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Volcano-Like Rupture Could Have Caused Magnetar Slowdown

Star’s sudden 2020 slowdown allows for test of ‘anti-glitch’ theory

Researchers Map Brain Cell Changes In Alzheimer’s Disease

Study reveals key cell structures and gene expression changes near amyloid plaques and tau tangles in mouse brain tissue.

Rice Scientists’ Discovery Could Lead to New Alzheimer’s Therapies

Research reveals protein plaques associated with disease are stickier than thought

Why Lung Cancer Doesn’t Respond Well To Immunotherapy

A new study reveals that lymph nodes near the lungs create an environment that weakens T-cell responses to tumors.

New Enzyme Could Mean Better Drugs

Xue Sherry Gao, Rice team identify surprising catalyst for Nobel Prize-winning reaction

Sparse, Small, But Diverse Neural Connections Help Make Perception Reliable, Efficient

First detailed mapping and modeling of thalamus inputs onto visual cortex neurons show brain leverages “wisdom of the crowd” to process sensory information.

Inner Ear Has a Need for Speed

New study uncovers how a unique, fast synapse keeps us from falling

Nanoparticles make it easier to turn light into solvated electrons

Illuminating study from Rice, UT, Stanford advances ‘green’ reducing agents

Physicists Observe Rare Resonance In Molecules For The First Time

The findings could provide a new way to control chemical reactions.

New Fluorescent Dye Can Light Up the Brain

Rice U. lab develops imaging tool that holds promise for cancer treatment

Rice University Scientists Get Fungi to Spill Their Secrets

High-efficiency gene-editing tool significantly improves the pace of new drug discovery

DNA Repair Scheme Gets Closer Look for Cancer Therapy

Rice lab details mechanism of DNA-repair enzyme that’s been linked to cancer

Paying It Forward

When she’s not analyzing data about her favorite biomolecule, senior Sherry Nyeo focuses on improving the undergraduate experience at MIT.

Study: Superconductivity Switches On And Off In “Magic-Angle” Graphene

A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.

Lab Lights Way to Simple Chemical Synthesis

Rice lab photochemistry method eases manufacture of drug, chemical precursors Inexpensive

Targeting Cancer With A Multidrug Nanoparticle

Using bottlebrush-shaped particles, researchers can identify and deliver synergistic combinations of cancer drugs.

Climate Warming Reduces Organic Carbon Burial Beneath Oceans

Painstaking study of 50-plus years of seafloor sediment cores has surprise payoff

More Links Aren’t Necessarily Better for Hybrid Nanomaterials

Adding charge acceptors can slow electron transfer in some light-activated materials

Daylong Wastewater Samples Yield Surprises

Rice method to find antibiotic-resistant genes shows limits of ‘snapshot’ samples, chlorination