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.

UT San Antonio won a five-year, $44M NHLBI contract to expand the RURAL Cohort Study and bring a mobile clinic back to rural counties across four Southern states.

UT Arlington will lead a $4M, state-backed project with Rice to deploy a radar-integrated, real-time flood-warning network across the Texas Hill Country. The platform aims to deliver location-specific depth forecasts to emergency managers.

Texas Biomed researchers are developing a flu vaccine that could protect for years by targeting stable viral parts; animal studies are the next step.

Less than a year after merging, UT San Antonio rose to No. 64 in NIH funding with $147.1M, driven by gains in medicine, dentistry and early cross‑campus seed grants.

UH and DHR Health broke ground on a $15M medical research and education center in McAllen to train doctors locally and expand community-focused research.

UT Austin, UTSA and Baylor are moving AI into core computer‑science classes as software hiring cools and many students delay the job market for extra training.

Local pad activity, Booster 19 testing and a Starbase closure have pushed SpaceX’s next Starship flight into an early‑to‑mid‑May window. Here’s what to watch.

Snorkeling in a Comal County water cave, UT researchers recovered fossils from giant tortoises, pampatheres and ground sloths that suggest a warmer, wetter Ice Age Texas.

Texas Biomed will test mAb 77 in juvenile rhesus monkeys next month — a possible first antiviral for measles as cases rise. The study builds on a 2024 Science discovery.

A 20i survey finds Texas web designers report more pay satisfaction than peers on the coasts, even with lower average salaries. Cost of living and career stage appear to matter more than raw dollars.

A San Antonio firm demonstrated a prototype lunar excavator and partnered with Astrolab to outfit FLEX rovers with interchangeable tools for landing pads, roads and reactor sites on the Moon.

An investigation ties contaminated medicines, falsified testing and inspection gaps to overseas factories — and patients are already paying the price.