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2,050-Year-Old Roman Tomb Offers Insights On Ancient Concrete Resilience

New research on ancient Roman concrete inspires durable and sustainable modern constructions.

Actively Addressing Inequalities Promotes Social Change

People who have contact with other social groups are more likely to be committed to social justice. However, an international study led by the University of Zurich has shown that for this to be the case, power relations and discrimination must be actively addressed and group-specific needs must be met. It is important that disadvantaged group members, such as racial minorities and LGBTIQ+ individuals, are given a voice, and that those who belong to advantaged groups do not feel labeled as biased.

Save Our Pollinators, Save Our World

The director of the Texas A&M Honey Bee Lab explains the large role these small insects and animals play in our food supply.

Biologists Construct a ‘Periodic Table’ for Cell Nuclei

Project to classify nuclei across the tree of life discovers how to transmute them from one type into another

Upcycling Plastic Waste Into High-Performing Mechanical Lubricants

New research could mean fewer adverse impacts from plastic waste and cheaper lubricants used in vehicles and industrial activities.

Pristine Quantum Criticality Found

Study: Quantum fluctuations may give rise to topological phases of matter

These Neural Networks Know What They’re Doing

A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training.

Bio-Inspired Scaffolds Help Promote Muscle Growth

Rice University bioengineers adapt extracellular matrix for electrospinning

New Organ-On-A-Chip Finds Crucial Interaction Between Blood, Ovarian Cancer Tumors

The microdevice can be used to observe how cancer cells interact with vascular and blood cells and test novel ways to treat the disease.

Preventing Life-Threatening Pediatric Condition Starts with Pandemic Safeguards

Early identification of children’s syndrome after COVID-19 infection is crucial, Rice researchers say

Feds Back Probe of Understudied Gut Nervous System

Uribe wins NIH grant to study enteric nervous system development

A "Muscular" Response to Regeneration

Neuromuscular disorders affect millions of people worldwide.

Accelerating The Discovery Of New Materials For 3D Printing

A new machine-learning system costs less, generates less waste, and can be more innovative than manual discovery methods.

How Planets Form Controls Elements Essential for Life

Rice scientists attribute Earth’s nitrogen to rapid growth of moon- to Mars-sized bodies

Found: A Protective Probiotic For ALS

A probiotic bacterium called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 prevents neurodegeneration in the C. elegans worm, an animal model used to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

In Graphene Process, Resistance Is Useful

Rice lab uses laser-induced graphene process to create micron-scale patterns in photoresist

Flatfish Got Weird Fast Due to Evolutionary Cascade

Study: Skull asymmetry arose rapidly from trait co-evolution

Silver Ions Hurry Up, Then Wait as They Disperse

Rice chemists show ions’ staged release from gold-silver nanoparticles could be useful property

Rainfall in the Arctic May Soon Be More Common Than Snowfall

More rain than snow will fall in the Arctic – and this transition will occur decades earlier than previously predicted, a new study reports.

Kumon or Montessori? It May Depend on Your Politics, Study of 8,500 Parents Finds

Whether parents prefer a conformance-oriented or independence-oriented supplemental education program for their children depends on political ideology, according to a study of more than 8,500 American parents by a research team from Rice and the University of Texas at San Antonio.