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Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods
This species was not a savanna species like Darwin proposed,” said University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose, a co-author of two of 11…
Graphite mimics iron's magnetism
The results are promising for new applications in nanotechnology, such as sensors and detectors. In particular graphite could be a promising candidate for a…
Novel Chemistry for Ethylene and Tin
Ethylene has long been known to react with transition metals such as iron or copper, but was not thought to react reversibly with metals such as tin or…
Oxygen in Place of Chlorine
Propylene oxide is an important bulk chemical that is used primarily in the production of polyurethane plastics. Currently, propylene oxide is usually made…
A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor
Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one…
Diamonds May Be the Ultimate MRI Probe
The team’s work has the long-term goal of developing quantum computers, but it has borne fruit that may have more immediate application in medical science….