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SourceHoustonian Lyle Lovett stars in new Texas A&M video campaign. Here is how to watch.
Houston Chronicle • Aug 21, 2026Klein native and Class of 1979 Aggie Lyle Lovett plays the music for a new Texas A&M University video campaign celebrating time-honored Aggie traditions. The two-minute film is titled “Working Together for the Good of the Nation,” and is a part of Texas A&M’s brand platform, “Together, We Stand as a Force for Good," according to a news release from the university.
In 10 years, satellites will erase the stars. Save the night sky now. | Opinion
Houston Chronicle • Aug 21, 2026In only five years, due to the current pace of unregulated satellite commerce and other invasive technologies, it is not only possible but likely that the night sky will be contaminated beyond repair. A recent analysis by astronomer Olivier Hainault found that by 2031, in light-polluted areas (where most people live), satellites will not just outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye, but will nearly erase them for the vast majority of humanity.
Beef prices, screwworm and data centers: Takeaways from the Texas A&M cattle conference
Houston Chronicle • Aug 5, 2026From Monday to Wednesday, people in cowboy hats crowded the Beef Cattle Short Course to learn about cattle nutrition, genetics, upcoming weather trends and the rising cost of beef. They attended presentations by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts, bonded over a prime rib dinner organized by a meat science professor and talked about the direction of their farms, small and large.
FEMA maps may be missing over 200K high-flood-risk Harris County properties, study shows
Houston Chronicle • Jul 30, 2026For the past decade, flood researchers at the university’s Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas have worked to develop a tool that offers disaster risk information to property owners across dozens of counties impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Using detailed federal insurance claims data not available to the public, they built the model based on where flooding has historically caused damage.
Inside Texas A&M’s centrifuge: Simulating gravity on the moon and Mars
Houston Chronicle • Jun 28, 2026Texas A&M is using the centrifuge to better understand how the human body responds to low-gravity environments such as those on the moon and Mars, where NASA wants to send its astronauts.
Before the current outbreak, Texas eradicated the screwworm in 1966. How did it crawl back to the U.S.?
Houston Chronicle • Jun 22, 2026Despite those innovations, the screwworm remained in northern Mexico and would cross back into Texas every summer in the following years, increasing the U.S. caseload, according to Phillip Kaufman, the head of Texas A&M University entomology department. The last major outbreak in Texas totaled about 90,000 cases in 1972, and before this year, the final case of transmission was recorded in 1982, Kaufman said.
Texas A&M’s semiconductor research push fuels state’s American-made production ambitions
Houston Chronicle • Jun 15, 2026The Texas A&M University System and other Texas higher education institutions want to be major drivers of growth in the U.S. semiconductor industry, part of a state and federal priority to boost the economy and abate national security concerns as most microchips are currently manufactured overseas.
Artemis II captivated the world. Psychologists explain why people were so drawn to this mission.
Houston Chronicle • Apr 19, 2026Josh Hicks, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Texas A&M University, believes people have been craving this type of shared experience. Artemis II gave them a sense of connection and trust. “We're in a funk as a country,” Hicks said. “We're divided. People are stressed. People are distrustful of other people. Everyone — on both sides of the political spectrum — kind of hate the state of the world right now. It's just so divisive.”
No yelling. At Texas A&M, Aggies learn how true leaders disagree. | Opinion
Houston Chronicle • Apr 21, 2026The answer to our current moment is not noise. It is character.
This 90-pound cannon from the Battle of the Alamo has reached a Texas A&M lab for conservation. Here’s how
Houston Chronicle • Feb 22, 2026The metal cannon has since made its way to Bryan, where Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory is restoring it for the Alamo Visitor Center and Museum, which is set to open in spring 2028.