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Be yourself at work — it’s healthier and more productive

Be yourself at work — it’s healthier and more productive

Inspiration
Being yourself at the workplace is healthier and brings work efficiency, suggests a new study. It allows people to improve connections, form relationships with...
Men spend more for Valentine's Day

Men spend more for Valentine’s Day

Lifestyle
Valentine's Day is like an annual festival to celebrate love and admiration. Every year on 14 February people celebrate this day by sending messages...
In this structural model for a beta-lactamase protein, catalytic residues are shown as spheres with those that are consistently highly frustrated along the entire beta-lactamase family shown in red and those for which the frustrated state is not conserved in yellow. The new work by scientists at Rice University, the University of Buenos Aires and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory suggests these enzymes, which must remain exposed to react with their targets, get a measure of protection from the somewhat-frustrated amino acids around them. The green lines represent minimal frustration, the red lines represent high frustration. The linear charts at top and bottom show the positions of the relevant amino acids on the protein chain and a measure of the conservation of energy over the entire beta-lactamases protein family. Illustration by Maria Feiberger

Working proteins make good use of frustration

Science
Proteins- active sites of enzymes- accelerates and guide biochemical reactions make life possible. To do this, their instructions have to conflict somewhat with the...
A new model by Rice University researchers details a direct connection between gene expression and metabolism and how cancer cells take advantage of it to adapt to hostile environments, a process known as metabolic plasticity. Illustration by Dongya Jia

Cancer cells’ plasticity makes them harder to stop

Health
Metabolic plasticity enables cancer cells to switch their metabolism phenotypes between glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) during tumorigenesis and metastasis. However, it is still...
A new study by Rice University scientists Cin-Ty Lee (left), Gelu Costin (second from left), Ming Tang (second from right) and Hehe Jiang (right), and by China University of Geosciences’ collaborator Kang Chen (center) determined that Earth’s continental crust formed deep beneath continental arcs like the Andes Mountains. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Earth’s continental nurseries discovered beneath mountains

Science
Geoscientists at the Rice University have found an answer of one of Earth science’s fundamental questions: Where do continents form? Scientists compared niobium, one of Earth’s...
Rice University petrologists have found Earth most likely received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen and other life-essential volatile elements from the planetary collision that created the moon more than 4.4 billion years ago. (Image courtesy of Rice University)

Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth

Space
A new study by the Rice University scientists suggests that most of the Earth's essential elements of life such as carbon, nitrogen and other life-essential...
Rice University researchers studying the effect of light on pinwheels (left) and single C-shaped (right) gold nanoparticles have found an unknown effect on single particles. Stimulating the particles just right produced a near-perfect modulation of the light they scatter via their plasmonic response. The discovery may become useful in the development of chips for next-generation optical components for computers and antennas. Courtesy of the Link Research Group

Light triggers gold in unexpected way

Science
Rice scientists surprisingly made a discovery that suggests that exciting the microscopic particles just right produced a near-perfect modulation of the light they scatter. This...
An illustration depicting the minimum (interglacial, black) and maximum (glacial, grey) glaciation of the northern hemisphere during the ice age that began about 3.2 million years ago. (Image courtesy of Hannes Grobe/AWI/Wikimedia Commons)

True polar wander may be the reason of ice age

Science
Earth's most recent ice age may have been caused by changes somewhere inside the planet. In light of proof from the Pacific Ocean, including...
Haotian Wang, who will join the Rice faculty later this year, is the lead author of a study to transform carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and other industrial fuels. Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

New catalyst turns pollutant into fuel

Environment
Haotian Wang, Assistant professor at Rice University has an efficient plan to convert the greenhouse gas into useful products in a greenway. Along with his...
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