A graduate research university on the Red Sea pairing deep strengths in energy, water and marine science with fast-growing ambitions in AI and photonics.
Microsensor measurements reveal that acute heat stress starves coral tissue of oxygen, helping explain why some corals die within days rather than bleaching slowly.
A Nature study co-authored at KAUST models the nutrient content of more than 50,000 aquatic invertebrate species and finds a vast, underused reservoir of dietary minerals and vitamins.
KAUST genome engineers show for the first time that R2-mediated gene addition works in plants, opening a route to inserting whole biosynthetic pathways into crops.
A skin-worn aptamer sensor developed at KAUST continuously monitors vancomycin in the fluid between skin cells, pointing towards truly personalised drug dosing.
KAUST photonics researchers turn the unpredictable output of tiny semiconductor lasers into a stream of high-entropy cryptographic keys, reported in Nature Electronics.
A global analysis of 1,602 soils from 59 countries, co-authored at KAUST, finds that diverse soil microbiomes suppress bacteria capable of infecting people.
Three decades of telemetry from 15,845 whales, sharks and turtles reveal that marine megafauna spend over 85 per cent of their time outside protected areas.
A flexible manganese oxide film that learns from different colours of light could let machine-vision systems process images where they are captured.
KAUST's AI4BioMedicine lab proposes a multimodal foundation transformer that fuses DNA sequences, gene expression, spatial maps and images into a single model of the cell.
From coral probiotics to a 100-hectare reef digital twin, four KAUST programmes are testing how far science can stretch the lifespan of reefs under heat stress.
Modelling electrolysers as complete plants rather than bare stacks shows more accurately how green hydrogen production can stabilise grids dominated by wind and solar.
KAUST and UC Santa Barbara researchers quantify how much optical feedback quantum dot lasers can tolerate, strengthening the case for isolator-free photonic chips.
Analysis of 1,211 reef sites across 23 jurisdictions quantifies, for the first time at global scale, the food gains available from restoring overfished coral reef fisheries.
A double-cable polymer designed at KAUST harvests the infrared half of the solar spectrum and produces hydrogen 57 times faster than its single-component baseline.
A fluorinated ether making up about 3 per cent of the electrolyte lets sodium metal cells retain 90 per cent of capacity after 1,200 cycles, KAUST researchers report in Joule.
KAUST's AllergE microneedle sensor detects the allergy antibody IgE at concentrations as low as 30 picograms per millilitre, directly from the fluid beneath the skin.
KAUST researchers calculate that solar-powered airships at 20 kilometres altitude could cut the cooling energy of trapped-ion quantum processors by 21 per cent.
Simulations at KAUST predict a Janus altermagnet whose thermal conductivity drops nineteen-fold, yielding a thermoelectric figure of merit of 2.7 at 500 kelvin.