New funding from the Texas Space Commission and U.S. Space Force will expand Rice University's space research programs.

HOUSTON – (July 25, 2022) – Spiders are amazing. They’re useful even when they’re dead. Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to repurpose deceased spiders as mechanical grippers that ...

From left to right, mechanical engineering graduate student Emma Brown, Dan Preston, Vanessa Sanchez, and mechanical engineering graduate student Amanda Johnson (Credit: Jorge Vidal, Rice University).

Rice University engineers have produced containers that have the potential to keep volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from accumulating on the stored nanomaterials’ surfaces. The study was published in ...