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How Planets Form Controls Elements Essential for Life

Rice scientists attribute Earth’s nitrogen to rapid growth of moon- to Mars-sized bodies

Accelerating The Discovery Of New Materials For 3D Printing

A new machine-learning system costs less, generates less waste, and can be more innovative than manual discovery methods.

A "Muscular" Response to Regeneration

Neuromuscular disorders affect millions of people worldwide.

Feds Back Probe of Understudied Gut Nervous System

Uribe wins NIH grant to study enteric nervous system development

Preventing Life-Threatening Pediatric Condition Starts with Pandemic Safeguards

Early identification of children’s syndrome after COVID-19 infection is crucial, Rice researchers say

New Organ-On-A-Chip Finds Crucial Interaction Between Blood, Ovarian Cancer Tumors

The microdevice can be used to observe how cancer cells interact with vascular and blood cells and test novel ways to treat the disease.

Bio-Inspired Scaffolds Help Promote Muscle Growth

Rice University bioengineers adapt extracellular matrix for electrospinning

These Neural Networks Know What They’re Doing

A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training.

Pristine Quantum Criticality Found

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

Upcycling Plastic Waste Into High-Performing Mechanical Lubricants

New research could mean fewer adverse impacts from plastic waste and cheaper lubricants used in vehicles and industrial activities.

Biologists Construct a ‘Periodic Table’ for Cell Nuclei

Project to classify nuclei across the tree of life discovers how to transmute them from one type into another

Save Our Pollinators, Save Our World

The director of the Texas A&M Honey Bee Lab explains the large role these small insects and animals play in our food supply.

Actively Addressing Inequalities Promotes Social Change

People who have contact with other social groups are more likely to be committed to social justice. However, an international study led by the University of Zurich has shown that for this to be the case, power relations and discrimination must be actively addressed and group-specific needs must be met. It is important that disadvantaged group members, such as racial minorities and LGBTIQ+ individuals, are given a voice, and that those who belong to advantaged groups do not feel labeled as biased.

2,050-Year-Old Roman Tomb Offers Insights On Ancient Concrete Resilience

New research on ancient Roman concrete inspires durable and sustainable modern constructions.

Hexagonal Boron Nitride's Remarkable Toughness Unmasked

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

Optimizing Phase Change Materials Could Reduce Power Plant Water Consumption

Trillions of gallons of water are used annually to prevent power plants from overheating. A Texas A&M research group is looking into alternative methods of cooling steam turbines.

Popularity Runs in Families

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

Université De Montréal Astronomers Find That Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water

These worlds, located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are unlike any planets found in our solar system.

Microscopy Deep Learning Predicts Viral Infections

When viruses infect cells, changes in the cell nucleus occur, and these can be observed through fluorescence microscopy. Using fluoresence images from live cells, researchers at the University of Zurich have trained an artificial neural network to reliably recognize cells that are infected by adenoviruses or herpes viruses. The procedure also identifies severe acute infections at an early stage.

Sickle Cell Advance Incorporates Rice Lab's Tech

Bioengineer Gang Bao available to comment on gene editing-based strategy to halt disease