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Patrick Hartigan

Rice astronomer available to discuss James Webb Space Telescope

December 15, 2021

Rice astronomer Patrick Hartigan is available to comment on the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects

December 10, 2021

Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.

illustration showing what the TRAPPIST-1 system might look like

Orbital harmony limits late arrival of water on TRAPPIST-1 planets

November 25, 2021

Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that harmony to determine how much physical abuse the planets could have withstood in their infancy.

Rice University physicist Guido Pagano is part of a team that reported in Nature the first evidence of many-body localization of particles without disorder. The phenomenon, which has relevance for quantum computing, involves removing disorder from a chain of particles to create a gradient that preserves the particles’ memory of their initial state.

Rice prof’s Nature paper details unique quantum phenomenon

November 18, 2021

Rice physicist Guido Pagano is part of a team reporting in Nature on the discovery of a new phenomenon in quantum systems.

Prions, aggregates implicated in neurological diseases, may also have an important function in helping regulate the transcription of messenger RNA in memory formation.

Prions may channel RNA’s messages

November 15, 2021

Prions, aggregates implicated in neurological diseases, may also have an important function in helping regulate the transcription of messenger RNA in memory formation.

Andrea Isella

US future in astronomy subject of survey

November 3, 2021

The United States’ investment in astronomy is the subject of tomorrow’s long-awaited ASTRO2020 survey, an influential report issued every decade by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to identify the nation’s most compelling astrophysics goals.

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People, papers and presentations for Oct. 18, 2021

October 18, 2021

People, papers and presentations for Oct. 18, 2021

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People, papers and presentations for Oct. 11, 2021

October 11, 2021

People, papers and presentations for Oct. 11, 2021

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Best yet to come for stellar jet researchers

October 8, 2021

New findings about stellar jets also provide a path forward for astronomers awaiting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Gustavo Scuseria

American Chemical Society honors Gustavo Scuseria

September 27, 2021

Rice University’s Gustavo Scuseria wins the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry.

A Living Systems Network

NSF extends Physics of Living Systems network at Rice

September 27, 2021

The NSF awards nearly $3 million to the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics to continue its leadership role in the Physics of Living Systems graduate research network.

Rice physicists teamed with colleagues at Europe's Large Hadron Collider to study matter-generating collisions of light. Researchers showed the departure angle of debris from the smashups is subtly distorted by quantum interference patterns in the light prior to impact. Illustration by 123rf.com

Physicists probe light smashups to guide future research

September 20, 2021

Using computational models and atomic force microscope experiments, researchers at the University of Houston and Rice University have identified a possible “Achilles’ heel” in the frustration of amyloid beta peptides as they dock to the fibrils that form plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s. The frustrated steps could open a window for drugs able to cap the fibril ends, preventing further aggregation. (Credit: Illustration by Yuechuan Xu/Peter Vekilov/University of Houston)

Docking peptides, slow to lock, open possible path to treat Alzheimer’s

September 13, 2021

Researchers have identified a possible “Achilles’ heel” in the frustration of amyloid beta peptides as they dock to the fibrils that form plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Simulations by scientists at the Rice University-based Center for Theoretical Biological Physics suggest how the SARS-CoV-2 spike infects cells. The illustration shows how the spike reconfigures itself in microseconds as it goes from pre- to post-fusion with target cells. The researchers suggest their work to reveal the mechanism by which the virus spreads could lead to new strategies to defeat COVID-19.

Sim shows how COVID virus infects cells

August 31, 2021

A simulation shows the complicated mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus may infect cells, leading to COVID-19.

Electrical conduction on the surface of the topological insulator bismuth iodide (pink and green arrows) transitions from the 2D sides (left) to the 1D edges of those sides (right) when the material is cooled to a critical temperature around 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Image courtesy of Jianwei Huang/Rice University

Physicists find room-temperature, 2D-to-1D topological transition

August 24, 2021

Physicists have discovered a room-temperature transition between 1D and 2D electrical conduction states in the topological insulator bismuth iodide.

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