Scientists have woven the first 3-D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) from helical organic threads. The woven COFs display significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs. …read more Source:: Science
Day: January 21, 2016
iOS 9.3’s best feature (and how to get it on Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux)
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•iOS 9.3 is currently in public beta, and there’s one feature that I think is, without a doubt, the best feature to come to iOS for a while. I’m talking …read more Source:: Linux
Nano-weaving: Synthesis of threaded polymers begins
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•For the first time, scientists have been able to weave a material at molecular level. …read more Source:: Science
Dark ‘noodles’ may lurk in the Milky Way
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•Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our Galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. Astronomers say the …read more Source:: Science
Sexuality, not extra chromosomes, benefits animal, biologists find
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•Why do animals engage in sexual reproduction? Biologists sought answers with mud snails that breed both sexually and asexually. They found that asexual snails grow faster and reach reproductive age …read more Source:: Science
From sawdust to petrol
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•As world governments mull over global emission targets agreed at last December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), attention is turning to which new technologies can help them achieve …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Memory capacity of brain is 10 times more than previously thought
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•The brain’s memory capacity is in the petabyte range, as much as entire Web, new research indicates. The new work answers a longstanding question as to how the brain is …read more Source:: Science