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Animal languages more than grunts

Multiple media outlets around the world have covered a study led by Arik Kershenbaum, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at UT, which finds that the calls of many animals, from whales to wolves, might contain more language-like structure than previously thought. The study raises new questions about the

Microbes thrive below Antarctic ice. A hint of life elsewhere in solar system?

Multiple news outlets have featured the research of microbiology assistant professor Jill Mikucki. She was part of a team that examined waters and sediments from a shallow lake deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet and found the extreme environment supports microbial ecosystems. The National Science Foundation-funded research has implications for life in other extreme environments,