Rice discovery could add green technology to your batteries
Rice discovery could add green technology to your batteries
Researchers say a plant material can replace metallic component
By Zain Shauk
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In one more step of a global effort to develop greener battery technology, researchers at Rice University say they have found a way to replace a costly metallic component in lithium-ion batteries with material from a common plant.
Houston
Strand's grande dame will get a $1.9M restoration
By Allan Turner
With busted windows and rotted walls, the Strand's Hendley Building has seen hard times. Architect Joe Rozier, of Mitchell Historic Properties, faces challenges in rehabilitating the Hendley's eastern units.
Expanded DNA database solving more crimes
By Cindy Horswell
Technology and an expanding database are making DNA - the molecular building block that's as unique as a fingerprint - exponentially more successful in solving crimes in Texas.
Kubiak hampering Texans with predictability
By Randy Harvey
It is known in the NFL as "Black Monday,'' the day after the regular season when head coaches whose jobs are in jeopardy most likely will learn their fates. They look at newspaper sports pages that day like older readers do the obituaries: to see if they're in them.
A brief graze through Nosh Bistro
By Alison Cook
Along with the city's recent uptick in regional Indian restaurants comes another welcome trend: South Asian restaurants with a contemporary spin, adding to an inventory that already includes such venues as Pondicheri and the Queen Vic Pub.
Kingwood family's adoption halted after Russian ban
When Aimée Anderson met the 9-year-old girl at a Russian orphanage, the child's curls brought one of the Kingwood mother's three young sons to mind. The little girl never left Anderson's side during a five-day church mission trip to Russia last summer.
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Sweet memories of waterfowl wonderlands
Angry black waves driven by a wind that would have had a name if this had been September exploded against the concrete dock of the boat ramp on the shore of Cayo del Grullo, the resulting spray immediately snatched by the gale and flung away into the December darkness.
Workplace resolutions to live by
When most people focus on New Year's resolutions, they're thinking about eating better and exercising more. But there is nothing to stop you from vowing to brush up on your career-related skills, get ready for the next job opportunity and expand your horizons.
Daughter's pitch stands out from Mattress Mack's
It's one of those weird questions I get a lot. … Why is Mattress Mack's daughter, Laura McIngvale-Brown, always sitting in those Gallery Furniture commercials?
Fiscal courage? Nay, look not to this Congress
For me, the movie ended with a troubling juxtaposition. As the final credits of "Lincoln" rolled across the screen Monday afternoon, I turned on my phone to check on the fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington, in which Senate Republicans were nearing an 11th-hour deal with the White House.
Houston history
By Allan Turner
Since Edit Moore's 1975 death, her house, built of hand-shaped, saddle-notched pine logs, has been the headquarters of the Houston Audubon Society. Time and climate, though, have not been kind.
The environment
By Harvey Rice
GALVESTON - Rising sea levels are likely to cover the coastal highway on the unprotected west end of Galveston sooner than previously predicted. A 2007 study underwritten by the city of Galveston that anticipated rising sea levels would cover the coastal highway on the west of the island within 60 years appears to have been overly optimistic.