Neanderthals likely used the sticky substance to build and repair tools, but it also may have had another important use. With its antibiotic properties, birch tar could also treat wounds. The findings ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

Researchers have found that birch tar produced using methods available to Neanderthals carries measurable antibacterial properties, raising the possibility that this sticky substance served a dual ...

This experiment rebuilds the simple measuring tools that made one of history’s most precise construction feats possible. What ...

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ADELPHI, Md. – Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory ...

At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so you decide to recreate it. Using ...

Imagine you’re at a tea party with a bonobo. What kind of tea are you serving? Are there cakes? What is the bonobo wearing?

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

With countless material candidates and limited lab time, a digital materials ecosystem combines AI and multiple tools into ...

At Pittcon 2026 in San Antonio, Dr. Lenka Halámková of Texas Tech walked through a multimodal workflow that combines Raman ...

Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.