Abstract: Tuning power consumption of a tunable laser (TL) increasingly becomes an issue as the application range of wavelength division multiplexing grows in optical communications. On-chip Joule ...

A team of researchers including Rice University's James Tour and Shichen Xu has developed an ultrafast, one-step method to ...

A new one‑step, water‑, acid‑, and alkali‑free method for extracting high‑purity lithium from spodumene ore has the potential ...

Why multichannel fiber connections are needed to meet AI workloads. Artificial intelligence (AI) gobbles up all available ...

The nip in the air and the incessant drone of Christmas music means it’s that time of year when we take Melis sa’s mom to tea. It may sound like I’m down on tea. Not so. Boring black tea is still ...

We love close-up pictures of intricate work, and [w] hits the spot with a tiny joule thief in a fuse case (social media post, embedded below) powered by an old coin cell from a watch. It’s so tiny!

Intent is to Develop a Fully Compatible Feedstock-to-Oxide Refining Pathway to Unlock U.S. REE and Critical Metal Supply Chain Independence HOUSTON and PERTH, Australia, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Why hasn’t HR evolved at the same pace as other lines of business? Of course, there are some excellent solutions out there, SAP and Workday, among them, but these are expensive options; do you really ...

James Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice.

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen claimed his fourth victory of the F1 2025 season in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit. Verstappen dominated from pole position to clinch a second ...

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet orbiting a faint star 40 light-years from home. Scientists are homing in ...