Rice is an important food source for a majority of the world population. Worldwide, on average around 60 kilograms of rice is consumed per year per person. Researchers from all over the worl... Read more
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have developed strains of rice that are resistant to drought in real-world situations. Published in Plant Biotechnology... Read more
In collaboration with researchers at Nanjing Agricultural University, Dr Tony Miller from the John Innes Centre has developed rice crops with an improved ability to manage their own pH level... Read more
An international team of researchers led by the University of Arizona has sequenced the complete genome of African rice. The genetic information will enhance scientists’ and agricultur... Read more
Rice University scientists have created a one-step process for producing highly efficient materials that let the maximum amount of sunlight reach a solar cell. The Rice lab of chemist Andrew... Read more
The “vapor nanobubble” technology requires no dyes or diagnostic chemicals, and there is no need to draw blood. Rice University researchers have developed a noninvasive technology that accur... Read more
Rice University mix of graphene nanoribbons, polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical... Read more
Weeds derived from a crop plant pose special challenges for modern farming The evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once asked whether the living world would be different “if the tape we... Read more
New material created at Rice University with graphene oxide flakes Large flakes of graphene oxide are the essential ingredient in a new recipe for robust carbon fiber created at Rice Univers... Read more
Federally funded research pays off with new process for environmental remediation Researchers from Rice University, DuPont Central Research and Development and Stanford University have annou... Read more
Wusirika thinks the rice callus culture may be attacking cancer with the same sort of plant chemicals that make vegetables so healthy to eat. Juice from rice cells knocked out two kinds of h... Read more
Nanotube fibers have unmatched combination of strength, conductivity, flexibility Rice University’s latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it stil... Read more
Deep-sea microbes that thrive in high temperatures are key to light-activated catalysis Since Edison’s first bulb, heat has been a mostly undesirable byproduct of light. Now researchers at R... Read more
A seamless graphene/nanotube hybrid created at Rice University may be the best electrode interface material possible for many energy storage and electronics applications. Led by Rice chemist... Read more