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The Rock House Fire
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, a wildfire began west of Marfa. In 48 hours it burned more than 60,000 acres, destroyed fifty homes, and killed herds of livestock. As of this publication, the fire has not yet been contained. These heartbreaking photos were shot by local photographer Alberto Tomas Halpern of the Big Bend Sentinel, www.bigbendnow.com.
The Weird, Weird West
Custom Hats
How to customize a cowboy hat.
Quantum Leap
University of Texas astonomers search for the origins of the universe.
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.



