“Smart” Shirt Uses Flexible Carbon Nanotube Fibers To Keep Tabs on the Heart
Rice’s flexible carbon nanotube fibers woven into clothing gather accurate EKG, heart rate. There’s no need to don uncomfortable smartwatches or chest straps to monitor…
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Bioengineers Using 3D Printing and Smart Biomaterials To Create an Insulin-Producing Implant for Type 1 Diabetes
JDRF funds creation of implant to automatically regulate blood glucose levels. Rice University bioengineers are using 3D printing and smart biomaterials to create an insulin-producing…
In Search of Planets That Support Life: “Cool” Stars in the Cosmos May Not Be So Unique
Rice models infer small stars share similar dynamics to our sun, key to planet habitability. Stars scattered throughout the cosmos look different, but they may…
Nightside Radio Could Help Reveal Details of Exoplanets in Distant Solar Systems
Rice team enhances models that will detect magnetospheres in distant solar systems. We can’t detect them yet, but radio signals from distant solar systems could…
Highly Efficient Solar Energy Collectors Grown From Microscopic Seeds
Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystals. Rice University engineers have created microscopic seeds for growing remarkably uniform 2D perovskite crystals that are…
Toward Safer Breast Implants: How Implant Surfaces Affect Immune Response
Six-year effort includes researchers from Rice, MD Anderson, Baylor College of Medicine. Rice University bioengineers collaborated on a six-year study that systematically analyzed how the…
Understanding Frustration Could Lead to Better Medications
Rice scientists’ atomic resolution protein models reveal new details about protein binding. Knowing precisely where proteins are frustrated could go a long way toward making…
Hexagonal Boron Nitride’s Incredible Toughness Unmasked – “What We Observed … Is Remarkable!”
2D material resists cracking and description by century-old theory of fracture mechanics. It’s official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials,…
Biologists Construct a “Periodic Table” for Cell Nuclei – And Discover Something Strange, Baffling and Unexpected
One hundred fifty years ago, Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table, a system for classifying atoms based on the properties of their nuclei. This week,…
RAMBO Reveals Magnetic Phenomenon Useful for Quantum Simulation and Sensing
Odd Angles Make for Strong Spin-Spin Coupling Sometimes things are a little out of whack, and it turns out to be exactly what you need….
How Planets Form Determines Whether They Retain Elements Essential for Life
Earth’s nitrogen attributed to rapid growth of moon- to Mars-sized bodies. According to Rice University scientists, the possibilities for life on a particular planet rely…
Does Selfishness Evolve? Ask a Cannibal
Study confirms evolutionary link between social structure and selfishness. One of nature’s most prolific cannibals could be hiding in your pantry, and biologists have used…
Old Tires Turned Into Graphene That Makes Stronger Concrete
Rice University lab’s optimized flash process could reduce carbon emissions. This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists have optimized…
Hidden Structure Found in Essential Metabolic Machinery – “I Didn’t Think It Was Real”
Discovery “requires us to rethink everything we thought we knew about peroxisomes.” In his first year of graduate school, Rice University biochemist Zachary Wright discovered…
Microfluidic Chip Simplifies COVID-19 Testing, Delivers Results on a Phone in 55 Minutes or Less
Programmed magnetic nanobeads enable diagnostic device designed at Rice University. COVID-19 can be diagnosed in 55 minutes or less with the help of programmed magnetic…
Bottling the World’s Coldest Plasma to Unlock the Secrets of Fusion Power
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power. Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world’s coldest plasma in a…
Luminescent Solar Waveguide Windows Generate Energy From Inside and Out
Rice engineers develop polymer cores that redirect light from any source to solar cells. Rice University engineers have suggested a colorful solution to next-generation energy…
A New Class of Superconductors: Commonly Mistaken Name Leads to Discovery
A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity arises in a diverse set of compounds might never have happened if physicists Qimiao Si and…
