Africa has a population of over 1 billion people — a fact that is not lost on the architects and architecture students who will analyze the continent’s unique healthcare challenges in a lecture...

Hollywood movies such as “Armageddon” love to examine the desperate measures necessary to stop asteroids from crashing into the Earth. Despite how far off Hollywood’s story lines often...

Stephen Hawking made a splash in the physics world early this month when he said scientists have been mistaken about black holes all along Clouding scientists’ understanding of  black holes...

Whenever a Meals on Wheels team serves a senior or disabled citizen in the Bryan-College Station area, care for their pets isn’t far behind.  Dogs and cats provide critical companionship to...

The answer to Africa’s malaria challenge could fit in a pocket.Texas A&M researchers hope to revolutionize the way the disease is identified by simply using a smartphone and a type of clip-on...

The next wave of transportation is in the works as SpaceX partners with Texas A&M for a Hyperloop design competition. The competition aims at engaging students to design innovative Hyperloop pods...

Aerospace engineering professor by day, Latin blues drummer by night — Othon Rediniotis is more than an academic. Rediniotis, or “Red” as his students call him, is an entrepreneur,...

Reporter Barath Menon sat down with Nicholas Suntzeff, Texas A&M astronomy professor, to talk about his time spent at some of the world’s largest observatories. THE BATTALION: What would...

Since the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, satellites have changed drastically. From objects like the Hubble Space Telescope to those that observe weather patterns or image the earth, satellites fill...

The next physics breakthrough may be in the works due in part to the efforts of Texas A&M scientists. A&M physicists are working with the largest particle accelerator in the world, known as the...

It all boiled down to one question — how do you keep an astronaut alive long enough to land on Mars? A spacecraft heavy enough to sustain a manned Martian mission reaches the planet with too much...

It can’t be seen or measured, yet it has the energy to make the universe’s galaxies accelerate away from each other.  Dark energy is one of the universe’s strangest secrets, but...