perform like a muscle actuator, in many ways better than other options that exist today. And, most importantly, these muscle-like fibers are simple to make and recycle.

Researchers in Texas have created an enzyme variant that can break down plastics that would typically take hundreds of years to dissolve in a matter of hours or days.

New applications in energy, defense and telecommunications could receive a boost after a team from The University of Texas at Austin created a new type of "nanocrystal gel"—a gel composed of tiny nanocrystals each 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair that are linked together into an organized network.

The effect of urbanization on temperature is relatively well-known: cities are often measurably warmer than their surrounding rural areas. This is called the urban heat island effect. What fewer people know is that the urban heat island has a twin counterpart with similarly important consequences: the urban precipitation anomaly, where the presence of urban development measurably affects the amount of rainfall in…

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking new method for keeping dust from sticking to surfaces. The technology could revolutionize space exploration, protect equipment on Earth and make our lives easier. Read more.

Developing standards on how robots interact with the public can further bolster the nascent industry of autonomous robots

Bioengineers have developed a unique mattress and pillow system that uses heating and cooling to tell the body it is time to go to sleep.

Motors are everywhere in our day-to-day lives—from cars to washing machines. A futuristic scientific field is working on tiny motors that could power a network of nanomachines and replace some of the power sources we use in devices today.

Mimicking the human body, specifically the actuators that control muscle movement, is of immense interest around the globe. In recent years, it has led to many innovations to improve robotics, prosthetic limbs and more, but creating these actuators typically involves complex processes, with expensive and hard-to-find materials. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State University have created…

More than a third of the world's population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a solution that could help people in these areas access clean drinking water.

The United States will get only partially toward deep reductions in greenhouse gasses with the policy tools currently available even in the scenario most favorable politically to decarbonization. That's the finding of a recent study published in Energy Policy by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that looked at the political feasibility of deep decarbonization in the…

New applications in energy, defense and telecommunications could receive a boost after a team created a new type of 'nanocrystal gel' -- a gel composed of tiny nanocrystals each 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair that are linked together into an organized network.

A newly engineered type of soil can capture water out of thin air to keep plants hydrated and manage controlled release of fertilizer for a constant supply of nutrients.