SLB will absorb about $700 million of Kelvion's debt as it races to feed AI data centers' growing thirst for cooling power.

Robert Lindemann became the first VA patient treated with Visualase, going home just two days after the procedure.

Lindsey Austen's cat food and light bulbs took an unplanned swim after a Prime Air drone missed her yard entirely.

The Texas port becomes the second in the nation to explore small nuclear reactors for shoreside power and ships.

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.