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 ...

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

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

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Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample. But most instruments still analyze their molecules one or just a few at a ...

Neanderthals may have used birch tar as more than just glue; it could have helped them ward off infection and even insect bites. People from several modern Indigenous cultures, in ...

Dartmouth researchers have developed a cell phone-based tool that monitors tissue health by using a naturally occurring ...

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