To feed the world's growing population--expected to reach nine billion by the year 2050--we will have to find ways to produce more food on less fa...
Antimicrobial peptides are a distinctive class of potent, broad-spectrum antibiotics produced by the body's innate immune system -- the first line...
Although currently available diagnostic screening systems for breast cancer like X-ray computed tomography (CT) and mammography are effective at detec...
Ancient DNA extracted from the bones and teeth of giant lemurs that lived thousands of years ago in Madagascar may help explain why the giant lemurs w...
More than half of all American children will likely live with an unmarried mother at some point before they reach age 18, according to a report issued...
The team responsible for the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first definitive detection of o...
Gay people really do have an inbuilt radar that helps them seek out like-minded souls, scientists have shown.科学家表示，同性恋人群的确有一个类似内置雷达的感应体系能帮他们搜寻到同类。This...
Cities like Miami are all too familiar with hurricane-related power outages. But a Johns Hopkins University analysis finds climate change will give ot...
Stanford scientists have found evidence that sections of the fault responsible for the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake that devastated northern Japan ...
Dangerously high levels of air pollutants are being released in Mecca during the hajj, the annual holy pilgrimage in which millions of Muslims on foot...