Researchers create new database to track origins of water from space
Rice researchers have created a database of global water isotope data.
Rice Urban Sustainability Hackathon winners announced
The Rice Urban Sustainability Hackathon has announced its two winning teams.
Rice researchers develop new way to quickly recycle electronic waste
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream.
Career awards showcase layers of excellence in Rice science department
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasing excellence at every stage of career.
Rice graduate student starts club to help adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends.
‘An investment in people’: Rice physics professor earns Packard Fellowship
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship.
Rice’s Caroline Ajo-Franklin is part of an international research team funded by the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), under its Universal Fabricator program.
Rice scientists engineer new tool to improve detection of HIV and other viruses
Rice researchers have developed an improved version of Cas13a that could make it easier to detect HIV and other RNA viruses in blood and environmental samples.
New monolithic ion trap developed for accessible quantum simulations
Rice’s Guido Pagano, along with collaborators at Duke University and Translume Inc., has developed a new kind of trapped-ion simulator, called a monolithic segmented 3D ion trap.
Improved precision microscopy method developed by Rice professor
Rice’s Anna-Karin Gustavsson published a method in Nano Letters expanding the use of light sheet microscopy to include a single objective in commercially available sample chambers.
Rice researchers find evidence of true polar wander
Rice researchers find evidence of movement in the Earth's spin axis 56-48 million years ago.
Rice researchers discover magnetic liquid crystal state in rare earth compound
In a recent study published in Physical Review X, Rice researchers showed YbMnBi₂'s magnetic spins prefer certain directions even when fluctuating.
New catalogs map quantum possibilities of atomically thin materials
In two papers published in Science Sept. 24, an international collaboration provides both the building blocks and a guide to the search for families of twistronics.
Rice community mourns Maxwell Plummer, mathematics graduate student
Maxwell Plummer, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Rice’s mathematics department, passed away the week of Sept. 7. He was 26 years old.
New method identifies leukemia drug candidates and target
Rice's Natasha Kirienko developed a new screening method that identified drugs that target leukemia cells without unduly harming healthy cells.