The work offers scientists a way to adjust the properties of existing dyes deliberately, making them bolder, brighter, and more cell-permeable

Spent grain amounts to as much as 85 percent of a brewery's waste

Research team focused on copper-exchanged zeolites, a particular class of catalysts used to promote the conversion of NO_x into environmentally benign nitrogen gas

Invention could dramatically reduce the number of chemicals in cleaning products and their impact on the environment

Rice University scientists improve method to pull greenhouse gas from natural gas streams

Their findings reverse what has been accepted thinking in crystallography for more than 100 years

"Today, ultrasound is mostly anatomical," says lead author of the study. "We want to bring it down to the molecular and cellular level."

New protein process in E. coli could lead to more efficient options for 'tiniest of factories'

Researchers at Rice University, in Europe, and in Singapore discover band gaps in spider silk

Group has developed a biological method of producing quantum dots which is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than current methods