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UH Population Health Now a Jackson Heart Study Vanguard Center

Exclusive Data on Cardiovascular Health in African Americans Hosted at University

The Free-Energy Principle Explains the Brain

The RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, along with colleagues, has shown that the free-energy principle can explain how neural networks are optimized for efficiency.

Study Finds Human Impact on Wildlife Even in Protected Areas

Largest survey of its kind could inform biodiversity policy

Baker Institute Report: Russia-Ukraine Provides Policy Lessons on Oil, Natural Gas as Geopolitical Weapons

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought renewed focus on the use of energy resources as geopolitical “weapons.”

A New Way To Detect The SARS-Cov-2 Alpha Variant In Wastewater

SMART researchers have developed an innovative method to detect and quantify the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant of concern via wastewater epidemiology.

New Enzyme Could Aid Anticancer Drug Development

Rice U. study provides complete roadmap to complex molecule assembly

A New Approach To Preventing Human-Induced Earthquakes

Applied in the field, a new model reduced quakes from oil and gas processes; could help manage seismic events from carbon sequestration.

Electrochemical Device Captures Carbon Dioxide at the Flick of a Switch

Disruptive technology could lower carbon-capture costs across all emission types

Neuws Camera Answers ‘Holy Grail Problem’ in Optical Imaging

Rice, Maryland engineers overcome ‘light scattering’ with full-motion video

MIT Engineers Develop A Soft, Printable, Metal-Free Electrode

A new Jell-O-like material could replace metals as electrical interfaces for pacemakers, cochlear implants, and other electronic implants.

Device Makes Hydrogen from Sunlight with Record Efficiency

New standard for green hydrogen technology set by Rice U. engineers

Discovery May Lead to Terahertz Technology for Quantum Sensing

Metal oxide’s properties could enable wide range of terahertz frequency photonics

This Salty Gel Could Harvest Water From Desert Air

A new material developed by MIT engineers exhibits “record-breaking” vapor absorption.

A Clean Alternative To One Of The World’s Most Common Ingredients

C16 Biosciences, founded by MIT alumni, has developed a microbial oil to replace palm oil, whose production reaps environmental devastation.

Determining the Hamiltonian of Quantum Systems with Far Fewer Measurements

The energy function that governs systems of quantum particles can be determined using much fewer measurements than previously considered necessary

Cancer Therapy Using On-Site Synthesis of Anticancer Drugs

An international research group at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) has successfully treated cancer in mice using metal catalysts that assemble anticancer drugs together inside the body.

Advancing Material Innovation To Address The Polymer Waste Crisis

MIT researchers work to discover biodegradable polyesters, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, J-WAFS, and DIC Corp.

Matter and Antimatter Seem to Respond Equally to Gravity

As part of an experiment to measure—to an extremely precise degree—the charge-to-mass ratios of protons and antiprotons, the RIKEN-led BASE collaboration at CERN, Geneva,