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The 3-Minute Thesis competition challenges grad students to ditch the jargon, simplify the science, and captivate a nonspecialist audience—with only one slide and a ticking clock.

Natural gas has played a key role in reducing emissions and supporting renewable energy, but its continued use as a "bridge fuel" raises concerns about long-term climate impacts, especially due to methane leaks and potential carbon lock-in. Its future depends on context-specific policies, decarbonization incentives, and advances in carbon capture technologies.

The university has created a unique center to consolidate the efforts of more than 60 researchers working across the hydrogen value chain, including production, storage, transportation, and utilization.

Explore how the industry is measuring and reporting carbon intensity, the strategies being employed to reduce it, from operational efficiencies and electrification to cutting flaring, and the collaborative initiatives driving progress.

Underground hydrogen storage is emerging as a vital element in the transition to a low-carbon hydrogen economy, offering a way to balance renewable energy supply. Its success depends on more than storage space—it requires a comprehensive understanding of geochemical, geomechanical, microbial, and economic factors.

The USGS has assessed that the Los Angeles Basin holds 61 million bbl of technically recoverable oil and 240 Bcf of gas still undiscovered.

The project will focus on converting natural gas into cleaner, more economically viable turquoise hydrogen in southwest Virginia from reserves including the Marcellus Shale and the Appalachian Basin.

With water management poised to be the defining challenge of the next decade for the Permian Basin, companies that fail to adapt may find their production growth throttled not by a lack of oil, but by an excess of water.

UT Austin students Nadia Mouedden and Deena Elhossary taught CO2 injection and storage to students using simple household materials during the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Divya Tyagi refined a century-old aerodynamic problem by Hermann Glauert, making it simpler and more practical for wind turbine design.