Sensory overload impairs female treefrogs’ ability to choose mates
Female Cope’s gray treefrogs appear to suffer from the same problem that confronts humans in crowded stores, overflowing streaming menus and dating apps: too many...
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AI Uses Drone Imagery to Detect Bridge Defects and Assess Structural Condition
A new study is turning ordinary drone flights into a high-tech early-warning system for aging bridges, combining aerial imagery with artificial intelligence to identify defects...
Rice’s Huang Named SPIE Fellow for Contributions to Optics and Photonics
Shengxi Huang, an associate professor in Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a fellow of SPIE, the international society for...
NCI-Supported Obesity and Cancer Research, 2015–2022
Obesity and cancer research has built a substantial evidence base over the past decade, but a new analysis from the National Cancer Institute says important...
Rice Scientists Find New Method to Control Electron Flow in Altermagnet
Altermagnetism, a recently recognized form of magnetism that could reshape the future of computer memory, has taken a significant step toward practical control. Researchers at...
Men Face Higher Tuberculosis Infection Risk Than Women
Tuberculosis continues to affect men disproportionately around the world, and a new study led by researchers at University College London suggests that the disparity is...
Microplastics Contaminate Texas Oysters, Triggering Biochemical Stress and Physiological Damage
Microplastic pollution has reached another critical biological threshold along the Texas Gulf Coast, where oysters are showing biochemical stress and tissue damage linked to exposure...
Turning Nanoscale Industrial Waste Fragments into Aqueous Battery Electrolytes
A waste stream once viewed as an expensive environmental liability could become an active ingredient in safer, longer-lasting batteries. Researchers have developed a strategy that...
MHS552 Antibody Selectively Expands Regulatory T Cells in Models and Healthy Participants
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that MHS552, an engineered antibody carrying a modified form of the immune-signaling molecule interleukin-2, selectively expands functional...
Agentic Profiles Could Strengthen AI Governance
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from systems that answer questions to agents that can pursue objectives, make decisions and act across digital environments. That shift...
Rice lab unveils rapid method to produce advanced materials
MXenes, a family of atomically thin materials known for combining high electrical conductivity with chemically active surfaces, may soon become far easier to manufacture. Researchers...
US Cancer Surgery Waiting Times: National Trends and Key Predictors
Cancer patients are facing increasingly long waits to begin their initial course of treatment after surgery, according to an Original Investigation scheduled for publication in...
KAIST develops eco-friendly, high-efficiency hydrogen membrane using molecular network filtration
Hydrogen is often described as a clean energy carrier, but producing it at the purity required for fuel cells, industrial reactors, and other technologies is...
Vanillin flavoring in e-cigarettes disrupts human embryonic stem cell development
Vanillin, the compound responsible for vanilla’s characteristic aroma, may interfere with the earliest stages of human development when it is inhaled as part of an...
Climbing stairs may lower the risk of premature death
Taking the stairs may do more than get people from one floor to another: it could substantially reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease and premature...