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Researchers Create Smallest Ever Lattice Structure

The smallest lattice in the world: its struts and braces are 0.2 µm in diameter; total size of the lattice is about 10 µm. Image credit: Jens Bauer / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Feb 2, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, has created a glassy carbon nanolattice with single struts shorter than 1 μm and diameters as small as 200 nm — the smallest lattice structure yet produced. The smallest lattice in the world: its struts and braces are 0.2 µm in diameter; total size of the lattice is about 10 µm. Image credit: Jens Bauer / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The world’s smallest lattice...

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COF-505 is the first 3D covalent organic framework to be made by weaving together helical organic threads. Image credit: Berkeley Lab.

Researchers Create Material with Fabric-Like Woven Nanostructure

Jan 22, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A 3D covalent organic framework (COF) constructed from helical organic threads, designed to be mutually weaving at regular intervals, has been synthesized...

Lonchura striata. Image credit: Thimindu Goonatillake / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Songbirds Sing Like Humans, Researchers Say

Jan 12, 2016 by News Staff

Vocal muscles of songbirds work like those of human speakers and singers, according to Emory University scientist Dr Samuel Sober and his colleagues from...

Neanderthal. Image credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.

Neanderthal DNA Gave Humans Allergies, Immunity Boost

Jan 8, 2016 by News Staff

Interbreeding of anatomically modern Homo sapiens with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) around 40,000 years ago may have left humans with gene variants...

Periodic table of the elements. Image credit: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry / Sci-News.com.

Periodic Table’s 7th Period is Finally Complete, IUPAC-IUPAP Officials Say

Jan 5, 2016 by News Staff

The 7th period of the periodic table now has four new elements: element 113 (temporarily named as Ununtrium, or Uut), element 115 (Ununpentium, or Uup),...

The CSU team has successfully produced a completely recyclable, biodegradable polymer. Image credit: Colorado State University.

Chemists Develop Fully Recyclable Polymer

Jan 2, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scientists at Colorado State University (CSU) has successfully produced a completely recyclable, biodegradable polymer. A graphical illustration...

Reconstruction of Ballynahatty Neolithic skull by Elizabeth Black. Her genes tell us she had black hair and brown eyes. Image credit: Barrie Hartwell.

Ancient Genomes from Ireland Sequenced for the First Time

Dec 30, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A large team of researchers reported this week that it had sequenced the whole genomes of four prehistoric Irish individuals: a Neolithic woman (3343 –...

Heatmap of gradient of expression of M1 and M3 spanning fetal development to late adulthood and in topographically distinct cortical regions: A1C - auditory cortex; AMY - amygdala; CBC - cerebellar cortex; DFC - dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; HIP - hippocampus; IPC - posterior inferior parietal cortex; ITC - inferior temporal cortex; M1C - primary motor cortex; MD - mediodorsal nucleus of thalamus; MFC - medial prefrontal cortex; OFC - orbital prefrontal cortex; S1C - primary somatosensory cortex; STC - superior temporal cortex; STR - striatum; V1C - primary visual cortex; VFC - ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Image credit: Michael R. Johnson et al, doi: 10.1038/nn.4205.

Researchers Identify Intelligence Gene Networks

Dec 22, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists led by Imperial College London researcher Michael Johnson has identified two ‘gene networks’ associated with human cognitive...

Artist’s reconstruction of a Red Deer Cave man. Image credit: Peter Schouten.

14,000-Year-Old Bone Found in Red Deer Cave Points to Archaic Human Species

Dec 18, 2015 by News Staff

An archaic species of the genus Homo from China, thought to be long extinct, likely survived until as recently as 14,000 years ago, a thigh bone found...

University of Copenhagen researcher Christoph Korte and his colleagues have shed light on the causes behind an ‘Ice Age’ that took place on our planet 174 million years ago. Image credit: Gerhard Boeggemann / CC BY-SA 2.5.

Scientists Shed Light on Causes behind Jurassic ‘Ice Age’

Dec 14, 2015 by News Staff

A group of researchers has found evidence of an abrupt, mid-latitude cooling of seawater during the Jurassic period, around 174 million years ago. University...

Upper respiratory system, with soft palate labeled near center. Image credit: BruceBlaus / CC BY 3.0.

Swedish Scientists Discover Unique Muscle Fibers in Human Soft Palate

Dec 8, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists at Umeå University in Sweden has discovered a special group of muscle fibers in the soft palate of the human mouth. Upper respiratory...

Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments which were quenched after the formation at 6,740 degrees Fahrenheit. Image credit: Jagdish Narayan / Anagh Bhaumik.

Q-Carbon: Scientists Discover New Allotrope of Carbon

Dec 1, 2015 by News Staff

A team of material scientists in the United States has discovered a novel allotrope of carbon, Q-carbon. Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments...

Still from the Baltoro glacier animation. Image credit: Frank Paul / Cryosphere / USGS / NASA / CC-BY 3.0.

Animated Satellite Images Reveal Glaciers in Motion

Nov 26, 2015 by News Staff

Animations that compress more than two decades of satellite images into one second reveal the complex behavior and flow of glaciers in the Karakoram mountain...

Torres del Paine, southern Andes, Chile. Image credit: Miguel Vieira.

New Research Suggests Andes Mountains Older Than Previously Thought

Nov 19, 2015 by News Staff

According to new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought. Torres...

U.S. scientists have created UV light-driven, single-molecule submersibles. Image credit: Loic Samuel / Rice University.

Researchers Create Light-Driven Submersible Nanomachines

Nov 17, 2015 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and Rice University has created UV light-driven, unimolecular ‘submarines’ that contain...

The different volumes of water stored in the global water cycle. Global volumes of young (less then 100 years old), modern (less then 50 years old) and total groundwater to 2 km depth compared with other fresh water volumes stored in the atmosphere, in surface waters (that is, wetlands, rivers and lakes), within plants or in soils. Image credit: Tom Gleeson et al.

Scientists Produce First Data-Driven Estimate of Earth’s Supply of Groundwater

Nov 17, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, the total groundwater volume in the upper 2 km of the Earth’s landmass is approximately...

Hunter-gatherers. Image credit: T.P.S. Dave.

Scientists Discover New Strand of European Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry

Nov 17, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of researchers has sequenced the genomes of Late Upper Paleolithic (13,300 years old) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old) males from...

Porous liquid. Image credit: University of Liverpool.

Scientists Invent Liquid with Permanent Porosity

Nov 12, 2015 by Natali Anderson

An interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists and material scientists from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Argentina, has invented a ‘porous...

Falkor Seamount. Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Newly-Discovered Seamount Named after Research Vessel Falkor

Oct 29, 2015 by News Staff

In November 2014, Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor discovered a seamount, or underwater mountain, 28,500 feet (8,700 m) on the ocean...

A group of Neanderthals in a cave. Image credit: Tyler B. Tretsven.

Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens Arrived in Southern Asia at least 80,000 Years Ago

Oct 15, 2015 by News Staff

A discovery of 47 human teeth from the Fuyan Cave in the Chinese province of Hunan indicates that anatomically modern Homo sapiens were present in southern...

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