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A team of Texas A&M University aerospace engineering students has built a 50-pound drone capable of carrying 110 pounds over four nautical miles, demonstrating a lightweight design at the first Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Lift Challenge.

Her burial circumstances may also point to stigma. The middle-aged woman was placed face-down in a wooden coffin at the cemetery's southern edge and was buried with only a copper hairpin. Live Science reported, citing study co-author Qian Wang of Texas A&M University, a biological anthropologist, that those details suggest she was socially excluded even in death.

Creatine’s benefits may go beyond the gym for older adults

Futurity • Sep 23, 2026

The study’s principal investigator, Richard Kreider, professor and director of the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Lab at Texas A&M University, has studied creatine for more than 30 years. The naturally occurring compound helps replenish cellular energy and has been extensively studied for its effects on exercise performance, muscle, and strength. Kreider’s previous research has pointed to potential benefits for health across the lifespan.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praises Texas A&M as model of ‘backbone and resolve’

Houston Chronicle • Sep 19, 2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised Texas A&M University for what he called its “backbone and resolve” Saturday, holding up the school as an example of what he said the country needs. “I do not see an academic institution trying to apologize for American strength; I see backbone and resolve, and the uncompromising future of the United States and the United States armed forces,” Hegseth told members of the university’s Corps of Cadets. “I see a real, grounded, strong institution, which is exactly what our nation needs.”

“These viruses are not merciful,” says Sakil Faizullah, a health communications researcher at Texas A&M University and a former communications specialist at UNICEF Bangladesh. “If there is a break in the regular vaccination process, they will just attack, and that is what happened in Bangladesh.”

“Political information is designed to capture attention and provoke emotional reactions,” Dr. Ian Hughes, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Texas A&M University, said in a Thursday statement. “The challenge is that those reactions don’t necessarily disappear once people close an app or turn off the TV - they can continue influencing how people experience the rest of their day.”

“The population is so vulnerable and has such limited access to health services at all that screening for kidney disease is not on the radar,” Rebecca Fischer, associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health at Texas A&M told Texas Monthly. “This is a disease of poverty. It’s a neglected disease, in a neglected population, in a neglected part of the world, in impoverished communities that, frankly, many people are not paying attention to.”

A new study tracked silky and sandbar sharks using acoustic telemetry in the Gulf of Mexico's Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Researchers found juvenile silky sharks exhibited seasonal habitat shifts, utilizing both natural banks and artificial reefs. Adult female sandbar sharks, however, displayed extensive movements, often traveling thousands of kilometers beyond sanctuary boundaries to distant locations like the Florida Keys and North Atlantic. Interestingly, while both species used shared sites, they rarely co-occurred, possibly due to predation avoidance. The findings highlight that marine protected areas are just one component of a shark's dynamic, interconnected habitat network, emphasizing the need for conservation strategies that consider broad-scale connectivity and the ecological role of artificial structures.

The Texas A&M logo and ‘Stand by America’ will be featured at NASCAR this weekend. Here’s why

Houston Chronicle • Sep 16, 2026

The Texas A&M logo will be featured on an university-themed design for NASCAR driver Cole Custer’s Chevrolet Camaro at this weekend’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee.

A new study published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition by researchers at Texas A&M University looked at how creatine use affected adults between the age of 45 and 65 who either exercised or did not. During the 12-week experiment the group of 64 adults were split into groups that either took 10 grams of creatine or a placebo. Participants were then broken up into exercise and non-exercise groups.