Anthropologists have found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago…
Month: November 2012
Archaeologists identify oldest spear points: Used in hunting half-million years ago
A collaborative study found that human ancestors were making stone-tipped weapons 500,000 years ago at…
Bioprinting has promising future: Scientists building structures for cells to grow on, in order to regenerate tissue
The pioneering concept of bioprinting is delivering promising results according to one of the early…
‘Space gems’: Rare meteorites created in violent celestial collision
A tiny fraction of meteorites on Earth contain strikingly beautiful, translucent, olive-green crystals embedded in…
Physicists skirt thermal vibration, transfer optical signal via mechanical oscillator
Using tiny radiation pressure forces, physicists converted an optical field, or signal, from one color…
Controlling heat flow through a nanostructure
Researchers found that heat moving in materials called superlattices behaves like waves; finding could enable…
Candidate for most distant galaxy discovered
By combining the power of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of…
Airborne particles smuggle pollutants to far reaches of globe
Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic,…
‘Cloning’ could make structurally pure nanotubes for nanoelectronics
Researchers have demonstrated a technique for growing virtually pure samples of single-wall carbon nanotubes with…
Carbon nanotubes may protect DNA from oxidation
NIST researchers have provided evidence that single-wall carbon nanotubes may help protect DNA molecules from…