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AUSTIN, Texas — Four faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the

AUSTIN, Texas — A technological leap sits on the horizon, with exciting capabilities like quantum computing, soft robotics and more coming down the pike.

Ink laced with molecules that can store data has been used to write a letter containing a hidden, encoded message – the encryption key to unlock a text file of the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Kickstart: UT Austin borrows from Austen for its research UT Austin borrows from Austen for its research It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single researcher in possession of a good finding, must be in want of a way to publicize it. So why not use a good Jane Austen quote? Not the one above, shamelessly tweaked from Pride & Prejudice, but instead a group from the University of Texas at Austin (of course) turned to a lesser-known work, Mansfield Park, to show off how it could embe...

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 E-Mail IMAGE: This image shows a quote from Jane Austens Mansfield Park written in oligourethanes. view more  Credit: Sarah Moor Using a novel molecular-data-storage technique, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have encoded a quote from Jane Austens classic novel Mansfield Park in a series of oligomers, which a third party could read back without prior knowledge of the structures that encoded the passage. The findings, published April 21st in the journal Cell Reports ...