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Natural Sciences

Wiess School of Natural Sciences

Probes shed new light on Alzheimer’s cause

Probes shed new light on Alzheimer’s cause

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Enrollment 2018

Forbes - Top STEM Colleges ranks Rice #5

Nobel Prizes Winner (3)

More than 60% of Natural Sciences majors are engaged in undergraduate research

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Gulf Coast corals face catastrophe

Gulf of Mexico coral reefs may only be saved by a dramatic reduction in greenhouse... Read more

IDEA Awards

Rice names fall IDEA winners

The evolution of life as depicted in a mural at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

Breathing? Thank volcanoes, tectonics and bacteria

An African forest elephant photographed by Rice University graduate student Therese Lamperty in Gabon. Lamperty studied how the presence of megafauna like elephants affect insect populations in preserved and hunted forests. The study showed that termite populations in particular suffered when elephants are absent. (Credit: Therese Lamperty)

In hunted rainforests, termites lose their dominance

Jabus Roberts

Rice physicist Jay Roberts dies at 76

Rice University researchers Ebrahim Nabizadeh (seated) and Pedram Hassanzadeh

Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change

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