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Texas leads the nation in supplying new residents to other states
The Associated Press • Jan 22, 2026“The obvious and primary answer is size,” said Dudley Poston, professor emeritus of sociology at Texas A&M University. “There’s got to be more people leaving Texas than leaving other states because of the population size of Texas.”
China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s declining fertility rate
The Conversation • Jan 15, 2026I have studied China’s demography for almost 40 years and know that past attempts by the country’s communist government to reverse slumping fertility rates through policies encouraging couples to have more children have not worked. I do not expect these new moves to have much, if any, effect on reversing the fertility rate decline to one of the world’s lowest and far below the 2.1 “replacement rate” needed to maintain a stable population.
Texas A&M has big plans for building small nuclear reactors for its program in College Station
Houston Chronicle • Jan 15, 2026Texas A&M has big plans for small reactors as it expands the nation’s largest nuclear engineering program and partners with six startups to develop new power plant technologies.
Kellie Casavale, director of the Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Evidence Center with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, spoke to Texas Standard about how these guidelines are written, and how they’re applied. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.
U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least
Fortune • Jan 13, 2026“That decline in the share of labor has got to be either falling earnings or falling numbers of people,” Raymond Robertson, a labor economist at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government, told Fortune. “The falling share of income is having to do with the shift towards capital.”
Farming on Mars may sound like science fiction, but Texas A&M University researchers are studying how plants could one day grow on Martian soil with experiments sent to the International Space Station.
The CDC says good oral health during pregnancy and infancy is important to set children up for a lifetime of good health. But not all expectant mothers get that information, says Dr. Penelope Drayer, Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Clinic Director of the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at Texas A&M College of Dentistry.
How Tyson’s beef plant closure will impact the local economy in Nebraska
NPR/National Public Radio • Jan 10, 2026David Anderson, a livestock economist at Texas A&M University, says the cattle industry is cyclical. When the cattle herd is small, meat packers lose money while ranchers make a profit. When there's an excess inventory of cattle, meat packers profit as ranchers lose money. He says each cycle typically lasts about a decade. The cattle herd in the U.S. is the smallest it's been in decades, according to data from the Department of Agriculture, and packers like Tyson are feeling the strain.
A college student fights an insurance denial to get a prosthetic foot before graduation
NBC News • Jan 8, 2026She had a deadline in mind: her December graduation from Texas A&M University, where she hoped to walk across the stage wearing the new prosthesis.
KBTXith millions of people setting numerous goals each new year, the question arises: why do most people give up early on? Texas A&M professor Sherecce Fields, who’s a clinical psychologist, said it’s all about setting small, specific, and attainable goals.