Tagged: new research

Super-Wood Is Stronger Than Steel And Can Eliminate Use Of Steel

Researchers at the University of Maryland in the US have developed a new type of super-strong wood, which could replace the use of steel in manufacturing. Transforming natural wood into “a high-performance structural material” opens up multiple possibilities for applications in areas such as buildings,...

Human Genome May Have 20 Percent Fewer Genes – New Study

Humans may have only 19,000 coding genes (those genes that produce proteins), three thousand fewer than the sum of the tree reference annotations of the human genome and a much lower number than the 100,000 that predicted just twenty years ago A new study led...