Like other sea urchins, they have an amazing feeding structure called Aristotle’s lantern. It contains five teeth that allow the urchin to scrape and chew food. Atlantic purple sea urchins are ...

If you want to understand Texas, you can begin with a map, but you learn a lot more by getting out onto the land itself. A new PBS series pairs “The Daytripper” host, Chet Garner, with scientists from ...

There was a disturbance in the force for Texas cities and counties this legislative session. A bill dubbed the Death Star Bill — after the moon-sized technological terrors of Star Wars fame — passed ...

Texas lawmakers just wrapped up the legislative session after thousands of hours of debating over thousands of bills — all in just 140 days. And as you may or may not know, the state’s lawmakers meet ...

In a Republican primary upset, Bo French, a former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, defeated incumbent Jim Wright for a seat on the Railroad Commission. This despite Wright’s backing from ...

Texas leads the nation in population growth, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Lone Star State is now home to 30 million people, adding roughly half a million new residents since ...

Gov. Greg Abbott is betting that his plan to lower property taxes could help him become the longest-serving governor in the state. Abbott kicked off his third reelection campaign for governor over the ...

Here are the stories on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. Texas 2026 primary early voting rules and what to know before heading to the polls Early voting for Texas’ March 3 primary is underway, and voters ...

Wizzie Brown, a program specialist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and our go-to insect expert, is helping answer questions from kids about bugs. Is a bug the same thing as an insect?

College student Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program. Like many Chinese-American students before her, she signed up, hoping to connect with her culture. But ...

On Sunday, Bo French, the Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a series of xenophobic social media posts taking aim at students of color celebrating at the University of Texas ...

The fight over a new border wall in the Big Bend region isn’t just between residents and the Trump administration anymore. Increasingly, it’s neighbor against neighbor. According to reporting from ...