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News & Events
Traffic jams hold up electrons too
Rice University physicists on the hunt for the origins of high-temperature superconductivity have published new findings this week about a seemingly contradictory state in which a material simultaneously exhibits the conflicting characteristics of both a metallic conductor and an insulator.
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Rising plasma offers clues to sun storms.
Rice researcher part of team that used Doppler shifts to ID phenomenon; may help predict space weather.
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Hundreds visit campus to see twice in a lifetime event
On Tuesday, June 5, 2012, the planet Venus passed in front of the Sun and was visible as a small black circle marching across the solar disk.
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