Taking a leaf from animals like dolphins and pilot whales that are known to have anti-fouling skins, researchers from A*STAR’s Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON) are using nanotechnology to create synthetic, chemical-free, anti-bacterial su…
Archaeologists have found a 4,000-year-old gourd fragment that bears an archaic image of the Staff God ? the principal deity in South America during thousands of years. “Like the cross, the Staff God is a clearly recognizable religious icon,” says Jonathan Haas, MacArthur curator of North American anthropology at The Field Museum. “This appears to be the oldest identifiable religious icon found in the Americas. It indicates that organized religion began in the Andes more than 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.”