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Grazing Cattle Can Reduce Agriculture’s Carbon Footprint

Texas A&M AgriLife research shows that proper grazing protocols can regenerate soil systems and ecosystem functions.

3 Questions: Kalyan Veeramachaneni On Hurdles Preventing Fully Automated Machine Learning

Researchers hope more user-friendly machine-learning systems will enable nonexperts to analyze big data — but can such systems ever be completely autonomous?

‘Flashed’ Nanodiamonds Are Just a Phase

Rice produces fluorinated nanodiamond, graphene, concentric carbon via flash Joule heating

The Secret Of The Stradivari Violin Revealed

New research confirms the work of a Texas A&M professor that showed the chemicals used to soak the wood of violins and other instruments produced their amazing sound.

Solar Energy Collectors Grown from Seeds

Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystals

The Power of a Mother's Scent

Maternal pheromones enhance synchrony between the infant's and the mother's brains, suggesting their role in the development of the baby's "social instinct" and opening the door to new therapeutic strategies for developmental disorders.

Improving Macaw Chick Survival Using Foster Parents

Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences researchers hope new methods will increase the number of young macaws.

Study Examines How Breast Implant Surfaces Affect Immune Response

Six-year effort includes researchers from Rice, MD Anderson, Baylor College of Medicine

Analysis Can Predict Individual Differences In Cardiovascular Responses To Altered Gravity

Texas A&M researchers have identified factors that can predict a person's physiological responses to gravitational changes.

Nightside Radio Could Help Reveal Exoplanet Details

Rice team enhances models that will detect magnetospheres in distant solar systems

Quantum Dots Keep Atoms Spaced to Boost Catalysis

Rice University engineers develop strategy for higher-loading single atom catalysts

Artificial Intelligence Is Smart, But Does It Play Well With Others?

Humans find AI to be a frustrating teammate when playing a cooperative game together, posing challenges for "teaming intelligence," study shows.

Biomedical Engineers Grow 3D Bioprinted Blood Vessel

Texas A&M researchers designed a blood vessel model that mimics its state of health and disease, paving the way for cardiovascular drug advancements with better precision.

How Background Music In Ads Affects Consumers

Texas A&M research found participants who watched a running shoe commercial with background music had a higher emotional response.

Antidepressants Inhibit Cancer Growth In Mice

Classic antidepressants could help improve modern cancer treatments. They slowed the growth of pancreatic and colon cancers in mice, and when combined with immunotherapy, they even stopped the cancer growth long-term. In some cases the tumors disappeared completely, researchers at UZH and USZ have found. Their findings will now be tested in human clinical trials.

Equal at Birth and in Death

The baby girl was born roughly 10,000 years ago, after the end of the last Ice Age in what is now Liguria, northwestern Italy, but didn’t survive more than two months.

Genetically Engineered Good Bacteria Could Aid In Combating Disease

A Texas A&M study is a first step in designing more advanced tools to understand and engineer bacteria-host interaction toward biomedical applications.

Experts Aim To Keep Coral Reefs From Dying Off

Coral reefs could be almost extinct in 30 to 50 years, under the worst-case scenario, according to an international group of scientific experts, including University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa research professor Robert H. Richmond, who identified and discussed the requirements for coral reef survival in an article in Biological Conservation.

Basic Building Block To Earliest Forms Of Life Discovered

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are complex organic molecules that may incorporate up to one-third of the organic carbon in our galaxy and are involved in fundamental molecular mass growth processes in our galaxy.

Better Water Management Goal Of Storm, Rainfall Data Analysis

The first study to characterize the frequency of several atmospheric disturbance types in Hawaiʻi and the magnitude of rainfall associated with them aims to help inform future water management decisions in the state.