Tech tackles a familiar pain in the neck
A tiny clip-on device that detects bad posture could help tackle “tech neck” and reduce back pain among office workers.
Lightbulb moments
Where I Work: Viswasanthi Chandra
Art at the cutting edge of coral reef research
Drawing inspiration from deep time
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Tech tackles a familiar pain in the neck
A tiny clip-on device that detects bad posture could help tackle “tech neck” and reduce back pain among office workers.
Design school powers engineers in photovoltaic skills
A new short course for engineers in Saudi Arabia is helping to develop the expertise in photovoltaic solar design to achieve Vision 2030 sustainability goals.
Lightbulb moments
Illuminating the twisting pathway to efficient wireless communications based on light.
Where I Work: Viswasanthi Chandra
How studying ancient rocks may help to guide us toward a low-carbon-energy future.
Art at the cutting edge of coral reef research
From lens to lab, artists and scientists have been capturing the critters hidden in coral reefs.
Drawing inspiration from deep time
A passion for representing facts in an elegant way has led KAUST’s Ivan Gromicho to recreate past and present worlds through infographic design.
A shape-shifting approach to industrial design
Design and computer modeling play a key role in developing chemical reactors and new separation processes for this multidisciplinary team.
Helping Saudi solar shine, no matter the weather
Real-world testing enables local industry to profit from the unique climate of the Middle East.
Where I work: Muath Alamri
From a childhood love of working with his hands, to creating scientific tools that meet a very precise brief.
A predictive eye on the prize
Climate prediction models have had a mathematical makeover that has won attention from a computer science award.
Perseverance douses debate
After a year-long effort, KAUST researchers settle controversial claims about water microdroplets.
Where I work: Vanessa Melino
An interest in gardening sparked a career in developing salt tolerant crops to support food security.
Sparks of inspiration
Curiosity and perseverance combine to unmask the mystery metal at the heart of a green-fuel-forming reaction.
Salute to the sun
Students from diverse backgrounds pool their expertise to develop a sun-tracking technology for solar cells.
Divers spot manta rays for science
Intriguing insights into the region’s oceanic manta rays are revealed thanks to a collaborative citizen science project conducted over lockdown.
Animated art takes small steps to communicate big concepts
A team uses stop motion art to break down the results of metal-organic framework research.
Giving global pollutants the cold shoulder
A collaboration with KAUST researchers helps a multinational company rethink ways to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions using catalysts.
Concrete solutions for sea turtle survival
An environmental foundation and a cement factory are supporting ongoing efforts and research to help safeguard the future of Red Sea turtles.
Better health from better data
Partnerships that deliver diverse and robust big data underpin new ways to tackle disease.
Putting MENA’s pathogenic variants on the global map
Arnab Pain and colleagues had the foresight to be prepared to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 virus and place its local variants on the global genome map.
A winning team effort
Winning machine learning models for a prestigious international competition have implications for understanding how single cells differ, despite their common genetic blueprint.
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