The information apps collect is extremely powerful because it enables technology to help make our lives better, safer, healthier, and — especially in times like we’ve experienced over the past year — more socially connected. For instance, apps have helped contact tracers with COVID-19 response.

Heat waves are to blame for more deaths in the U.S. than any other type of severe weather, and they're becoming more frequent and unpredictable due to humans-driven climate alterations. Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Dev Niyogi interviews with Texas Public Radio about this topic.

Planet Texas 2050 is teaming up with the Drag Audio on a new environmental podcast that explores topics related to climate change, including everything from flooding to renewable energy. The podcast will feature expertise and interviews with Planet Texas 2050 researchers.

Nursing associate professor Karen Johnson and assistant professor Whitney Thurman explain why they think the CDC was too quick to lift masking requirements post-vaccine.

A new University of Texas at Austin and City of Austin project will help Austinites to beat the heat.

The University of Texas at Austin, the city of Austin and the neighborhood group Go Austin/Vamos Austin are working to create heat maps for the entire city with the goal of coming up with cooling solutions for the places that suffer the most.

The University of Texas at Austin is teaming up with the City of Austin to create heat maps for the entire city, working to identify places most at risk and then come up with cooling solutions.

For those reopening their businesses after the pandemic, water system officials say you should flush your pipes. Cockrell School of Engineering Professor and Planet Texas 2050 researcher Mary Jo Kirisits explains why.

Classics Professor and Planet Texas 2050 organizing committee member Adam Rabinowitz is among several University of Texas at Austin professors granted the 2020-2021 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. Hear from him and others what makes a great teacher.

UT researchers took the state-of-the-art Vocus "Sniffer" on the road across Central Texas to find out whether some people are at greater risk than others of breathing in polluted air.