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Rice University computational and applied mathematician Beatrice Riviere has been selected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Riviere is among 28 new fellows announced this week by the 14,000-member…

Facial beauty and attractiveness are not universally perceived. Instead, according to new research, it is culture and individual preferences that shape the diverse spectrum of what we think is facially attractive.A new study, led by…

Metamaterials that can control the refractive direction of light or absorb it to enable invisible cloaks are gaining attention. Recently, a research team at POSTECH has designed a metasurface that can control the acoustic or elastic…

The Center for International Education and Exchange (CIEE) and the Health and Counseling Center (HaCC) co-hosted this event, which was held on both the Toyonaka (3/30) and Suita (3/19) Campuses. The aim of this event was to provide some…

Access to clean water is a pressing issue for many people around the world. Even in areas with ample water resources, a lack of infrastructure or reliable energy means purifying that water is sometimes extremely difficult.That’s why a…

Speciality chemicals are used in a range of products that impact on people’s everyday lives including fuel additives for the automotive industry, personal care products, clothing and gel hand sanitisers. If we continue to use these…

With a generous gift of $1.1 million, philanthropist Ann Bedell Hunt has established The Bedell Family Endowed Medical Scholarship at University of California San Diego School of Medicine in memory of her father, Omar Jaspering, and in…

Identification of neural circuits clarifies motor vs. cognitive symptoms, aiding efforts to improve treatmentsA three-dimensional rendering of a mouse hemisphere shows brain-wide projection patterns of GPe neurons labeled by mRuby2 (soma,…

James McKerrow, MD, PhD, dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego, has long studied neglected tropical diseases — chronic and disabling parasitic infections that primarily…

Comfortable, affordable and extremely sustainable. Those are the three characteristics of the future-proof house that Team CASA - a student team from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) - is building together with construction…