Across two studies involving workers in the United States and United Kingdom, researchers found a consistent pattern: employees who doomscroll at work are more likely to ruminate on the negative information they encounter, and that rumination contributes to lower work engagement.

A landmark partnership between the Wet’suwet’en Nation and UBC is pioneering a made-in-B.C. solution to the global plastic crisis, turning local forestry waste into biodegradable foam packaging.

Less than a year after earning his doctoral degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Rice University, Thiago J. Pinheiro is already helping tackle one of the fundamental challenges facing fusion energy — using some of the world’s most advanced computing tools. Pinheiro is now a postdoctoral research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he studies the atomic-scale behavior of molten salts and other materials relevant to energy technologies. He recently played a key role in a collaboration among ORNL, Cleveland Clinic and IBM that performed the first known quantum computing calculations on molecular structures in a molten salt relevant to fusion energy.

A new Rice Brain Institute collaboration is bringing together robotics, neuroscience and clinical expertise to explore a more active approach to stroke rehabilitation. Led by Keya Ghonasgi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Simon Fischer-Baum, associate professor of psychological sciences, the project will use a full-arm bilateral wearable exoskeleton robot to examine whether allowing a stroke patient’s dominant arm to guide movement in the more affected arm can better activate the damaged motor system and improve movement quality and rehabilitation.