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Baker Institute policy report looks at cybersecurity
A new article written by a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy calls on the intelligence community to jointly create a policy on cybersecurity and determine the degree to which the U.S. should protect intellectual property …
Metallic molecules to nanotubes: Spread out!
HOUSTON — (Feb. 23, 2011) — A lab at Rice University has stepped forward with an efficient method to disperse nanotubes in a way that preserves their unique properties — and adds more.
The new technique allows inorganic metal complexes with …
Children in public housing play outdoors more
Young children living in urban public housing spend more time playing outdoors than other urban children, according to researchers at Rice University, Columbia University and Princeton University.
Contrary to the expectations of the researchers, …
Study shows that defensive military alliances enhance peace
Countries that enter into defense pacts with other nations are less likely to be attacked, according to new research from Rice University. And those countries are not more likely to attack others.
The study, “Defense Pacts: A Prescription for Peac…
Rice University technology in human trials to spot cardiac disease, cancer, drug abuse
Heart disease is a silent killer, but new microchip technology from Rice University is expected to advance the art of diagnosis.
During National Heart Health Month, Rice Professor John McDevitt will discuss the potential of this technology to dete…
Early tests find nanoshell therapy effective against brain cancer
HOUSTON — (Feb. 1, 2011) — Rice University bioengineers and physician-scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital have successfully destroyed tumors of human brain cancer cells in the first animal tests of a minimally in…
