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2d Boundaries Could Create Electricity

Rice lab leads effort to generate thickness-independent piezoelectricity in atom-thick materials

Rice Models Moving ‘Washers’ That Help Dna Replicate

Computations yield new insights about how motor proteins split double strands

Water Can’t Touch This Sanded, Powdered Surface

Sanding powder into a material provides the right properties for superhydrophobicity

Most but Not All Texas Coaches Say They’ll Plan for Climate Change

Rice University survey suggests some aren’t considering dangerous conditions to come

Vegsense Makes Sense for Forest Studies

Rice bioscientists use mixed-reality headset, custom software to measure vegetation in the field

Rice Engineers Get a Grip with ‘Necrobotic’ Spiders

Lab manipulates dead spiders’ legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers

Synthetic Tools Conduct Messages from Station to Station in Dna

Rice lab uses customized Cas9 editors to dissect how genetic elements communicate

Hidden Genes May Be Tapped for New Antibiotics

Rice University bioscientists adapt CRISPR to trigger ‘silent’ genes in bacteria

Boron Nitride Nanotube Fibers Get Real

Rice lab creates first heat-tolerant, stable fibers from wet-spinning process

Seqscreen Can Reveal ‘Concerning’ Dna

Open-source program IDs synthetic, naturally occurring gene sequences

Agriculture Emissions Pose Risks to Health and Climate

As other sources subside, Rice study shows nitrogen emissions cause greater share of pollutants

Schooling Status During Pandemic Predicted Parents’ Resilience

Rice study shows those used to home schooling more likely to handle added stress in stride

Bumps Could Smooth Quantum Investigations

Rice University models show unique properties of 2D materials stressed by contoured substrates

Gas Flares Tied to Premature Deaths

Rice-led study quantifies effect of black carbon particles on health

Grain Boundaries Go with the Flow

Rice engineers model nanoscale crystal dynamics in easy-to-view system

Bacteria-Killing Drills Get an Upgrade

Visible light triggers Rice’s molecular machines to treat infections

Cars Could Get a ‘Flashy’ Upgrade

Flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles

Rice Chemists Skew the Odds to Prevent Cancer

Theory shows mutations have few easy paths to establish themselves in cells and initiate tumors

Sophisticated Fluid Mechanics Model Is on a Roll

Rice-Waseda project ups its game for complexity with aerodynamic model of a moving car and its tires

Crystal Study May Resolve DNA Mystery

Rice lab captures unseen details of replication, clues to how mutations can happen