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  • Texas display reaches 307 million pixels

    AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The University of Texas says the world's highest-resolution tiled display is now operational at its Austin campus.
  • Proposed Texas science curriculum released

    AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Critics of earlier drafts say the final draft of the Texas science curriculum will provide students with a "21st century education," especially on evolution.
  • Texas to reconsider $6M steriod testing in schools

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- By the tens of thousands, Texas student-athletes have been pulled out of class to urinate in a cup for the nation's largest high school steroids testing program....
  • Texas drafting new science curriculum

    AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Texas Board of Education convened a public hearing Wednesday on proposed new standards for the teaching of science in Texas classrooms.
  • Famous fossil secretly scanned in Texas

    AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Archaeologists at the University of Texas at Austin were given a top secret look at Lucy, one of the world's most famous fossils.
  • Texas using infant blood for research

    AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Blood taken from Texas infants to test for a range of birth defects is being stored for medical research, officials said.
  • Texas is second to Alaska in acres of forest land

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The first detailed statewide tree count in Texas history is headed toward this conclusion: Texas is No. 2....
  • 9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 ...
  • Tiny flies aimed at fire ants in Texas

    AUSTIN, Texas, May 12 (UPI) -- Four species of tiny flies that lay eggs in fire ants have been imported into Texas in an effort to reduce the numbers of the stinging invaders.
  • Texas begins $3 billion quest to cure cancer

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas gave birth to the modern oil industry, invented the handheld calculator and sent man to the moon. But can the Lone Star State cure cancer?...
  • Construction workers learn new technology

    AUSTIN, Texas, May 5 (UPI) -- The University of Texas at Austin says it received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to teach new technology to construction workers.
  • Study: Anesthetics may curb nerve regrowth

    AUSTIN, Texas, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists using a worm model say they've found nerves can regenerate up to 12 times faster when they are severed without the use of anesthetics.
  • U.S. water data to be standardized

    AUSTIN, Texas, May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've started an initiative to create the first comprehensive data management system for the nation's water supply.
  • 'Grid computing' may help fight cancer

    AUSTIN, Texas, June 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. biomedical engineering professor is using the concept called "grid computing" to allow people to donate their idle computer time to fight cancer.
  • Laser surgery probe targets specific cells

    AUSTIN, Texas, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. medical engineers say they have developed a laser "microscalpel" capable of destroying a single cancer cell and leaving nearby cells intact.

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