
Agriculture in China Predates Domesticated Rice: Discovery of Ancient Diet Shatters Conventional Ideas of How Agriculture Emerged
Archaeologists have made a
discovery in southern
subtropical China which
could revolutionize thinking
about how ancient humans
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World's Smallest Liquid Droplets Ever Made in the Lab, Experiment Suggests
Physicists may have created
the smallest drops of liquid
ever made in the lab. That
possibility has been raised
by the results of a recent e ... > full story

Stacking 2-D Materials Produces Surprising Results
New experiments reveal
previously unseen effects,
could lead to new kinds of
electronics and optical
devices. ... > full story

New Method Proposed for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Ends of Universe
A new window into the nature
of the universe may be
possible with a device
proposed by scientists that
would detect elusive gravity
... > full story
- Agriculture in China Predates Domesticated Rice: Discovery of Ancient Diet Shatters Conventional Ideas of How Agriculture Emerged
- World's Smallest Liquid Droplets Ever Made in the Lab, Experiment Suggests
- Stacking 2-D Materials Produces Surprising Results
- New Method Proposed for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Ends of Universe
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Bach to the Blues, Our Emotions Match Music to Colors
May 16, 2013 Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research. For instance, Mozart's jaunty ... > full story -
Artificial Forest for Solar Water-Splitting: First Fully Integrated Artificial Photosynthesis Nanosystem
May 16, 2013 Researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While "artificial leaf" is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an "artificial ... > full story -
World's Biggest Ice Sheets Likely More Stable Than Previously Believed
May 16, 2013 A new study suggests that the previous connections scientists made between ancient shoreline height and ice volumes are erroneous and that perhaps our ice sheets were more stable in the past than we ... > full story -
World's Melting Glaciers Making Large Contribution to Sea Rise
May 16, 2013 While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets ... > full story -
Asian Lady Beetles Use Biological Weapons Against Their European Relatives
May 16, 2013 Once introduced for biological pest control, Asian lady beetle populations have been increasing uncontrollably. Scientists have now found the reason for the animal's success. Its body fluid contains ... > full story -
Beautiful 'Flowers' Self-Assemble in a Beaker
May 16, 2013 With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a laboratory -- and not at the scale of inches, but microns. These minuscule ... > full story -
DNA-Guided Assembly Yields Novel Ribbon-Like Nanostructures
May 16, 2013 DNA "linker" strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way unlike any other spontaneous arrangement of rod-shaped objects. The arrangement -- with the rods forming "rungs" on ladder-like ribbons -- ... > full story -
Invasive 'Crazy Ants' Are Displacing Fire Ants in Areas Throughout Southeastern U.S.
May 16, 2013 Invasive "crazy ants" are displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern United States, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. It's the latest in a history of ant ... > full story -
Fast and Painless Way to Better Mental Arithmetic? Yes, There Might Actually Be a Way
May 16, 2013 In the future, if you want to improve your ability to manipulate numbers in your head, you might just plug yourself in. So say researchers who report on studies of a harmless form of brain ... > full story -
Stem-Cell-Based Strategy Boosts Immune System in Mice
May 16, 2013 Raising hopes for cell-based therapies, researchers have created the first functioning human thymus tissue from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory. The researchers showed that, in mice, the ... > full story
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