Rice’s computer science department has unleashed a number of changes this year, introducing COMP 222 and 312 this semester ...

At the induction ceremony for the inaugural cohort of linguistic emissaries April 10, faculty, scholars and guests gathered to celebrate the launch of two new institutions for linguistics at Rice ...

A research team has discovered a new tissue in plants that plays an essential role in seed formation by regulating the flow of nutrients into the seed. The team used their findings to increase the ...

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...

How ancient DNA analysis revealed that unusually bound medieval books are covered in sealskin, and top quarks and their ...

This book won the INDIEFAB 2015 Bronze Award for Science (Adult nonfiction). Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) including plants and the foods made from them, are a hot topic of debate today, but ...