A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a tool to…
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Chemists use mass spectrometry tools to determine age of fingerprints
Fingerprints are telling us more and more about the people that left them behind. …
Count me out of counting seeds
One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Over and over and over. That’s…
Improving the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon-nanotube-based fibers
The Lyding Group recently developed a technique that can be used to build carbon-nanotube-based fibers by…
Biologists develop new defense in fight against crop infections
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has successfully tested a new strategy for…
A new world record for the conversion of solar energy to electricity using quantum dots
The development of next generation solar power technology that has potential to be used as a…
Ancient gut microbiomes shed light on human evolution
The microbiome of our ancestors might have been more important for human evolution than previously thought,…
More purple than blue: Religiously unaffiliated vary in political beliefs
For decades, research examining the intersection of religion and politics counted the religious “nones”—or the unaffiliated—as…
Physicists see nuclear wobbling in one isotope of gold
Nuclei can be round, like a soccer ball, or oblong, like a football. Others are slightly…
Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond
The Cuatro Cienegas Basin, located in Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico, was once a shallow sea that…