Science
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Anthony Fiorillo, 53 »
Paleontologist
November 2011 As told to Sonia Smith
Narrating the Night Sky »
San Antonio's Sandy Wood has been the voice of StarDate for twenty years.
November 2011 by Sonia Smith
Mind Games »
Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist David Eagleman is out to change the way we think about guilt and innocence (and time and novels and, well, neuroscientists). Can he pull it off?
June 2011 by Jim Lewis
A Beautiful Mind
David Eagleman is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, and a recent recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. His latest book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, comes out at the end of the month. Though Eagleman specializes in the fields of time perception and neuro-law, he is best known for his fiction. His 2009 collection of linked short stories, "Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives," was a best seller in the United Kingdom, where it is being turned into an opera. Camera by Brian Birzer
June 2011 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Tusk! »
For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by mammoths, those giant, prehistoric creatures that once roamed Texas. So I decided to go looking for them.
April 2011 by Stephen Harrigan
Discovery
These photographs were taken during the final launch of Discovery, which blasted off at 4:53:24 p.m. (EST) on February 24, 2011. Seven cameras were set up around the launchpad, three within five hundred feet of the ship, with hand-built triggers designed to fire at five frames per second in response to the sound of the rockets igniting (no one is allowed within three miles of the site). These pictures cover a two-minute period, from ignition to the moment just before the orbiter drops its boosters. Photographs by Dan Winters
April 2011
The Last Blast »
Few things are as majestic as the launch of the space shuttle. But after nearly thirty years, NASA is sending up its final orbiters. Here's the view from up close.
April 2011 by Al Reinert
Menopause, Moms, and Medical Marijuana »
A roundup of the latest and greatest scientific research from Texas universities.
September 2010 by Kelsey Crow, Alanna Lindley, Alexandra Murphy, Vi-An Nguyen, Kevin Sullivan, Nadia Tamez-Robledo and Steve Thompson
Weird Science »
As the peculiar case of a Fort Bend sheriff’s deputy and his bloodhounds makes clear, the techniques of crime-scene investigation are not as infallible as the TV shows would have us believe. How a misplaced faith in some forensic experts is putting innocent people behind bars.
May 2010 by Michael Hall
Goodnight Moon »
Forty years ago, the attention to space exploration was constant. And the faces of the exploration gave rise to a group of larger than life individuals—the astronauts.
May 2010 by Kate Hull
Fear Less »
Can new research predict which soldiers will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder—and which won’t?
April 2010 by Katy Vine
Brain Storm »
The role of the cerebellum and underlying brain abnormalities in autism.
November 2009 by Eileen Smith
Warning Shot »
Texas parents have the choice to opt their children out of school vaccination requirements based on “reasons of conscience.” But what about the other kids around them?
November 2009 by Pamela Colloff
Why Are Tortilla Chips So Damn Good? »
Is it the crispiness? The crunchiness? The saltiness? Thankfully, a small cadre of researchers in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M has spent much of the past thirty years munching on this question.
September 2009 by Karen Olsson
Widespread Panic »
Despite its status as a public health emergency, is the swine flu just another flu?
September 2009 by Michael Hall
Walking on the Moon »
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history as the first humans to set foot on the surface of the moon. Forty years later, the researchers, astronauts, engineers, scientists, and NASA officials who made the voyage possible remember the day the Eagle landed.
July 2009 by Katy Vine
Cold Case »
One year ago tejano star Emilio Navaira was nearly killed in a tour bus accident outside Houston. What are we still learning about the experimental medical procedure that may have saved his life?
April 2009 by Jan Reid
The Science of Murder »
Someone killed Melissa Trotter and dumped her body in the Sam Houston National Forest. But according to six forensic experts, that someone was not Larry Swearingen.
January 2009 by Michael Hall
The Final Frontier »
Karl Gebhardt and Gary Hill, two astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin, are racing to solve one of the greatest mysteries in science: What is dark energy? How does it work? Can it explain the origins of the universe? There’s only one problem. Dark energy may not actually exist.
April 2008 by Karen Olsson
Quantum Leap
University of Texas astonomers search for the origins of the universe.
April 2008
Susan Hovorka »
55, geologist, Austin
February 2008
Mark Westhusin »
49, cloner, College Station
February 2008
Nan Hall Linke »
Nan Hall Linke, astrologer.
February 2008 As told to Pamela Colloff
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