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Architecture studio wins honors in Seoul

December 3, 2021

With perseverance, a Rice Architecture studio landed a top prize in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021.

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Patents as loan collateral can help businesses meet financial needs, study shows

December 3, 2021

Patents are becoming an innovative source of collateral for businesses borrowing money, and there’s a time-critical sweet spot for lenders trying to calculate how much those patents are worth, according to new research from Rice University experts and collaborators.

Microplastics adsorbing phages

Microplastic pollution aids antibiotic resistance

December 2, 2021

Microplastics dispersed in the environment may enhance antibiotic resistance. A study led by Rice University found the chemical-leaching plastics draw bacteria and other vectors and make them susceptible to antibiotic resistant genes.

SARS-CoV-2 spike

Omicron mutations may help SARS-CoV-2 evade antibodies

December 2, 2021

Software under development at Rice University and its partners reveals mutations in the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 that may help it evade antibodies, including those from vaccinations.

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.

A two-dimensional coat of a perovskite compound is the basis for an efficient solar cell that might stand up to environmental wear and tear

Ultrathin solar cells get a boost

November 22, 2021

Rice University engineers boost the efficiency while retaining the toughness of solar cells made of two-dimensional perovskites.

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.

Testing magnetene

Magnetene’s ultra-low friction explained

November 17, 2021

Rice scientists help make the first measurements of ultra-low friction in 2D magnetene.

Rice University computer scientist Ashumali Shrivastava and graduate student Ben Coleman

Big data privacy for machine learning just got 100 times cheaper

November 16, 2021

Rice University computer scientists have discovered an inexpensive way for tech companies to implement a rigorous form of personal data privacy when using or sharing large databases for machine learning.

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Houston must take steps now to preserve affordable housing for future, report says

November 16, 2021

Houston’s supply of affordable housing is on the decline, and a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research says the city must take advantage of community, state and federal support to reverse the trend.

Hopsital floor

Private equity-acquired hospitals focus on increasing provision of technology-intensive, profitable services, study says

November 15, 2021

As a growing number of hospitals face unprecedented financial challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is concern that they might become acquisition targets by private equity firms. New research from Duke University and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy indicates those hospitals are significantly more likely to offer services that maximize profit and cut those that don't.

A sample of noscapine, which Rice University researchers used as a precursor in their synthesis of setigerumine I.

Rice lab first to mimic molecule found in poppies

November 15, 2021

A Rice undergraduate leads the discovery of a way to synthesize a rare molecule drawn from poppies.

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.

A study by Rice University materials scientists shows it may be possible to grow borophene -- 2D boron -- in a way that allows for easy separation from a substrate. They calculated that borophene grown on hexagonal boron nitride allows for nucleation of borophene along the edges of steps in the substrate.

Weak bonds a strength in making borophene

November 12, 2021

Rice University researchers show how borophene, the 2D form of boron, can be grown to simplify its use for applications.

Inoculating a mask

Rice lab details conditions to decontaminate disposable masks

November 12, 2021

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, establish a framework for properly decontaminating disposable facemasks.

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