Science
The Sky Theater at the University of North Texas is offering families the chance to escape the heat this summer, with a new planetarium show each Friday in July.
The Department of Energy has announced that UNT is one of only nine universities to receive a research project grant to support innovation and development of clean coal technologies.
Thanks to the research of two UNT faculty members, users will now have access to interactive visualizations that offer better ways to explore the content of these historical newspapers than typing words into a search engine.
In 1769, British Capt. James Cook led an expedition to calculate the earth's distance from the sun. Nearly 250 years later a team from UNT will attempt to complete the experiment on June 5.
Amy Schade was one of 61 students selected nationally for the summer research program.
Recently created database of materials allowed for discovery of new class of topological insulators.
Jennifer Williams, a first-year graduate student at UNT, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to conduct research in engineering, a career she decided to pursue when she was an elementary school student.
Visitors will be able to see a 250-pound fossil of the head of the prehistoric Xiphactinus Audex fish, a menacing predator that lived between 100 and 65 million years ago.
Findings to be published in Physical Review of Letters may facilitate adoption of electric cars.
