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Rice Economist’s Research on School Choice Suggests Ways to Improve Experience for Students, Parents

For school-age students and their parents, school choice programs can be complicated and stressful. Research from Rice University economist YingHua

Rice Engineers Get a Grip with ‘Necrobotic’ Spiders

Lab manipulates dead spiders’ legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers

Study: Explosive Volcanic Eruption Produced Rare Mineral on Mars

Researchers publish scenario that explains 2016 discovery by NASA’s Curiosity rover

Tetrahedrons Assemble! Three-Sided Pyramids Form 2d Structures

Rice study: Bottom-up construction with a 2D twist could yield novel materials

Vegsense Makes Sense for Forest Studies

Rice bioscientists use mixed-reality headset, custom software to measure vegetation in the field

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

Water Can’t Touch This Sanded, Powdered Surface

Sanding powder into a material provides the right properties for superhydrophobicity

Rice Models Moving ‘Washers’ That Help Dna Replicate

Computations yield new insights about how motor proteins split double strands

2d Boundaries Could Create Electricity

Rice lab leads effort to generate thickness-independent piezoelectricity in atom-thick materials

‘Drug Factory’ Implants Eliminate Mesothelioma Tumors in Mice

Rice, Baylor study highlights potential treatment for aggressive lung cancer

Brushing Thin Films onto Electrodes Preserves Batteries

Rice technique shows creating films on lithium anodes gives them longer life

Reconstructing Ice Age Diets Reveals Unraveling Web of Life

Recreating 130,000 years of mammal food webs shows scope of biodiversity crisis

Glowing Tags Reveal Split-Second Activity of Pathogenic Circuitry

New tool lets Rice synthetic biologists ‘see’ signal processing in real time

Powering an ‘Arm’ with Air Could Be Mighty Handy

Walking feeds pressure to pneumatic robots that could help those with disabilities

New Weapon Targets Antibiotic Resistance

Rice lab leads development of light-activated hemithioindigo molecules to kill infectious bacteria

Traumatic Societal Events May Undermine Classroom Behavior Interventions For Certain Groups, MU Study Finds

As a researcher of student mental health and well-being, Keith Herman has found that, in general, offering students more positive encouragement rather than negative reprimands not only reduces disruptive student classroom behavior but can also improve students’ academic and social outcomes.

Modifying The Body’s Immune System To Help Treat Type 1 Diabetes

Scientists at University of Missouri collaborate with Harvard, Georgia Tech to develop a novel diabetes treatment involving transplanting pancreas cells that produce insulin.

Using AI To Analyze Large Amounts Of Biological Data

University of Missouri researchers develop method which could be used by scientists when developing new drug therapies for medical treatment of cancers, other diseases.

Gastrointestinal Issues Linked With Anxiety, Social Withdrawal For Kids With Autism

Findings could help shape future treatments aimed at easing pain for kids with autism experiencing constipation, stomach pain.

Early Detection Warnings Can Reduce Medical Emergencies

Identifying declines in patient condition early can improve quality of care.