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As a result of a new grant awarded by the National Science Foundation, a Rice University-headed group of climate scientists and engineers is gaining better insights into how climate change would affect the frequency and intensity of flooding on the Mississippi River.

Our spatial sense doesn’t extend beyond the familiar three dimensions, but that doesn’t stop scientists from playing with whatever lies beyond. Rice University physicists are pushing spatial boundaries in new experiments. They’ve learned to control e

Rice Universitys Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden Blossoms With Sustainability and Solar Upgrades Rice Universitys Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden Blossoms With Sustainability and Solar Upgrades Thanks to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club, the holistic garden at Rice University flips the switch on a new off-grid solar solution, greenhouse, rainwater collection system and more Published 05-04-21 Submitted by Green Mountain Energy HOUSTON, May 4, 2021 /CSRwire/ - Today, Rice Uni...

Share Charles Sidney Burrus — “Sid” to almost everyone — whose boyhood fascination with electricity set him on a path to become a pioneer in digital signal processing during a long and influential career at Rice University, died April 3. Burrus ’57, the Maxfield and Oshman Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and former dean of engineering, was 86 years old. “Rice engineering has lost one of the great ones,” said Bart Sinclair ’73 ’74 ’79, who reti...

Nanotechnology Now Our NanoNews Digest Sponsors Home > Press > Quantum quirk yields giant magnetic effect, where none should exist: Study opens window into the landscape of extreme topological matter Rice University theoretical physicists (from left) Hsin-Hua Lai, Qimiao Si and Sarah Grefe worked with experimental collaborators at Vienna University of Technology to understand topological features of a nonmagnetic Weyl-Kondo semimetal allowed it to produce a giant Hall effect in the absence of a...

 E-Mail HOUSTON - (Feb. 22, 2021) - Researchers at Rice University have received funding for up to $1 million to develop a real-time sensor system able to detect minute amounts of the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 infection. The researchers at Rices Brown School of Engineering and Wiess School of Natural Sciences -- chemical and biomolecular engineer Rafael Verduzco, civil and environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and structural virologist Yizhi Jane Tao -- will team with William Lawrence...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A river-fed sedimentary plain in Iceland bears resemblance to what might have fed Mars Gale Crater more than 3 billion years ago. Researchers at Rice University studied rover data on... view more  Credit: Photo by Michael Thorpe HOUSTON - (Jan. 20, 2021) - Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3 billion years ago. The ancient Martian crater is the focus of a study by Rice Univ...