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A tangle of unprocessed boron nitride nanotubes seen through a scanning electron microscope. Rice University scientists introduced a method to combine them into fibers using the custom wet-spinning process they developed to make carbon nanotube fibers. (Credit: Pasquali Research Group/Rice University)

Boron nitride nanotube fibers get real

June 23, 2022

Rice scientists create the first boron nitride nanotube fibers using the custom wet-spinning process they developed to make carbon nanotube fibers.

Rice University chemists developed a method to add two fragments to an alkene molecule in a single process. The discovery could simplify drug and materials design.

Process to customize molecules does double duty

June 22, 2022

Chemists develop a method to add two fragments to an alkene molecule in a single process, which could simplify drug and materials design.

Rice University physicists used ultracold atoms and a 1D channel of light to simulate electrons in 1D wires and study how two of their intrinsic properties — spin and charge — travel at different speeds.

Rice lab’s quantum simulator delivers new insight

June 16, 2022

A Rice University quantum simulator is giving physicists a clear look at spin-charge separation, a bizarre phenomenon in which two parts of indivisible particles called electrons travel at different speeds in extremely cold 1D wires. The research is published this week in Science and has implications for quantum computing and electronics with atom-scale wires.

A study led by Rice University suggests parents accustomed to home schooling felt more resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic than those whose public-school children were suddenly housebound, especially when the latter parents did not meet recommendations for physical activity.

Schooling status during pandemic predicted parents’ resilience

June 9, 2022

A new study suggests parents accustomed to home schooling felt more resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic than those whose public-school children were suddenly housebound, especially when the latter parents did not meet recommendations for physical activity.

Guido Pagano

Rice physicist wins DOE early career award

June 7, 2022

Physicist Guido Pagano wins a prestigious Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy.

schematic of a light-activated molecular drill

Bacteria-killing drills get an upgrade

June 1, 2022

Rice scientists have created light-activated molecular drills that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Rice University chemists, working with the Ford Motor Company, processes waste plastic from end-of-life trucks into graphene for composite materials in new vehicles.

Cars could get a ‘flashy’ upgrade

May 26, 2022

Rice University chemists, working with the Ford Motor Company, processes waste plastic from end-of-life trucks into graphene for composite materials in new vehicles.

Fluorescent Bacillus subtilis viewed with a confocal microscope

Rice bioengineers are shining light on bacterial stress

May 23, 2022

Rice bioengineers are ready to shine a lot of light on bacteria’s genetic response to stress.

CPRIT awards art

CPRIT grants entice three cancer researchers to Rice

May 20, 2022

Rice University recruits three professors to bolster cancer research with grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

Rice graduate student Tong Chen "detwinning" iron selenide in 2019

Spinning is key for line-dancing electrons in iron selenide

May 20, 2022

Quantum physicists at Rice have helped answer an important question at the forefront of research into superconductivity.

A theoretical framework by Rice University scientists shows how to increase the odds of identifying cancer-causing mutations before tumors take hold. They demonstrate that only a few energetically favorable pathways are likely to lead to cancer.

Rice chemists skew the odds to prevent cancer

May 17, 2022

A theoretical framework by Rice University scientists shows how to increase the odds of identifying cancer-causing mutations before tumors take hold. They demonstrate that only a few energetically favorable pathways are likely to lead to cancer.

Physicist Andriy Nevidomskyy

​​​​​​​Computational sleuthing confirms first 3D quantum spin liquid

May 10, 2022

Physicists have confirmed the first 3D quantum spin liquid, a solid material with a liquidlike magnetic state.

moon during a total lunar eclipse

May 15 lunar eclipse promises outstanding views

May 9, 2022

Rice’s campus observatory will host a public viewing May 15 for a well-timed total lunar eclipse.

Rice University bioscientists have uncovered a tiny detail that could help understand how DNA replicates with such astounding accuracy.

Crystal study may resolve DNA mystery

May 9, 2022

Rice University bioscientists have uncovered a tiny detail that could help understand how DNA replicates with such astounding accuracy.

Doug Natelson and Dale Lowder

Graduate student gets call to Brookhaven

May 9, 2022

Graduate student Dale Lowder has been selected by the Department of Energy to work and study at Brookhaven National Laboratory this fall.

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