Frank J. Low, '59, a pioneer of infrared astronomy, taught physics at Rice and remained affiliated with the university from 1966 to 1979.

Led by Earth science professors André Droxler and Gerald Dickens, a group of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and professors about 25 strong embarked upon a two-week journey through Morocco, one of the planet's unique geological sites.

Doug Natelson, associate professor of physics and astronomy and in electrical and computer engineering, authored this article on the quantum limits of electronics.

A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation

Rice University researchers announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Rice University is collaborating on a new way to detect oil deposits in wells once thought to be tapped out. Groups led by Rice professors James Tour, Michael Wong and Mason Tomson and Rice researcher Amy Kan are collaborating on a system by which hydrophilic carbon clusters can be sent into a well by the billions and come back to the surface full of valuable information.