Posts Tagged ‘Rice University’
Earth & Environment - Mar 23, 2010 12:32 - 0 Comments
Predicting Earth’s tectonic dance
RICE (US)—A research team has put the finishing touches on a 20-year labor of love: a precise description of the relative movements of the interlocking tectonic plates that account for about 97 percent of Earth’s surface. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 19, 2010 11:00 - 8 Comments
Invisible tags may give bar codes the boot
RICE (US)—Long checkout lines will be history if a newly developed technology delivers. The printable transmitter—invisibly embedded in packaging—would allow a customer to walk a cart full of groceries or other goods past a scanner on the way to the car. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 19, 2010 10:01 - 2 Comments
Fungus in golf-course grass wreaks havoc
RICE U. / INDIANA U. (US)—A fungus living inside a popular turf grass called tall fescue, used widely for golf courses and home lawns, is having far-reaching effects on plant, animal, and insect communities. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 17, 2010 11:06 - 1 Comment
3-D culture makes cells feel at home
RICE (US)—Researchers have developed a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures. The technological leap from the flat petri dish could save millions of dollars in drug-testing costs. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 22, 2010 11:16 - 0 Comments
Upside-down answer for deep Earth mystery
RICE (US)—When Earth was young, it exhaled the atmosphere. Now, a team of scientists is offering a new answer to a longstanding mystery: What caused Earth to hold its last breath? (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 18, 2010 12:47 - 8 Comments
Turning Facebook fans into loyal customers
RICE (US)—Companies that use Facebook and its fan page module to market themselves can increase sales, word-of-mouth marketing, and customer loyalty significantly among a subset of their customers, new research shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 15, 2010 12:50 - 0 Comments
Gold nanowire bond stays strong naturally
RICE (US)—Welding uses heat to join pieces of metal in everything from circuits to skyscrapers. But researchers have found a way to beat the heat on the nanoscale. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 5, 2010 11:28 - 1 Comment
Physicists blast cancer with nanobubbles
RICE (US)—Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 1, 2010 15:07 - 5 Comments
Economic ‘perfect storm’ brewing?
RICE (US)—Policymakers must address long-term energy policy challenges in the West and meet economic development challenges in the Middle East to ward off repeated global economic crises. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 27, 2010 14:53 - 0 Comments
From gecko feet, lesson in nanotube transfer
RICE (US)—Geckos seem to defy gravity by sticking to a surface no matter how smooth it appears to be—all thanks to the electrical attraction between millions of microscopic hairs on the gecko’s feet and the surface. The same concept is allowing researchers to transfer forests of strongly aligned, single-walled carbon nanotubes from one surface to another in a matter of minutes. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 21, 2010 11:33 - 0 Comments
Insiders make best CEOs
RICE—While hiring a CEO from outside the company may initially bring fresh ideas, a new study shows that promoting someone from within is a better strategy in the long run. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 11, 2010 14:09 - 1 Comment
Nanodragsters hit the street
RICE—Chemists are building better and better nanomachines, the latest of which is a nanodragster—named for its characteristic hot-rod shape—with small wheels on a short axle in the front and large wheels on a long axle in the back. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 10, 2009 18:15 - 1 Comment
Surprising weakness found in H1N1
RICE (US)—The H1N1 influenza virus has been keeping a secret that may be the key to defeating it and other flu viruses as well. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 21, 2009 16:27 - 0 Comments
Fair-minded Americans splurge on impulse
RICE (US)—Americans who believe in equality tend to purchase impulsively—particularly when indulging—a new study suggests. The findings have implications for how to market products in countries where shoppers are more likely to buy on impulse. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 2, 2009 12:34 - 0 Comments
Survey: U.S. leadership less cynical today
RICE (US)—Contemporary leaders are less trusting, but also less cynical, than those in top positions nearly four decades ago, according to a new comprehensive survey of White House Fellows—a group that includes more than 600 prominent leaders in nearly every sector of American society. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 30, 2009 16:14 - 2 Comments
Largest quakes weaken fault zones worldwide
RICE (US)—The massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean appears to have weakened at least a portion of California’s famed San Andreas Fault, according to a new report by U.S. seismologists. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 30, 2009 12:41 - 1 Comment
‘Beautiful’ stellar jet recreated in lab
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful—and inexplicable—objects in the universe. Now, astrophysicists have replicated the physics of a stellar jet in a laboratory. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 28, 2009 11:17 - 0 Comments
Portable device uses lasers to detect pollutant
PRINCETON/RICE (US)—A newly developed portable device could make it much easier to detect nitric oxide, a serious pollutant that plays a role in the body, affecting heart rate, blood flow, nerve signals, and immune function. (more…)
