In the first-of-its-kind analysis of Groupon’s impact on a startup company, a new Rice University study found that the daily deal promotion was beneficial even though it had no material impact on the company’s profits when unredeemed Groupons were n…
More than 20 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual, according to new research from Rice University. Though the general public marries spirituality and religion, the study found that spirituality is a separate idea — one that more closely ali…
Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries.
The student’s used Capteur Soleil, a device created deca…
HOUSTON — (May 3, 2011) — A Rice University-led team of physicists this week offered up one of the first theoretical explanations of how two dissimilar types of high-temperature superconductors behave in similar ways.
The research appears online…
Without sufficient investments in upstream oil field activities utilizing new and advanced technologies, Mexico faces the prospect of becoming a net oil importer in 10 years, according to new research by Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institut…
An invention by Rice University bioengineering students in collaboration with the Texas Heart Institute (THI) is geared toward giving immediate second chances to arrhythmia victims headed toward cardiac arrest.
For their capstone design project, a…
Rice University bioengineering students responded to an ophthalmologist’s cry for help with a device to diagnose dry eye, the itching and burning sensation that results when a person doesn’t produce enough tears or the tears evaporate too quickl…
Physicists at Rice University and their collaborators have detected the antimatter partner of the helium nucleus, antihelium-4. This newly observed particle is the heaviest antimatter particle ever detected.
Scientists at Rice’s Bonner Lab design…
Researchers at Rice University and Texas A&M have discovered a way to pattern active proteins into bio-friendly fibers. The “eureka” moment came about because somebody forgot to clean up the lab one night.
The new work from the Rice lab of biochem…
Despite economic anxiety and concern for the future of the country, most Houstonians perceive an improving quality of life locally and 90 percent believe that Houston is a better place to live than most other metropolitan areas, according to the 30t…
What race best describes your background? That one question, which appears on most paperwork for health care, could leave entire groups of people underserved and contribute to racial health disparities, according to new research from Rice University…