Researchers team has developed inks made of graphene-like materials for inkjet printing. New black phosphorous inks are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques for optoelectronics and photonics. Credit: University of Cambridge An international research team has developed inks made of graphene-like...
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Will virtual reality rob future students of the awe and wonder naturalists experience when exploring nature? Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a forest before dawn to...
Aberration-corrected HAADF/STEM images of as-synthesized Rh-ZSM-5. Single rhodium cations are circled in white with proposed ball-stick model of the structure. Credit: Lawrence F. Allard, co-author and researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory The direct oxidation of methane -- found in natural...
Reconstruction of Halszkaraptor escuilliei. This small dinosaur was a close relative of Velociraptor, but in both body shape and inferred lifestyle it much closely recalls some waterbirds like modern swans. Credit: Lukas Panzarin; and Andrea Cau for scientific supervision An exceptionally...
The photograph shows the Shingle Pass section in east central Nevada, where late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician (460 to 495 million years ago) limestone rocks are exposed. These strata were sampled for carbon and sulfur isotopic analysis in order...
Sealings from the archive of Doliche. Credit: Asia Minor Research Centre Classical scholars from the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" of the University of Münster discovered a large number of sealings in south-east Turkey. "This unique group of artefacts comprising...
Remnant of a street in the urban centre of Kalibangan. The Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel can be seen in the distance. Credit: S. Gupta (Imperial College London) The Indus or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age society that developed mainly in the northwestern...
Generosity makes people happier, even if they are only a little generous, suggests new research. Credit: © MG / Fotolia Generosity makes people happier, even if they are only a little generous. People who act solely out of self-interest are less...
Artist's conceptions of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. It is surrounded by neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is from the period called...
The genomes of the owl limpet (pictured), a freshwater leech and an ocean-dwelling worm are among the first sequenced genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom known as lophotrochozoans, which includes as many as one-quarter of...
Hard tick grasping a dinosaur feather preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber. Modified from the open access article published in Nature Communications: 'Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages.' Credit: Paper authors. Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved...