UT Austin theorist Allan MacDonald shares the 2026 Kavli Prize for twistronics — the discovery that a 1.1° twist in graphene can create superconductivity and other exotic states.

TPWD says a vendor‑related breach may have exposed driver’s license and passport details for more than 3 million hunting and fishing license customers. The agency is offering one year of free credit monitoring.

A $3.9M TSIF grant will back Schunk Xycarb's Georgetown expansion, which the state says will unlock more than $42M in investment and add roughly 25 jobs.

UT Austin and MD Anderson launched a cross‑campus accelerator funding five projects to speed protein therapies, AI and surgical robotics into patient care.

UT Austin researchers found Gulf Coast coal and ash contain large rare‑earth inventories on paper, but low per‑ton value and tricky extraction keep the economics tight. Pilot projects and co‑products may be the only realistic path to profit.

UT Austin will lead the NNME South node, convening 104 partners and industry-backed training to prepare technicians and engineers for thousands of chip jobs across 10 states.

Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace will deliver four propulsive drones to the Moon’s south pole under a $75M JPL subcontract, stepping into NASA's Moon Base plans.

UT Austin researchers are installing ultrasonic sensors and refining seismic models to spot canister damage before it spreads as Texas invests $350M in advanced nuclear.

HydroGraph’s HGRAF shares swung from $0.15 to $8.37 as the company raised C$30M and opened an Austin HQ — even though fiscal‑2025 revenue was just $43,051.

A Dallas Fed survey finds two-thirds of Texas companies use AI; a small share say it lowered their need for workers.

A Baylor‑led consortium's AllFaith Benchmark finds major language models often omit religious perspectives in ethics answers and show conversion biases. The work is open‑sourced for developers and scholars.

ACC and Central Texas school districts have launched a healthcare academy that lets ninth-graders earn industry credentials and stack them toward ACC degrees. The program is backed by more than $10 million in grants.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Netflix, alleging the streamer secretly harvested Texans’ data — including kids’ viewing logs — and shared it with ad-tech and data brokers.