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HOUSTON (AP) — More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are stuck on an organ transplant wait list, hoping to find that perfect match to their blood type, body size and hospital location. But many — 20 per day, in fact — will die before receiving the org...

HOUSTON (AP) — Young Vanessa Wyche sat hunched over a piece of paper, drawing the childish outline of a U.S. president in crayon for a class assignment. The Houston Chronicle reports when it came time to shade in the two-dimensional man's face, W...

HOUSTON (AP) — Tilly reached her wrinkly trunk through the steel cables of the Houston Zoo's elephant enclosure on a recent morning, wiggling it side-to-side as if waving hello to the gathering crowd of visitors. The Houston Chronicle reports just a...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The white and brownish-black bird in the photo was covered in so many cactus spines, Alyssa Barrett could barely make out its coloring, let alone its species. But something about the crook in its beak made her pulse q...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Adrienne Correa sucked in a breath as she slipped on her wet suit 115 miles offshore of Galveston — but it had nothing to do with preparing for her 70-foot dive to the coral reef at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine San...

HOUSTON (AP) — Even as President Donald Trump signed a directive this month to put boots back on the moon, a team of NASA researchers continued work on a quiet project to send an unmanned rover there. The Houston Chronicle reports the project started...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — As the R/V Trident sped northwest through Galveston Bay, students and researchers from Texas A&M University's Galveston campus donned blue latex gloves and bright orange life vests, silently mouthing the words to F...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — There's something about Utah's uncluttered landscape and expansive blue sky that gives Mary Beckerle a sense of mental space. It helps her think, she says, and fuels her desire to explore both mentally and physically. It's t...