Study: Chromium steel was first made in ancient Persia
Chromium steel - similar to what we know today as tool steel - was first made in Persia, nearly a millennium earlier than experts...
Research Suggests a Polymer Composite Could Serve as Lighter
A new study from researchers at North Carolina State University suggests that a material consisting of a polymer compound embedded with bismuth trioxide particles...
Study: Cremation in the Middle-East dates as far back as 7,000 B.C.
The gender of the human remains found inside a cremation pyre pit in Beisamoun, Israel remains unknown. What is known is that the individual...
Study: How the brain organizes information about odors
The premiere of the movie Scent of Mystery in 1960 marked a singular event in the annals of cinema: the first, and last, motion...
Scientists part of international effort to save critically endangered seabird
The global population of the critically endangered Chinese crested tern has more than doubled thanks to a historic, decade-long collaboration among Oregon State University...
Study: CCNY engineer Xi Chen and partners create new shape-changing crystals
Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial muscles for a broad array of applications. These are...
Research shows vitamin E needed for proper nervous system development
In research with key ramifications for women of childbearing age, findings by Oregon State University scientists show that embryos produced by vitamin E-deficient zebrafish...
Researchers uncover immune cells that may lower airway allergy and asthma risk
The world is full of house dust mites. Do some cleaning, and you'll probably stir some up. While everyone has immune cells capable of...
Study: Quantum algorithm proposed to solve Dyck language problems
Co-author, Senior Research Associate of the KFU Quantum Informatics Lab Kamil Khadiev, explains, "The Dyck problem is designed to check the program code and...
Study: Green light for European Space Agency mission to Venus
Researchers from the University of Oxford, Royal Holloway, University of London and Imperial College London will make key contributions to the mission, called EnVision,...