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Rice University graduate student Valeriia Sobolevskaia at the on-campus well site being developed to help geoscientists continue development of fiber-optic sensors to find and evaluate small faults at underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs. (Credit: Ajo-Franklin Lab/Rice University)

Seismic study will help keep carbon underground

June 17, 2021

A Department of Energy grant to Rice geoscientists enables development of fiber-optic sensors to find and evaluate small faults at underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs.

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How planets form controls elements essential for life

May 10, 2021

How a planet comes together has implications for whether it retains the nitrogen, carbon and water that eventually give rise to life.

Madison Morris watches the Mars landing

Unconventional Students at Rice 2021: Madison Morris has her eye on Mars

April 12, 2021

Madison Morris ’21 knew two things about herself early on in life: She had an interest in space exploration and she loved Rice University.

Rice Carbon Hub

Seven research teams win Carbon Hub funding

March 8, 2021

Carbon Hub, Rice University's zero-emissions research initiative, has awarded seed grants for seven projects that will rapidly advance its vision for transforming the oil and gas sector into a leading provider of both clean hydrogen energy and solid carbon products that can be used in place of materials with large carbon footprints.

Utah FORGE has completed drilling of its first deviated well, a critical step in the enhanced geothermal project backed by the Department of Energy. Rice University scientists have been tapped to join the project to accelerate breakthroughs in geothermal systems that could someday provide unlimited, inexpensive energy. (Credit: Eric Larson)

Rice team forges path toward geothermal future

February 26, 2021

Rice scientists have joined a federal project to accelerate breakthroughs in geothermal systems for unlimited, inexpensive energy.

Kirsten Siebach reacts as the Perseverance rover hits the bullseye, landing at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. Photo by Brandon Martin

Mars, happy to see you again

February 22, 2021

Be there with Martian geologist Kirsten Siebach as the Perseverance rover lands on Mars.

Mark Torres with water samples collected from Iceland's Efri Haukadalsá River in 2016.

Mark Torres wins Geochemical Society’s Clarke Award

February 12, 2021

Mark Torres with water samples collected from Iceland's Efri Haukadalsá River in 2016. (Photo by Woodward Fisher)

Postdoc Chenguang Sun wins mineralogical society award

January 6, 2021

A colorized image of Jezero Crater, the target for NASA’s Perseverance rover. Kirsten Siebach, a Martian geologist at Rice University, is one of 13 scientists selected to help operate the rover. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL)

Rice scientist joins next Mars adventure

December 2, 2020

A Rice University geologist is one of 13 scientists recently selected to operate the Mars rover Perseverance and analyze samples for an eventual return to Earth.

Image from a seismic study in northeastern China that shows both the top and bottom boundaries of a tectonic plate that formerly sat at bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China

November 16, 2020

In a study that gives new meaning to the term "rock bottom," seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth's lithosphere that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern China by the process of tectonic subduction.

South Keeling Island, an atoll in the Indian Ocean's Cocos Islands, as seen from NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite on July 31, 2009

Study: Darwin's theory about coral reef atolls is fatally flawed

October 12, 2020

Rice marine geologist and oceanographer André Droxler knows Charles Darwin's theory about atoll formation is incorrect, and Droxler and former Rice postdoc Stéphan Jorry are hoping to set the record straight with a comprehensive new paper about the subject.

Brazilian emeralds in a quartz-pegmatite matrix. (Photo courtesy of Madereugeneandrew/Wikimedia Commons)

Earth grows fine gems in minutes

October 6, 2020

Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon and topaz are but a few of the crystalline minerals found mostly in pegmatites, veinlike formations that commonly contain both large crystals and hard-to-find elements like tantalum and niobium. Another common find is lithium, a vital component of electric car batteries.

Blocks of dense, blue ice the size of convenience stores can be seen breaking away from Thwaites Glacier in a February 2019 photograph taken from the deck of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer. (Photo by Linda Welzenbach)

Ocean water could melt precarious Antarctic glacier

September 28, 2020

Rice University researchers, alumni and staff are part of an international effort that has discovered a pathway for warm ocean water to melt the underside of Thwaites Glacier, a precarious body of west Antarctic ice that could add as much as 25 inches to global sea level if it were to suffer a runaway collapse.

Dale Sawyer

Rice mourns geophysicist, former college magister Dale Sawyer

September 21, 2020

The professor emeritus was esteemed around the world for his scientific leadership in marine geophysics.

Kirsten Siebach and Scott Solomon in the debut episode of "Life 2.0"

Solomon, Siebach appear in science TV series 'Life 2.0'

September 4, 2020

Rice faculty members Scott Solomon and Kirsten Sieback appear in the first episode of "Life 2.0," a new television series that's available for streaming and slated to debut on the air this weekend.

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