Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power distribution...
Materials Sciences |The facility has just opened as the largest tenant in the new Maryland International Incubator, a joint project of the University of Maryland and the state Department of Business and Economic Developm...
Business and Finance |And young black women showed significant declines in exercise between 1984 and 2006, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the October issue of the American Journal of Public ...
Studies and Analyses |Beams, columns and beam-column connections are specially designed in “structural steel special moment frames” to withstand building sway during the ground shaking that accompanies earthquakes. ...
Architecture and Construction |The group taking varenicline, sold as a stop-smoking aid under the name Chantix, reported feeling fewer cravings for alcohol and less intoxicated when they did drink. They were also much more likely t...
Studies and Analyses |"This kind of information provides a target for the production of drugs against cancer," said Dr. Bert O'Malley, chair of molecular and cellular biology at BCM. "One can already fi...
Life Sciences |Pneumococcus is a bacterium which causes a lot of illness and disease in the very young and the elderly, including pneumonia and meningitis. Large numbers of pneumonia deaths occur in children every y...
Life Sciences |Led by Virginia Davis, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Aleksandr Simonian, professor of materials engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Auburn...
Life Sciences |A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation). They have two suspects, traces of assault and battery, but no corpse.The southern planetary nebula ...
Physics and Astronomy |The University of Sunderland will welcome VIPs and renowned Irish experts from the UK, Ireland the USA, Japan, Australia, Latvia, Malawi, Canada, Italy and Tunisia. This is the fifth annual Irish Conf...
Event News |The birth secret of buckyballs -- hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA -- has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Rice University. An electron micr...
Physics and Astronomy |A tiny single-celled organism that plays a key role in the carbon cycle of cold-water oceans may be a lot smarter than scientists had suspected.In a paper published June 11 in the online versi...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |A new study by Rice University scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms.The research, which has been published online...
Physics and Astronomy |They will help 11-14-year-old children to take advantage of the very latest in hand-held computer technology — both in the classroom and at home.The project brings together University of Notti...
Information Technology |In the first experiments of their kind, researchers at Rice University and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that carbon nanotubes injected directly into the bloodst...
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