Topic: Rice University

Discrimination can be a threat to health, according to a new study that included both blacks and whites.. . The analysis of 2004 data from the...
Cancer Research UK scientists have mapped the first 3D structure of a key protein that protects against the development of cancer.. . The team at...
Using computer models and laboratory experiments, scientists from Rice University and the University of California, San Diego have probed the...
New Hanover County, North Carolina, recently rolled out "Super Wi-Fi," operating in the "white spaces" between 50-700Mhz, where previously only...
New Hanover County in North Carolina on Thursday became the first county in the United States to deploy a Super Wi-Fi network, but the real...
Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built...

Water sees right through graphene

A new study by scientists at Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has determined that gold, copper and silicon get just as wet when...

#62: Star Birth Seen in Action

As a star forms, it attracts a swirling disk of gas and dust. Most of that material collapses into the star. Some remains in orbit, where it clumps...
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), along with other funding agencies, helped a Rice University research team make graphene...
Rice University physicists have developed a new method for making a "quantum spin Hall topological insulator," a chip for future quantum computers...