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Vaccine misinformation at Texas Legislature influences public policy decisions, Rice Baker Institute report says

March 19, 2024

The majority of Texans support vaccines, but a vocal minority are actively working on weakening or dismantling vaccine requirements, according to a journal article published in Vaccine: X from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and The Immunization Partnership.

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How the Houston Symphony stayed ‘jazzy’ during crisis

March 18, 2024

Rice Business’ podcast, Owl Have You Know, is hosting a special live recording event March 25 with New York Times best-selling author Scott Sonenshein and CEO of the Houston Symphony John Mangum.

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Rice research could advance soft robotics manufacturing, design

March 18, 2024

Rice engineers propose a new quantitative framework to account for and predict the impact of temperature on the curing speed of platinum-catalyzed silicone elastomers. The findings could maximize throughput and minimize waste in the manufacturing of components for soft robotics and wearables.

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Rice breakthrough could make automated dosing systems universal

March 15, 2024

Automated insulin dosing systems combine low-cost blood-glucose monitors with insulin pumps that use precision dosing to continuously regulate blood-sugar and hold it steady. Rice synthetic biologists have found a way to piggyback on the technology and make it universally applicable for the precision dosing of virtually any drug.

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Rice energy, geopolitics, innovation experts to speak at CERAWeek

March 15, 2024

A number of experts in energy, carbon, hydrogen, sustainability, geopolitics and innovation from Rice University will appear at CERAWeek, an annual energy conference organized by the information and insights company S&P Global, to present their research or expertise March 18-22.

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What a view: Rice scientists develop a new system to record 2D crystal synthesis in real time

March 15, 2024

A research team at Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering tackled this challenge by developing a custom-built miniaturized chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system capable of observing and recording the growth of 2D molybdenum disulfide crystals in real time.

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Houston hospital prices vary substantially, data shows in Baker Institute report

March 11, 2024

Houston hospitals have significant gaps in their federally mandated price reporting, leading to significant price differences for the same services for consumers, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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Astronomers find water vapor in distant star’s habitable zone

March 8, 2024

Rice University astronomer Andrea Isella and colleagues have reported the first observations of gaseous water in the portion of a protoplanetary disk where a rocky, Earth-like planet might be forming around a distant star.

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Three Houston traffic ‘hot spots’ affect kids’ safety, Baker Institute report says

March 8, 2024

Mapping Houston transportation injuries that have affected children shows several “hot spots” that could use public safety interventions, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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Aluminum nanoparticles make tunable green catalysts

March 5, 2024

The Rice lab of nanotechnology pioneer Naomi Halas has uncovered a transformative approach to harnessing the catalytic power of aluminum nanoparticles by annealing them in various gas atmospheres at high temperatures.

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Rice’s Nai-Hui Chia wins NSF CAREER Award

March 5, 2024

Rice computer scientist Nai-Hui Chia has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop a new theoretical framework to facilitate the development of efficient quantum algorithms for a range of problems in quantum physics and computer science as well as enhance the security of quantum cryptography.

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Religion and science beliefs affect attitudes toward mental illness, Rice study finds

March 5, 2024

Beliefs about the relationship between religion and science may be a key factor in people’s views on mental health conditions like anxiety and depression, especially in minority racial communities, according to new research from Rice University.

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Radiation from massive stars shapes nascent planetary systems

March 4, 2024

NASA has released the first stunning images of the Orion Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope in a study in the journal Science that shows with unprecedented precision how massive stars impact the formation of planetary systems.

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Rice’s Wiess School launches Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences

March 4, 2024

The Wiess School of Natural Sciences at Rice University has launched the Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences to improve the capture, analysis and interpretation of images at the nanometer scale. The center will push the frontiers of nanoscale imaging, contributing to breakthroughs in fields such as nanotechnology, materials science, biology and biomedicine.

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Rice physicist earns NSF CAREER Award to revolutionize quantum technology

March 1, 2024

Yonglong Xie, assistant professor of physics at Rice University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The $888,555 grant over five years will support Xie’s research into harnessing magnons, quantum mechanical wavelike objects in magnetic materials, to create synthetic matter and develop next-generation quantum devices and sensors.

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