Category: Research

Texas A&M chemist Karen Wooley's laboratory is fighting hemorrhage — a leading cause of death in traumatic injuries — by developing a bioabsorbable wound dressing with encapsulated chitosan nanofibers that, when applied to liver injury sites in animals, dissolves in as little as seven days, eliminating the need for subsequent physical removal and any chance of re-injury in the process

Armed with new Hubble Space Telescope data and an improved technique, a team of astronomers including Texas A&M professor Lucas Macri has made the most accurate measurement of the universe's expansion rate to date — a surprising 4-sigma discrepancy from Planck's prediction that strengthens the case for new physics.

Timing is everything, including with regard to eating. In research published April 16 in Cell Reports, Texas A&M biologist Jerome Menet’s laboratory found that feeding time influences the liver’s biological clock in mice, with possible implications for overall physiology and health.

Texas A&M statistician Valen Johnson is one of about 40 contributing authors featured in The American Statistician special issue on p-values and statistical significance, along with a related Nature March 28 edition Correspondence. While he acknowledges raising standards would make it harder for researchers to publish, Johnson tells Undark magazine he sees potential for more discoveries and better science as researchers gain confidence in previous work and spend less time replicating studies.

Texas could see up to 300 million Monarch butterflies this season following an upward trend in numbers of the state insect of Texas, according to Texas A&M Center for Mathematics and Science Education researcher and butterfly expert Craig Wilson.

New results from STAR experiment show antiquarks' contribution to proton spin depends on "flavor" -- and in a way that's opposite to those flavors' relative abundance

Texas A&M astronomer Jennifer Marshall has been selected as Project Scientist for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project, an 11.25-meter telescope being planned in Hawaii that's capable of studying up to 4,000 astronomical objects at once and positioned to lead the world in multi-object spectroscopy.

Texas A&M ranks first in Texas and 10th nationally among public institutions based on annual research expenditures -- nearly $1 billion! Thanks and gig 'em to all the Texas A&M Science researchers, laboratories, programs and principal investigators who help make such progress possible, not only for Texas A&M University but also for society as a whole -- whoop!

Each summer, undergraduate students from across the state, nation and world spend up to 10 weeks at Texas A&M learning what academic research is all about, courtesy of faculty and graduate student mentors in chemistry, mathematics, and physics and astronomy and the National Science Foundation-funded Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program.

Earlier this month, Texas A&M mathematicians William Johnson and Alexei Poltoratski delivered public lectures based on their respective expertise in Banach space theory and harmonic analysis in Rio de Janeiro as invited speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, a coveted honor reserved for the top mathematicians worldwide.

Thanks to The Battalion for the recent feature on Texas A&M mathematician Anne Shiu and her National Science Foundation CAREER Award-funded research at the intersection of mathematics and biology that includes a new directed reading program for math undergraduates.

"As 20 percent of the world's energy consumption comes from overcoming friction in machines, [we're] excited to have our project, Mastering Friction to Reduce Current and Future Energy Demands, funded by the Texas A&M X-Grants Program to tackle this challenge." -- James Batteas, Texas A&M chemist

After earmarking nearly $850,000 to support cutting-edge interdisciplinary research activities across the Texas A&M campus in its previous two rounds, the College of Science and partners are committing an additional $275,352 toward six new projects to conclude the second year of its collaborative R&D initiative known as the Strategic Transformative Research Program (STRP).

In research featured on the cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the John Gladysz group in Texas A&M Chemistry has made a new type of molecular rotor that shows promise for future development as a functional molecular machine capable of manipulating matter at atomic and subatomic levels and transforming multiple branches of chemistry and myriad industries.

A Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute-led consortium has been awarded a five-year, $10 million Stewardship Science Academic Alliances Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to establish and implement the Center for Excellence in Nuclear Training And University-based Research (CENTAUR).