The Sealy & Smith Foundation's gift is the largest in UTMB history, funding new catheterization labs and a Galveston heart study tracking 10,000 residents.

Galveston County is warning residents after 14 cyclosporiasis cases were confirmed. The parasite can bring a long, miserable stomach illness.

A split 5th Circuit panel halted Texas’ monitoring-and-filtering mandate in the SCOPE Act while leaving age‑verification rules intact.

NASA is recruiting four paid volunteers to spend about a year in linked simulators at Johnson Space Center to test Moon and Mars mission living. The program starts no earlier than August 2027 and applications are open.

The University of Houston has joined the Texas Nuclear Alliance, offering research, advanced‑manufacturing expertise and workforce training as Texas rolls out a $350M fund. The move puts Houston into the center of a statewide push for next‑gen nuclear and fusion projects.

NASA will outfit Orion with two Starlink mini laser terminals to downlink 4K imagery to Mission Control in Houston as part of the Artemis III relay demo.

A Houston‑area Rapid Innovation Lab in Webster will test human‑systems mockups for Nyx as The Exploration Co. pushes toward crewed missions to space stations.

UH engineers say tree‑like thin films can pull heat from chips three times faster in lab tests — a potential boost for data‑center efficiency if it scales.

USGS finds modest oil and gas in the Buda Limestone beneath parts of Austin; the totals are small compared with major shale plays but reshape the subsurface map.

Axiom Space has moved its legal headquarters to Texas as it accelerates work on Axiom Station and expands its Houston footprint.

An experimental vaccine developed at the University of Houston can trap fentanyl in the bloodstream and keep it from reaching the brain; early human testing is now underway. Researchers call the animal results dramatic but say human data are needed before any rollout.

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

Houston‑born Cemvita completed a 75,000‑liter FermOil fermentation in Ghent, turning biodiesel glycerin into a potential SAF feedstock.