Scientists create lab-grown amber-like resin to study fossil preservation. Story by Justin Jackson • 1mo. T he Field Museum in Chicago and the Foundation for Scientific Advancement reported that ...

To create the synthetic wood, scientists took a solution of polymer resin and added a pinch of chitosan, a sugar polymer derived from the shells of shrimp and crabs.

For the first time, an international research team successfully extracted genetic material from insects that were embedded in six- and two-year-old resin samples. Newsletters Amazon Prime Day ...