Technology - general
A cooperative way to make ammonia
05 Oct 2016
Determining how bacterial nitrogenase works could someday lead to better industrial production of fertilizer
Three British scientists share Physics Nobel
04 Oct 2016
Discoveries by David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz helped illuminate how in some realms matter can exist in strange states, and in doing so helped scientists work with new forms of materials
FAST: China officially opens world’s largest radio telescope
27 Sep 2016
The $180-million telescope, which dwarfs others of its kind, will be used for observation of pulsars as well as exploration of interstellar molecules and “interstellar communication signals” - which could be sent by extra-terrestrial intelligence
Scientists identify gene behind our sixth sense
24 Sep 2016
Horses can tell you when they want a blanket – and when not
23 Sep 2016
The results strongly indicate that the horses had learnt to communicate their preferences using symbols, the researchers said
Single African migration accounts for all of world’s races
23 Sep 2016
Three separate studies have established for the first time that all non-Africans today trace their ancestry to a single population emerging from Africa between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago
Understanding math not tied to sight: study
21 Sep 2016
New theory overcomes a longstanding polymer problem
By By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 19 Sep 2016
For the past 100 years, polymer scientists have been stymied in their efforts to predict polymers’ elasticity, because the materials usually have structural flaws at the molecular level, which MIT researchers have now found a way of circumventing