Pre-historic coral reefs dating back up to 250 million years extended much further away from the Earth’s equator than today, new research has revealed.
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has been investigating how the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, manipulates host proteins to penetrate into human cells.
A pill that releases RNA in the stomach could offer a new way to administer vaccines, or to deliver therapies for gastrointestinal disease.
MIT Professor Jonathan Weissman and his colleagues released the first comprehensive functional map of genes expressed in human cells, which ties each gene to its job in the cell.
A Bristol-led team of physicists has found a way to operate mass manufacturable photonic sensors at the quantum limit.
A new method automatically describes, in natural language, what the individual components of a neural network do.
Research IDs origin of iron selenide superconductor’s enigmatic behavior
Scientists at the University of Bristol have demonstrated how predators overcome their preys’ erratic behaviour by adapting their own during the hunt.
Elaine Howard Ecklund, an internationally acclaimed sociologist of religion, is the new director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University.
Scientists demonstrate that AI-risk models, paired with AI-designed screening policies, can offer significant and equitable improvements to cancer screening.
Flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles
Many of the nation’s most prominent hospitals are blatantly violating federal mandates requiring transparency in pricing, and all too often patients are being kept in the dark about dramatic differences between publicly reported prices for services and their actual cost, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rachel Schneider has been named the new director of the Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP), which will now be housed in Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance.
Visible light triggers Rice’s molecular machines to treat infections
Rice engineers model nanoscale crystal dynamics in easy-to-view system
Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) could be identified in the future using an already established national database of serious injuries, according to new University of Bristol-led research.
Rice-led study quantifies effect of black carbon particles on health
MIT engineers are working on a new kind of device that could streamline the process of blood glucose measurement and insulin injection.
Experiencing higher rates of certain cancers than non-Hispanic whites, many Native Americans have to travel especially large distances to access radiation therapy, according to a study led by Washington State University researchers.
A pilot project in Washington to make online grocery buying more widely available to SNAP recipients is already near its goal, buoyed in part by pandemic shutdowns.