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The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute a $1 million Challenge Grant to refine cell-tracking nanotube technology that could make magnetic resonance imaging up to 40 times more sensitive than existing MRIs and help guide adult stem cells within the human body to repair damaged ...

Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition of the journal Social Problems.

But thanks to computations by Rice University professor Michael Deem and his colleagues, it appears there are -- or could be -- more types of zeolites than once thought.

Rice evolutionary biologists argue for new meaning of 'organismality' Rice University evolutionary biologists David Queller and Joan Strassmann argue in a new paper that high cooperation and low conflict between components, from the genetic level on up, give a living thing its "organismality," whether that thing is an animal, a plant, a bacteria a ...

Kennedy Award was established this year to recognize substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and significant community service or mentoring contributions The Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society will jointly present the inaugural Ken Kennedy Award to Francine Berman, vice president for ...

When he graduated from Rice, Harry Reasoner thought heading to law school sounded better than getting a job.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Dentistry ; Medical Devices / Diagnostics ; IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 07 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers in Rice University's new BioScience Research Collaborative a $2 million Grand Opportunity grant to develop a fast, inexpensive test for ...

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1832, USA E-mail: Russell.L.Carden@rice.edu Abstract.

Reporting from Atlanta - This week's mayoral elections in Atlanta and Houston were close enough to trigger runoffs between the top two candidates in each city, leaving voters with final choices in December that could turn on race but also on nuts-and-bolts issues of governing in a recession.

JOHN O'Quinn, a bare-knuckles American lawyer whose outsized personality matched the jury awards he won for his clients, has died in a car crash in Houston, Texas.

Proposition 4, a heavily pushed constitutional amendment to help create more top-tier research universities, has won approval from Texas voters.

Texas voters on Tuesday approved 11 state constitutional amendments, including one intended to help lift more of the state's public universities into the ranks of major national research institutions.

"We have found a specific evolutionary mechanism to account for a portion of the intricate biological complexity of our species," said Ariel Fernandez, professor of bioengineering at Rice University.

Zeolites are a fine lattice, a molecular sieve that can let molecules of a certain size pass while blocking others.

Houston police on Monday arrested a woman in the Sept. 13 shooting death of a man who had been linked to the brutal slaying of a Rice University student more than 20 years ago.

Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power distribution and nanoelectronics.

Tourists' shadows are reflected on the "inner wall" at the Berlin Wall Memorial.

An estimated 1 million new people will be moving to Houston during the next 20 years.

John O'Quinn, a plaintiff's lawyer whose outsized personality matched the jury awards he won for his clients, died Thursday when the sport utility vehicle he was driving jumped a median, crossed several lanes of oncoming traffic and smashed into a tree along a parkway in Houston.

An 11 News/KUHF Houston Public Radio poll finds broad support for Proposition Four in the Houston area.