The USS Gravely, a Navy destroyer, is making its way from Yorktown, Va. toward the waters off the Texas coast. The Gravely is a massive ship, outfitted with sophisticated radar and communication ...
It seems that every year, we hear how college is becoming more and more expensive. For the school year that just started in August, full-time students at the University of Texas at El Paso are paying ...
Wizzie Brown, an insect specialist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, says springtails are pests that you’ll usually see outside. But because they like moist places, seeing springtails ...
They dot strip malls throughout the state: storefronts offering up cash quick, no credit check required. Payday lending is big business, estimated to be a $5.8 billion industry just in Texas alone.
This story starts off like many good stories do: two men walked into a bar. Now, we have to expand it a little, two men walked into a bar in San Antonio fifty years ago. Okay, it was actually a ...
Who were the first peoples to inhabit Texas? It’s often the case that research yields more questions than answers. But now, there might actually be some answers lurking in a thin body of water that ...
Houston Mayor John Whitmire’s political party of more than five decades admonished him on Sunday — barring the lifelong Democrat from receiving its endorsement in the future, according to multiple ...
One of this year’s most anticipated books comes from a name better known for film. Jane Schoenbrun is the filmmaker behind critically acclaimed, genre-bending movies like “I Saw the TV Glow” and ...
Austin-based Apptronik makes robots that it hopes businesses will use in manufacturing, on the warehouse floor and in other places where human arms and legs are an asset. But robots, the company says, ...
Whether TikTok is a harmless time waster or a sneaky surveillance mechanism depends on who you ask – and it’s a question that members of Congress are currently wrestling over. Last week, TikTok CEO ...
Libraries are quiet places, which allows visitors to the Julia Ideson Building of the Houston Public Library to occasionally hear the distant strains of a violin playing a romantic Strauss waltz. The ...
In the early 1950s, the threat of nuclear war and Communism cast shadows over much of the western hemisphere. And for a brief time, they darkened the pastures and hills of Central Texas more than ...