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RiceAtlas: a spatial public database that answers key questions like where, when and how much rice is grown globally

RiceAtlas: a spatial public database that answers key questions like where, when and how much rice is grown globally

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

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New transgenic strain of rice actually improves yield under drought conditions

New transgenic strain of rice actually improves yield under drought conditions

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

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John Innes Centre scientists identify protein which boosts rice yield by fifty percent

John Innes Centre scientists identify protein which boosts rice yield by fifty percent

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

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Generating a Genome to Feed the World: UA-Led Team Decodes African Rice

Generating a Genome to Feed the World: UA-Led Team Decodes African Rice

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

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One step to solar-cell efficiency

One step to solar-cell efficiency

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

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Vapor nanobubbles rapidly detect malaria through the skin

Vapor nanobubbles rapidly detect malaria through the skin

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

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Tanks, graphene! Rice advances compressed gas storage

Tanks, graphene! Rice advances compressed gas storage

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

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How rice twice became a crop and twice became a weed — and what it means for the future

How rice twice became a crop and twice became a weed — and what it means for the future

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

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Not-weak knots bolster carbon fiber

Not-weak knots bolster carbon fiber

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

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Chloroform cleanup: just the beginning for palladium-gold catalysts

Chloroform cleanup: just the beginning for palladium-gold catalysts

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

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Rice-Cell Cocktail Kills Cancer Cells, Leaves Normal Cells Alone

Rice-Cell Cocktail Kills Cancer Cells, Leaves Normal Cells Alone

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

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New nanotech fiber: Robust handling, shocking performance

New nanotech fiber: Robust handling, shocking performance

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

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Rice uses light to remotely trigger biochemical reactions

Rice uses light to remotely trigger biochemical reactions

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

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Graphene/Nanotube Hybrid is a Promising Material for Energy Storage, Electronics

Graphene/Nanotube Hybrid is a Promising Material for Energy Storage, Electronics

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

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