A new study from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business finds that customers of eBay who participate in the company’s online communities become more conservative buyers and more selective and efficient sellers.
The study, “The Impact…
Mexican-Americans who are most integrated into the culture — including those born in the United States, and not recent immigrants — appear less healthy and more likely to require resources to manage their health conditions than more recent, less-i…
DURHAM, N.C. — A key focus of the health care debate has involved immigrants and their impact on the U.S. health care system.
A new study shows that Mexican Americans most integrated into the culture — including those born in the United States …
HOUSTON — (Dec. 13, 2010) — European and U.S. physicists this week are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is the driving force behind unconventional superconductivity. The findings by researchers from Rice University, the Max Pl…
You can touch a functioning light bulb and know right away that it’s hot. Ouch! But you can’t touch a single molecule and get the same feedback.
Rice University researchers say they have the next best thing — a way to determine the temperature o…
College students whose parents have remained married to each other are faring better financially than their peers with divorced or remarried parents, according to new research from Rice University and the University of Wisconsin.
The study, publi…
HOUSTON — (Dec. 8, 2010) — Physicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry’s mainstay materials — gallium arsenide semiconductors — as an ultrasensitive microwave det…
HOUSTON — (Dec. 6, 2010) — With new tools that can grab individual strands of DNA and stretch them like rubber bands, Rice University scientists are working to unravel a mystery of modern genomics. Their latest findings, which appear in Physic…
New research at Rice University could ultimately show scientists the way to make batches of nanotubes of a single type.
A paper in the online journal Physical Review Letters unveils an elegant formula by Rice University physicist Boris Yakobson an…
Rice University researchers have discovered a simple way to make carbon nanotubes shine brighter.
The Rice lab of researcher Bruce Weisman, a pioneer in nanotube spectroscopy, found that adding tiny amounts of ozone to batches of single-walled car…
People who are deemed social misfits or “losers” aren’t effective leaders, even if they are crusading for a cause that would benefit a larger group, according to new research from Rice University, the University of Texas and Universitat de Valencia….
Children aren’t the only youngsters who are picky eaters: More than half of all species are believed to change their diets — sometimes more than once — between birth and adulthood. And a new study by ecologists at Rice University and the Universit…
