science
Hats on for Easter Island statues
How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their...
Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
Rakesh Mogul, a Cal Poly Pomona professor of biological chemistry, was the lead author of an article in the journal Astrobiology that offers the...
Atomically thin nanowires convert heat to electricity more efficiently
Waste heat can be converted to electricity more efficiently using one-dimensional nanoscale materials as thin as an atom – ushering a new way of...
Two ancient populations that diverged later ‘reconverged’ in the Americas
A new genetic study of ancient individuals in the Americas and their contemporary descendants finds that two populations that diverged from one another 18,000...
Secrets behind Pluto’s dunes revealed
Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released into its rarefied atmosphere.
Writing...
New technology for enzyme design
Scientists at the University of Würzburg have chemically modified the enzyme levansucrase using a new method. The enzyme can now produce sugar polymers that...
Multiple metals – and possible signs of water – found in...
An international team of researchers has identified 'fingerprints' of multiple metals in one of the least dense exoplanets ever found.
The team, from the University...
Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental...
An artificial nerve system gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense...
Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in a cockroach and identify...
Earliest ever evidence of lead pollution found in the Balkans –...
Sometime around 3600 BC, people in the Balkan peninsula reached a major milestone: their mining and metal smelting created enough pollution for us to...
Meet NOTCH2NL, the human-specific genes that may have given us our...
The evolution of larger brains in the last 3 million years played an important role in our ability as a species to think, problem-solve,...
