Tag: Rice University

It's going to take some public pressure to get non-exclusive licensing, essentially an industry standard like WiFi rather than a ...

What's really great here is what Knez used to make the insulator. It's a commercial-grade semiconductor already used to make ...

There is only one reason college football continues to grow. Politics. A school with a big-time football team gains power ...

Each generation's breakthroughs end the previous one's nightmares, and are built on top of that previous generation's breakthroughs.

Because Rice long ago broke down the walls separating disciplines, because it was necessary in order to do large projects ...

There are few guarantees with cutting-edge university research, especially in materials science. You can't say Lockheed is "stealing" the commercial ...

Imagine a fleet of black, black Buckyballoons, flying across from Hawaii to the mainland, powered by small fuel cells, filled ...

Measuring molecules is difficult, because they're small. Problem solved, by the Natelson Group in Rice's old Space Science building.

Whether it's turning glycerin into ethanol, using biological processes to grow drugs, creating new kinds of chips, or just curing ...

Cuban-born professor Ramon Gonzalez and post-doc Syed Shams Yazdani have announced a way to turn glycerin into ethanol using a ...