Scientists Develop New Way to Make Food Ingredient from Rice
Some of today’s popular baked goods might tomorrow contain a butter-like extract, derived from rice bran oil, as a partial replacement for margarine, butter or … Read more
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Diamonds are an oil’s best friend
A mixture of diamond nanoparticles and mineral oil easily outperforms other types of fluid created for heat-transfer applications, according to new research by Rice University. … Read more
New carbon nanotube fibers outperform copper in carrying power
On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, … Read more
FDA Explores Impact of Arsenic in Rice
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a major step towards learning whether levels of arsenic in rice and rice products pose a risk … Read more
Almost 20 percent of grain in China lost or wasted from field to fork
A comprehensive new review of food waste in the People’s Republic of China has concluded that about 19 of every 100 pounds of grain produced … Read more
Not-weak knots bolster carbon fiber’s allure
Large flakes of graphene oxide are the essential ingredient in a new recipe for robust carbon fiber created at Rice University. The fiber spun at … Read more
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…
