Precise changes in brain circuitry occur as young zebra finches go from listening to their fathers' courtship songs to knowing the songs themselve...
So-called citizen science has become a significant force in several scholarly disciplines. The phenomenon can be found in both the natural and the soc...
Lawrence Livermore scientists, working with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and university colleagues, have found that half of the glo...
The first study to evaluate the biodiversity of arthropods in U.S. homes finds that humans share their houses with any of more than 500 different kind...
Countries drastically underreport the number of fish caught worldwide, according to a new study, and the numbers obscure a significant decline in the ...
A team of astronomers led by Tomoharu Oka, a professor at Keio University in Japan, has found an enigmatic gas cloud, called CO-0.40-0.22, only 200 li...
Many of us have reached in our pockets, feeling a vibration, wrongly believing our mobile phones have just rung.许多人都曾有过这样的错觉：觉得手机在振动，于是去口袋拿手机，结果手机根本没响...
New research to be published January 13 in the journal Scientific Reports shows that some bacterial cultures adopt an all-for-one/one-for-all strategy...
Brazilian torrent frogs may use sophisticated audio and visual signals to communicate, including inflating vocal sacs, squealing, and arm waving, acco...
The world's largest canyon may lie under the Antarctic ice sheet, according to analysis of satellite data by a team of scientists, led by Durham U...