The category 4 storm made landfall on the Gulf Coast early this morning. Evacuation orders have students heading for safety.

The decline in total occupied forest may not equate to an overall loss in butterfly numbers, but scientists are still concerned that their populations are suffering.

Voters approved a measure to double the state’s Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.

The wild population of the species was declared extinct almost 40 years ago, but now researchers have found their genes in a pack of canines near the Gulf coast.

Lonza will employ more than 200 full-time staff to work at the Texas-based facility, the company says.

The Scientist looks at one such Houston-based purveyor that has been treating patients abroad for years with mesenchymal stem cells.

Marine Science Institute on the Gulf experiences damage; “rideout teams” keep watch over animals and facilities. 

The state’s board of education approves new standards that ease up on having students dig into scientific issues relevant to “intelligent design” arguments.

In an effort to prevent the spread of Zika virus, Harris County officials are in discussions with Oxitec to release insects engineered to produce short-lived offspring.

Despite a committee of educators recommending the removal of language challenging evolution in science curricula, state education board members vote to reintroduce controversial concepts. 

About 100 human brains belonging to a university collection thought lost have turned up at another campus. 

Texas lawmakers lifted a ban on a taxpayer-funded research organization to dole out grants.

Texas’s top officials have authorized the state's troubled cancer research institute to award $71.8 million in recruitment grants that have been on hold since last December.

Can a state-funded research institute regain its footing in the wake of grant scandals and resignations?

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has agreed to stop awarding new grants until it addresses concerns about the integrity of is review process.
 

Every member of the scientific review panel at Texas’s $3-billion cancer research funding agency has quit, citing concerns about a lack of proper peer review.

A Texas environmental commission removed mentions of sea level rise and human impacts on climate change in an upcoming environmental report on Galveston Bay.