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Hank Schyma: Southern Backtones Singer Is Fearless Tornado Chaser

If you saw the dramatic footage out of North Texas Tuesday, hopefully from the safety of your living room or gathered around a TV at work, you know that weather events like those tornadoes can make pretty compelling television. And someone has to head straight into those storms to film all that vide ... More >>

Reality Bites: MonsterQuest

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Admittedly, the concept of MonsterQuest initially struck me as woefully similar to that of...certain other reality shows, in that I was sure we'd be following around a bunch of yahoos using dubi ... More >>

Galveston's Red Tide Appears to Have Dissipated, Oysters Recovering

Photo by mintprofusionOysters affected by red tide are toxic to humans.​On January 27, two small portions of Texas Gulf waters were conditionally opened to shellfish harvesting after a red tide epidemic forced the indefinite closure of oyster season in October. San Antonio and Espiritu Santo ... More >>

Update: Rough Weather, Tornados Rolling Through Houston, Affecting Airports

As has been mentioned by weather forecasters in recent days, some pretty rough weather is passing through Houston this morning as part of a cold front. The storms are spanning high winds, torrential rain (some areas could receive up to five inches), flash flooding and potential tornadoes. According ... More >>

Guadalupe Molina, Jr., Bayou Body Count No. 109

HPDConrad Calderas is a wanted man​An argument at a party turned deadly early Sunday morning, and police are looking for the shooter. Guadalupe Molina, Jr., was shot once in the chest and died after an argument at a party in the northwest neighborhood of the 6300 block of Thornwell about 1:30 ... More >>

Intelligent Design Tries Again In Texas, Group Says

Evolution in the cross-hairs​Texas might be getting ready to fill its science textbooks with anti-evolution material, critics are warning. The State Board of Education may soon take another step in its effort to adopt material that pushes Intelligent Design, they say. "Two years ago State Bo ... More >>

48th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival

NASA's Astronomy Picture Of The Day: 2010's Ten Best

For 15 years now, NASA has been putting out an Astronomy Picture of the Day, picking whatever hits their fancy from the archives or new stuff coming in from up above. Here are ten of the best they posted this year. 10. Atlantis takes off Photos courtesy NASA​In the early morning hours of Jul ... More >>

The Littlest People

There are maybe 200 primordial dwarfs in the world, and Houstonian Sienna Bernal is one of them. She's also trying to be a regular 11-year-old girl.

"Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship"

See artifacts from a storied pirate ship

The Institute For Creation Research Gets Slammed, Rejected By Federal Judge

Why hast thou forsaken me?​The Institution for Creation Research was a California-based school that moved to the Dallas area three years ago.They applied to Texas' Higher Education Coordinating Board for certification to give master's degrees in science; the HECB reviewed their curriculum and turn ... More >>

Big Bite Nite

Develop your palate at HMNS

NASA Had Proof Of Water On The Moon Sitting In Their Storage Closet

​NASA famously bombed the moon last year in a desperate attempt to prove there's water on it. While water was indeed discovered, we have yet to hear any reliable figures on collateral damage to the affected areas or the native population.It turns out, instead of almost triggering a Earth-Moon war ... More >>

"Magic: The Science of Wonder"

Do we have any volunteers from the audience?

The Planets: An HD Odyssey

The Symphony joins NASA for a match made in Houston

Cosmic Celluloid: 2001: A Space Odyssey

One small step for computer-kind, one hell of a mess for man

Trey McIntyre Project

The former Houston Ballet choreographic associate shifts shape

Between the Folds

Physics, math and art - all from one sheet of paper

Aurora Picture Show Video Salon

Teenage filmmaker Emily Hagins shares her zombie-movie experience

Keith Carter: "Unseen & Rediscovered"

I get by with a little help from...the Hubble Space Telescope

David Eagleman

It isn't every day that you invent a new school of philosophy

Aggies Get Themselves A Child Prodigy

Child prodigies are a delicate bunch, as evidenced by this girl, and a nine-year-old Houston boy is in that group.He's Adam Atanas and he recently finished a semester of physics classes at Texas A&M. "It's very easy to see them as little circus monkeys and they're not," says Dr. David Toback ... More >>

“Genghis Khan”

History’s bad boy goes on display

Tell NASA Where You Want Hubble to Point

Hot on the heels of a new report from the Baker Institute suggesting NASA concentrate on improving conditions here on Earth and postpone all this "outer space" foolishness, NASA has come up with yet another neat little thing to help reignite enthusiasm for what it does. We say "yet another" in refe ... More >>

Local Scientists Say The Superbugs Are Coming To Get Us

Listen up people - we have run out of options. At least when we come to superbugs, if University of Texas Medical School researchers Dr. Barbara E. Murray and Dr. Cesar Ariasare to be believed. The two study infectious diseases for a living, so they should know. Their article in a recent New England ... More >>

Evolution Debate Settled By A&M, To A Degree

There's less than a week to go before the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design showdown  in Austin, and scientists at Texas A&M - the Aggies - have dropped a bombshell. They've proven evolution exists. Kind of.Aggie researcher and assistant professor Katy Kao has reportedly developed "the first ... More >>

“Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation” Behind-the-Scenes Tour

Web exclusive!

TAKS Test Made Slightly Less Non-Sensical, Teachers Say

“The Great Indoors”

Artist Aurora Robson is in love with string theory

“Decking the Path to Blessedness”

Barry Stone places the stars in front of your eyes

Behind the Scenes: HMNS Hall of Paleontology

Get the inside scoop on dinos

Dark Matter: Five Gothic Tales of Horror

Be prepared to be afraid

Head Scratcher

Hapgood tries to thrill as it educates, but comes up short

Got Your Health

How much more can you cut?

Hamer Time

This unconventional comedic drama from Norway might be just the ticket

Moonstruck

Dave Criswell dreams of living on the moon. He has a plan for colonization. Other scientists say his idea is 100 years too early. But he's ready now.

Letters

Designer Labels, Screwed for Life, Heavy on the Crab

Clone Wars

In the rousing 6th Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger is not the only one who has been copied

Pick a Pepper

Diana Ramos, chef and co-owner of Habanero Blue

Miller's Crossing

Frozen, cloned or retooled, Miller Quarles plans to live forever. But time is running out.

Telling Stories

One economist finds moving away from "hard" truth may lead to a greater truth

Happy Daze

Nebula conjures up memories of loud Les Pauls, long hair and weed

Immune to Reason

Hundreds of thousands of Texas children, including 250,000 newborn babies, are routinely vaccinated against hepatits B each year. Why? Good question.

Adding It All Up

What does it really mean to pass the TAAS?

The Dinosaur Hunters

Press Picks

The Wet Look

Waterworld is a whirlpool of dazzling action, and muddled ideas

Dead in the water

Bothered by shrinking catches, growing regulations and a sense of frustration, Galveston Bay's shrimpers say that they, not the shrimp, are the endangered species.

Aggie Alchemy

John Bockris was known around Texas A&M as a chemist interested in "weird science." Joe Champion gave him all he could handle.