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Plasmonic pioneers fire away in fight over light

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The devil’s in moon dust details

Brian O'Brien, who put experiments on the moon as a Rice space science professor in... Read more

Illustration shows how scientists measure signal loss by plasmonic gold nanoparticles by attaching molecules that create damping on the surface.

Chemicals induce dipoles to damp plasmons

Bacteria bide their time when antibiotics attack

Rice University researchers (from left) Ryan Lee, Alexey Revtovich and Natasha Kirienko showed how a dietary deficit of vitamin B12 harms the health of nematodes at a cellular level, leading to an increased risk of infection by two potentially deadly pathogens. Photo by Jeff Fitlow

Rice U. study highlights danger of vitamin B12 deficiency

Green fluorescent tags in a colony of human endothelial stem cells show high activity as they organize themselves into a pattern 40 hours after the BMP4 signaling pathway is activated. Rice University biosciences carried out experiments on contained colonies of cells to learn new details about how they're triggered to differentiate in embryos. (Credit: Warmflash Lab/Rice University)

Embryos’ signals take multiple paths

Rice University physicists Seth Davis and Matthew Foster

Ultracold atoms could provide 2D window to exotic 1D physics

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