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A-List Candidate for Fault-Free Quantum Computing Delivers Surprise

Puzzling result forces physicists to rethink ‘spin-triplet’ superconductivity

Air Bubbles in Antarctic Ice Point to Cause of Oxygen Decline

Glacial erosion likely caused atmospheric oxygen levels to dip over past 800,000 years

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Swirling Bacteria Mimic Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’

Rice, Wyoming labs discover emergent social circles in myxobacteria

Microplastic Pollution Aids Antibiotic Resistance

Engineers at Rice lead study of how polystyrene contributes to crisis

Orbital Harmony Limits Late Arrival of Water on Trappist-1 Planets

Fragile orbits of seven exoplanets could survive only limited early bombardment

Physicists Probe Light Smashups to Guide Future Research

Understanding photon collisions could aid search for physics beyond the Standard Model

Crop-Eating Moths Will Flourish as Climate Warms

Warmer climate will make diamondback moths more widespread, harder to control

Rice Physicists Find 'Magnon' Origins in 2d Magnet

Topological feature could prove useful for encoding information in electron spins

Physicists Find Room-Temperature, 2d-To-1d Topological Transition

Rice-led team toggles side- and edge-conduction states in bismuth iodide crystals

Rice Expert: Using Carbon Is Key to Decarbonizing Economy

Pasquali available for interviews about using nanomaterials to slash emissions

When Many Act as One, Data-Driven Models Can Reveal Key Behaviors

Rice bioengineers' tool uncovers individual origins of collective behavior

Study Examines How Breast Implant Surfaces Affect Immune Response

Six-year effort includes researchers from Rice, MD Anderson, Baylor College of Medicine

Solar Energy Collectors Grown from Seeds

Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystals

Popularity Runs in Families

Cloned fruit flies star in 'Truman Show' study of how genes play role in social networks

Hexagonal Boron Nitride's Remarkable Toughness Unmasked

2D material resists cracking and description by century-old theory of fracture mechanics

Pristine Quantum Criticality Found

Study: Quantum fluctuations may give rise to topological phases of matter

Feds Back Probe of Understudied Gut Nervous System

Uribe wins NIH grant to study enteric nervous system development

Flatfish Got Weird Fast Due to Evolutionary Cascade

Study: Skull asymmetry arose rapidly from trait co-evolution

Does Selfishness Evolve? Ask a Cannibal

One of nature's most prolific cannibals could be hiding in your pantry, and biologists have used it to show how social structure affects the evolution of selfish behavior.

Corals May Need Their Predators' Poop

Fish that dine on corals may pay it forward with poop.