A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates. “This superb ...

Scientists with disabilities say that’s in part because labs, classrooms and field sites aren’t designed to accommodate them. Students and faculty are still told that they can’t work in a lab or do ...

Venu Varanasi, a biomaterials engineer at the University of Texas at Arlington who has low ... where the grating of two tectonic plates can cause earthquakes. The group included rock enthusiasts ...

The path to Lost Lake was steep and unpaved, lined with sharp rocks and holes.A group of scientists and students gingerly made their way, using canes or a helping hand to ...

Texas Monthly put out a public service announcement of sorts. In response to a long-sounding albeit fairly faint alarm that may or may not have originated from within the walls of our own office, we ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...