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Scientific AI’s ‘Black Box’ Is No Match for 200-Year-Old Method

Fourier transformations reveal how deep neural network learns complex physics

Bite This! Mosquito Feeding Chamber Uses Fake Skin, Real Blood

Innovative tool tests blood-sucking behavior with technology instead of volunteers

Volcano-Like Rupture Could Have Caused Magnetar Slowdown

Star’s sudden 2020 slowdown allows for test of ‘anti-glitch’ theory

Inner Ear Has a Need for Speed

New study uncovers how a unique, fast synapse keeps us from falling

Nanoparticles make it easier to turn light into solvated electrons

Illuminating study from Rice, UT, Stanford advances ‘green’ reducing agents

DNA Repair Scheme Gets Closer Look for Cancer Therapy

Rice lab details mechanism of DNA-repair enzyme that’s been linked to cancer

Lab Lights Way to Simple Chemical Synthesis

Rice lab photochemistry method eases manufacture of drug, chemical precursors Inexpensive

Climate Warming Reduces Organic Carbon Burial Beneath Oceans

Painstaking study of 50-plus years of seafloor sediment cores has surprise payoff

More Links Aren’t Necessarily Better for Hybrid Nanomaterials

Adding charge acceptors can slow electron transfer in some light-activated materials

Webb Space Telescope Reveals Previously Shrouded Newborn Stars

Webb’s infrared camera peers through dust clouds, enabling discovery

Pathogenic Sensor’s Surprising Capabilities Revealed

High-throughput method is first for screening bacterial receptor-peptide interactions

Early Planetary Migration Can Explain Missing Planets

Model accounts for scarcity of planets with masses between super-Earths and mini-Neptunes

Rice Lab’s Catalyst Could Be Key For Hydrogen Economy

Inexpensive catalyst uses energy from light to turn ammonia into hydrogen fuel

Fluidic Circuits Add Analog Options for Controlling Soft Robots

Rice undergrad’s programmable, air-driven circuits blend digital, analog components

Rice Lab Grows Macroscale, Modular Materials from Bacteria

Bioscientists grow engineered living materials for contaminant remediation, catalysis

Physicists Demo Method for Designing Topological Metals

Design principle could guide search for metals with immutable quantum states

SU(N) Matter Is About 3 Billion Times Colder Than Deep Space

Universe’s coldest fermions open portal to high-symmetry quantum realm

Reconstructing Ice Age Diets Reveals Unraveling Web of Life

Recreating 130,000 years of mammal food webs shows scope of biodiversity crisis

Tetrahedrons Assemble! Three-Sided Pyramids Form 2D Structures

Rice study: Bottom-up construction with a 2D twist could yield novel materials

Study: Explosive Volcanic Eruption Produced Rare Mineral on Mars

Researchers publish scenario that explains 2016 discovery by NASA’s Curiosity rover