X-rays show how light transforms photosynthesis ‘switch’
January 7, 2020
Researchers at Rice and their colleagues get their first detailed look at how plant proteins reconfigure themselves when exposed to light.
Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
January 2, 2020
Theoretical simulations at Rice University suggest structural maintenance of chromosome proteins coil not only around each other but also around the strands of DNA they help manipulate. These strands are formed into loops that regulate transcription and other cellular processes.
Physicists find first possible 3D quantum spin liquid
July 15, 2019
Rice physicists show cerium zirconium pyrochlore qualifies as the first possible 3D quantum spin liquid.
Nanotubes assemble! Rice introduces ‘Teslaphoresis’
April 14, 2016
Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil causes carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires, a phenomenon they call “Teslaphoresis.”
Nanotech pioneer, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62
October 28, 2005
Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of the buckyball, died from cancer in Houston. He was 62.