Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»
So, you've got your own business and you wonder whether promoting it on social media is worth its while, or just a waste of time. Utpal M. Dholakia, associate professor of marketing at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of ...READ»
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced that it has bestowed 76 grants of $100,000 each to scientists who have come up with unconventional ways to destroy infectious diseases in the developing world. Below are ...READ»
The police arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University, and President Obama’s comments on the incident, has re-ignited a national debate about race, bias, and stereotyping in the US. Regardless of the specifics of the ...READ»
Last week, I started a blog series about organizations and groups who are making a difference for underrepresented men and women in technology. Our research shows that only 6.8% of technical employees in Silicon Valley are ...READ»
A briefing room at the United Nations yesterday morning made a very official setting for an announcement about the international, high-tech, and almost free future of higher education. Shai Reshef, featured in our Most Creative ...READ»
The smell of chalk may bring back fond (or not-so-fond) memories of doing math problems in front of the class, but many children in developing nations only have access to small, erasable black slate tablets for all of their ...READ»
A new type of extremophile life has been discovered in Chile that may help us recognize what life on Mars may look like--and that will undoubtedly help in the search for discovering that life, should it exist. Scientists pondering ...READ»
"An atomically-thick layer of bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal array, that can be made by peeling a layer off a graphite block with sticky-tape" doesn't sound like a particularly wondrous material. But that's an approximate ...READ»
The phrase "create, rip, mix and burn," popularized by Apple, summarizes how fans are personalizing and sharing their music experience. They are empowered with the ability to "create new music," "rip or copy music," "mix" this music ...READ»
Everywhere in China, there's evidence of economic and social transformation. Change is in the air. It's even in the subways.
Since 1998, Steven Lewis, director of the Transnational China Project at Rice University ...READ»
Your youngest recruits may be fresh out of college, but they're ready to make grown-up contributions to your company. Here's how smart companies are getting the most out of their youngest employees.READ»
