Comparing models of working memory with real-world data, MIT researchers find information resides not in persistent neural activity, but in the pattern of its connections.
A parasite believed to be present in more than 40 million people in the United States and often spread by domestic and wild cats could hamper ongoing conservation efforts in bighorn sheep.
A new technique helps verify the accuracy of experiments that probe the strange behavior of atomic-scale systems.
A new study identifies cells that are the most vulnerable within a brain structure involved in mood and movement.
Webb’s infrared camera peers through dust clouds, enabling discovery
Putting clear bounds on uncertainty. Computer scientists want to know the exact limits in our ability to clean up, and reconstruct, partly blurred images.
Rice method to find antibiotic-resistant genes shows limits of ‘snapshot’ samples, chlorination
Adding charge acceptors can slow electron transfer in some light-activated materials
Painstaking study of 50-plus years of seafloor sediment cores has surprise payoff
Using bottlebrush-shaped particles, researchers can identify and deliver synergistic combinations of cancer drugs.
Rice lab photochemistry method eases manufacture of drug, chemical precursors Inexpensive
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
When she’s not analyzing data about her favorite biomolecule, senior Sherry Nyeo focuses on improving the undergraduate experience at MIT.
Rice lab details mechanism of DNA-repair enzyme that’s been linked to cancer
High-efficiency gene-editing tool significantly improves the pace of new drug discovery
Rice U. lab develops imaging tool that holds promise for cancer treatment
The findings could provide a new way to control chemical reactions.
Illuminating study from Rice, UT, Stanford advances ‘green’ reducing agents
New study uncovers how a unique, fast synapse keeps us from falling
First detailed mapping and modeling of thalamus inputs onto visual cortex neurons show brain leverages “wisdom of the crowd” to process sensory information.