News-Media Coverage
- Andrew Dessler (Arts and Sciences), Yahoo! News, about how the record-breaking 2026 El Niño could temporarily add about 0.3°C to global warming, making 2027 exceptionally hot and offering a preview of the future climate.
- Ben Neuman (Arts and Sciences), Yahoo! News, about how herd immunity has decreased among the general populace due to confusion around vaccine recommendations and declining trust in public health authorities, meaning families must build immunity amongst themselves.
- Benjamin Montemayor (Public Health), The Sacramento Bee, about how Gen Z’s growing “sober curious” movement reflects a more selective approach to alcohol, driven by concerns about mental health, sleep, fitness and productivity, and expands demand for alcohol-free options.
- Christine Budke (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Discover Magazine, about how foodborne parasites caused an estimated 171 million illnesses worldwide in 2021, disproportionately burdening low- and middle-income communities and remaining largely overlooked.
- Daniel Oney (Texas Real Estate Research Center), The Real Deal, about why personal factors could influence Paramount’s potential move to Austin, Texas, and how the studio could anchor new film-related businesses, training programs and talent migration to Texas. (Paywall)
- David Anderson (Agriculture and Life Sciences), The Street, about how U.S. food prices are shifting unevenly, with record-high beef prices, cheaper chicken and pork, lettuce prices falling after contamination concerns, and overall food costs expected to keep rising into 2027.
- Deanna Kennedy (Education and Human Development), KBTX, about research showing that changes in gravity can alter how the brain coordinates movement, potentially leading to new rehabilitation strategies for people with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.
- Gene Hawkins (Engineering), Slash Gear, about shifting road signs from all caps to mixed-case lettering after research found that lowercase letters created recognizable word shapes that helped drivers read signs more easily from a distance, though some messages still require all caps.
- Gordon Carstens (Agriculture and Life Sciences), Feedlot Magazine, about novel disease resistance and feed efficiency traits in cattle, helping researchers identify genetic and behavioral indicators that could improve herd health, reduce illness and enhance production efficiency.
- Heidi Campbell (Arts and Sciences), USA Today, about how modern youth crave in-person connections since much of their lives are spent online.
- Ian Hughes (Arts and Sciences), World Today News, about how workplace doomscrolling can reduce employee engagement and productivity by causing persistent rumination, especially among highly neurotic individuals, and workplaces should contain the habit by setting physical boundaries around when and where negative news is consumed.
- Ivis Garcia (Architecture), The Conversation, about how Puerto Rico’s severe water shortages are worsened by aging, leaky infrastructure, inadequate funding and years of poor water quality that have eroded residents’ trust in the public water system.
- Jenna Yentes (Education and Human Development), Newsweek, about whether subtle changes in walking patterns, such as gait speed and variability, could reveal early biological signs of Alzheimer’s years before cognitive symptoms appear, potentially enabling earlier screening and intervention.
- Ken Muneoka and Larry Suva (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Inc., about how manipulating growth factors and tissue mechanics can turn scar-forming tissue into a regeneration-promoting blastema in mice, raising the possibility of someday regrowing human fingertips without added stem cells.
- Kenneth Ramos, Rick Silva (Institute of Biosciences and Technology) and Israel Liberzon (Medicine), ScienMag, about the development and testing of Wave Neuroscience’s Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy system, an electroencephalogram- and artificial intelligence-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment that recently received FDA clearance for PTSD and aims to provide more personalized, potentially effective care for patients who do not respond to conventional treatments.
- Kranthi Mandadi (AgriLife Research), KRGV, about an Environmental Protection Agency-approved treatment for citrus greening that uses natural antimicrobial compounds derived from spinach to help citrus trees fight disease, giving growers a new tool to reduce fruit losses and protect grove productivity.
- Landyn Young (AgriLife Research), RFDTV, about how higher import tariffs on Canadian mushrooms could increase consumer prices while also improving competitiveness for U.S. producers.
- Phillip Kaufman (Agriculture and Life Sciences), The New York Times, about how even though a lack of wild screwworm flies in thousands of deployed traps may suggest the outbreak remains limited, the trapping data still helps officials refine sterile-fly releases.
- Ralf Rapp (Arts and Sciences), Energy Innovation Review, about the use of advanced models of bottomonium to show how suppression and regeneration in quark-gluon plasma differ across collision energies, providing new insight into the extreme state of matter created in particle colliders.
- Reid Powell (Institute of Biosciences and Technology), NVIDIA, about using Texas A&M’s supercomputer VISION to complete a 10.4-million virtual compound drug screen in just one week, instead of years.
- Siddharth Misra (Engineering), Fortune, about how the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s dwindling inventory is approaching a legal and engineering threshold that could sharply limit its ability to rapidly deliver oil during an energy crisis.
- Susanne Talcott, Stephen Talcott, Marco Palma (Agriculture and Life Sciences) and Mark Holtzapple (Engineering), Seed Today, about exploring prickly pear cactus as a drought-resistant source of biofuels and functional food ingredients, with the aim to create new markets and economic opportunities for growers while developing health-focused products.
- Thomas McMillan (Business), The Sacramento Bee, about how higher prices, social media-driven demand and unexpected school-year expenses are increasing back-to-school costs in 2026, while budgeting, reusing supplies, shopping sales and using artificial intelligence for price comparisons can help families save.
- Yanling Mayer (Texas Real Estate Research Center), KBTX, about an analysis showing the Bryan-College Station housing market is becoming more balanced, with rising inventory and longer selling times signaling weaker prices and giving buyers more choices and negotiating power.
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