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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

Strain-Sensing Smart Skin Ready to Deploy

Nanotube-embedded coating detects threats from wear and tear in large structures

SARS-Arena Reveals Hidden Hooks in Virus

Program identifies conserved SARS-CoV-2 peptides that could be used to develop vaccines

Flashing Creates Hard-To-Get 2D Boron Nitride

Rice chemists adapt instant process to make more valuable nanomaterials

Hidden Genes May Be Tapped for New Antibiotics

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

Emu Stands Tall at Detecting Bacteria Species

Rice lab’s program uses common gene to profile microbial communities

Process to Customize Molecules Does Double Duty

Rice lab draws on nature to create flexible precursors for drug, materials design

Boron Nitride Nanotube Fibers Get Real

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

Bacteria-Killing Drills Get an Upgrade

Visible light triggers Rice’s molecular machines to treat infections

Visible Light Triggers Molecular Machines to Treat Infections

Chemists have created light-activated molecular machines and shown they can drill holes through the membranes of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, killing them in as little as two minutes.

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

CPRIT Grants Entice Three Cancer Researchers to Rice

Hans Renata, Samantha Yruegas join chemistry, Mingjie Dai joins bioengineering

DAP Array Casts a Wide Net to Fix Mutations

Rice lab’s CRISPR-based strategy edits multiple genes and could treat polygenic diseases

Blood vessels are guides for stimulating implants

Wireless nerve stimulator about the size of a rice grain could treat chronic pain, diseases