Oh wait, they're not. That's a myth. The plants really aren't toxic at all. But people, as it turns out, are poisonous to the plants, which could live for years with a little tender love and care instead of post-holiday...

Yes, you read the headline right. The prediction comes from Michael Webber, an engineer who is the Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Webber In an essay for...

Welcome to your Monday morning weather update in which I'll attempt to sum up the immediate past, present and future of weather on the bayou. PAST Before we talk about the chances of "winter wonderland" conditions during Christmas in...

Since Rick Smalley's untimely death four years ago I have wondered who would take up the mantle as Rice University's standard-bearer in the field of nanotechnology. Tour More and more it seems the answer is Jim Tour. Tour is a...

Christmas remains two weeks away, but we can now begin to get the faintest glimpses of what weather it may hold for us. That's because in the range of 10-14 days weather models can just begin to discern patterns in...