Juvenile Kemp’s ridley turtle equipped with a miniature solar-powered satellite transmitter to track its movements. (Florida FWC) By Pamela T. Plotkin, Texas Sea Grant, Texas A&M University, for The Conversation On beaches from North Carolina to Texas and throughout the wider Caribbean, one of nature’s great seasonal events is underway.
CHI St. Joseph Health and Texas A&M University Health Science Center today announced plans to strengthen their partnership to establish a co-branded primary care network. (Texas A&M University Health Science Center) By Dominic Hernandez, Texas A&M University Health Science Center CHI St. Joseph Health and Texas A&M University Health Science…
Kenneth Blanton, of Wilhite Landscaping and Lawn Care in Tyler, distributes fertilizer on a lawn. Slow-release nitrogen-rich fertilizer should be applied every four to six weeks through August to feed grass. (Adam Russell/Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service) By Adam Russell, Texas A&M University College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Springtime…
Sand dunes protect coastal community from infragravity waves during a storm. (Getty Images) By Lorian Hopcus, Texas A&M University College of Engineering While many Texans were bracing for Hurricane Harvey’s landfall in late August 2017, a team of researchers set out to deploy instrument pods along the Texas coast. The…
Ripples in the Elatina Formation in South Australia. (Ryan Ewing/Texas A&M University College of Geosciences) By Leslie Lee, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences Though the term “Snowball Earth” was first coined in 1992 and the science behind the hypothesis had existed for decades, now for the first time scientists…
By Lorian Hopcus, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Human stem cells have shown potential in medicine as they can transform into various specialized cell types such as bone and cartilage cells. The current approach to obtain such specialized cells is to subject stem cells to specialized instructive protein…
Jack Milligan, a senior economics major, helped save an Arizona woman’s life by being a bone marrow donor. (Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts) By Heather Rodriguez, Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts A month after learning she had leukemia, Janie Magruder’s prayers were answered: using the national…
By Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service In the Mosbacher Institute’s latest issue of The Takeaway, Dr. James Griffin identifies three common misconceptions about groundwater and references science and economics to refute them. In the article, Dr. Griffin argues that a loss in…
By Holly Shive, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Engineering Medicine (EnMed), Texas A&M University’s innovative engineering medicine track at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, is now included in the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accreditation of the Texas A&M College of Medicine’s Doctor of Medicine (MD) program.
(Getty Images) Inside Higher Ed Sponsored Content Investigating the biggest questions of our time takes rigor, drive, and sometimes lasers. One Texas A&M scientist is joining a team of global researchers to help NASA leverage laser-imaging technology to unlock the answers that will reshape our world. Set to…