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Held every year in the capital of conservative-leaning Texas, the South by Southwest festival increasingly celebrates the state's emergence as a technology hub stepping out of Silicon Valley's shadow.

With plenty of patience and money, the industry is extending its multi-year campaign to bring legal casinos and sports betting to the state.

Local officials, school advocates and tax policy experts said such a proposal could have dire impacts on basic services.

Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Read further on Dynamite News:

Critics say TCEQ is erroneously using a federal rule to exclude counties that are failing federal soot rules.

Bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research could revolutionize therapies for complex conditions like autoimmune disease and cancer. Read further on Dynamite News:

Experts caution that revolutionary quantum computing is still likely years away.

With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have both recently signaled new openness to winding down the state’ border security operation.

For the first time in American history, quantum computing was mentioned by a candidate during a presidential debate, on Sept. 10, 2024. After Vice President Kamala Harris brought up quantum technology, she and former President Donald Trump went on to have a heated back-and-forth about American chipmaking and China’s rise…

Hundreds of industrial facilities with toxic pollutants were in Hurricane Helene’s path as the powerful storm flooded communities across the Southeast in late September 2024.

A research team from Rice University has discovered an efficient and cost-effective way of extracting raw materials from depleted EV batteries.