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It is, perhaps, difficult for people younger than, say, 40 to understand just how important, powerful and beloved Walter Cronkite was.

Overview of transit of Venus : From the Houston area, the transit will start around 5 PM and at sunset a few hours later, it will still be in progress.

During the last couple of weeks Todd Ackerman and I have been reporting on a controversial $20 million grant received by the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University.

Given the unofficial confirmation Friday that the United States was behind Stuxnet-the malware designed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program-political and technical experts suggest that this may effectively put the United States in a more dangerous foreign policy position.

A detailed analysis of more than 4 million absorbent minerals has determined that new materials could help electricity producers slash as much as 30 percent of the "parasitic energy" costs associated with removing carbon dioxide from power plant emissions.

Former Zachary High School student and now Indiana University graduate and Rice University masters student, Philip Hembree, will be joined by David Perkins, Hart School of Music masters student, and LSU's Professor of Trumpet, Brian Shaw, for a summer trumpet concert on Saturday, June 2, at Plains Presbyterian Church, 22929 Old Scenic Hwy.

Yesterday, economist and Slate writer Matt Yglesias tweeted an interesting factoid: Today, the average General Motors worker makes 28 cars per year.

New research by scientists at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center profiles protein pathways distinctive to certain leukemia patients.

Coach John G. Agno is your own cultural attache; keeping you abreast of what's effective in leadership.

What do you get when you combine a slingshot, a fish tank, a stack of 2 by 4s, and five engineering students determined to help the United States Air Force? For Team CADET at Rice University, the answer is a device to stop high-velocity projectiles without destroying them.

Hiding your true social identity -- race and ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or a disability -- at work can result in decreased job satisfaction and increased turnover, according to a new study from Rice University, the University of Houston and George Mason University.

With Iran's computer-emergency response center now decrying Windows -based cyber-espionage software known as Flame it says it discovered infecting its oil-ministry computers, the uproar is reaching into the United Nations, which is investigating the malware.

There's some developing news today in the ongoing story about the $20 million grant given to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University to speed the translation of cancer drugs from the lab to bedside.

The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth will host Brinkley at a luncheon June 13 at the Fort Worth Club.

A computational analysis that screened hundreds of thousands of zeolite and zeolitic imidazolate framework structures has identified many different structures that have the potential to reduce the parasitic energy loss of carbon capture technologies for powerplant flue gas by as much as 30-40% compared with amine scrubbing.

The game-changing development of shale oil and gas in the United States has motivated countries around the world to tap potentially massive resources.

Preview performances : 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 1 at the University of Houston Honors College, 4800 Calhoun; 8 p.m. Saturday, June 2 at Stages Repertory Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 4 at Jones Theater, 3910 Yoakum Blvd.

Houston's Hispanics are dropping out of school at an alarming rate and only a small group is going on to college, creating a daunting problem for a city that is 40 percent Hispanic and growing.

Internet activists may have tried hard to make House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, pay for sponsoring legislation they claimed would stifle free speech and innovation on the Internet, but it doesn't appear their efforts to defeat the long-time incumbent have paid off.

May 29 - On today's Texas's Republican primary, the Center for American Progress released 10 important facts about immigrants and people of color in the state that display their significant economic, cultural, and electoral power.