NASA

What do you get when you cross a Puerto Rican mother, a rocket scientist, a stand-up comedian and an Aggie?

The 2015 Gulf Coast Sargassum Symposium will feature several Texas A&M Galveston experts focusing on the seaweed problem that frequently hits the Texas coast.

There’s a four-letter word to describe conditions on Mars, and it’s not pretty: Dust.

Their names are Alicia, Rita and Ike. There’s even one known by the number 1900.

Extreme air pollution in Asia is affecting the world’s weather and climate patterns.

Radiation helps treat food to make it free of bacteria and viruses.

There is a research plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint, and the science behind it is absolutely rock solid, so to speak.

Besides providing NASA with scores of engineers and flight technicians, several Aggies have served as true astronauts.

Mark Lemmon, associate professor in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, will receive the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal.

Scruggs is one of 18 college students selected to participate in the National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s summer internship program.