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Feds fund study of drug that may prevent radiation injury
— 28 Jan 2008 13:41 | HealthThe Department of Defence has commissioned a nine-month study from Rice University chemists and scientists in the Texas Medical Centre to determine whether a new drug based on carbon…
Deep-ocean researchers target tsunami zone near Japan
— 17 Jan 2008 19:14 | Geology and palaeontologyRice University Earth scientist Dale Sawyer and colleagues last month reported the discovery of a strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region of the Pacific Ocean notorious…
New property found in ancient mineral lodestone
— 18 Dec 2007 19:58 | PhysicsUsing the latest methods for nanofabrication, a team led by Rice University physicists has discovered a surprising new electronic property in one of the earliest-known and most-studied…
Changing environment organises genetic structure
— 14 Nov 2007 11:45 | PhysicsWhat is the fundamental creative force behind life on Earth' It's a question that has vexed mankind for millennia, and thanks to theory and almost a year's worth of number-crunching…
Video shows buckyballs form by shrink wrapping
— 28 Oct 2007 18:25 | PhysicsThe birth secret of buckyballs - hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA - has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An…
Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
— 14 Aug 2007 22:20 | BiologyIt's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket... unless you're a senita moth. Found in the parched Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico, the senita moth…
Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
— 5 Jul 2007 17:29 | BiologyNo one likes a cheater, even a single-celled one. New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep cheaters from undermining…