Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a n...
For years, doctors have known that there is a link between childhood obesity and asthma, but have found it difficult to determine which condition tend...
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) -- among other telescopes -- have determined that our own Milky Way...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have produced the first complete genome sequencing of a strain of E. coli that is a common caus...
A new batteryless cardiac pacemaker based on an automatic wristwatch and powered by heart motion was presented at ESC Congress 2014 today by Adrian Zu...
When we learn, we associate a sensory experience either with other stimuli or with a certain type of behaviour. The neurons in the cerebral cortex tha...
In the quantum world, making the simple atom behave is one thing, but making the more complex molecule behave is another story. Now Northwestern Unive...
With their long, spiky legs and their propensity（倾向，习性） for eating anything, including each other, camel crickets are the stuff of nightmares. And now...
'Green' offices with plants make staff happier and more productive than 'lean' designs stripped of greenery, new research shows. In th...
Conventional wisdom has long held that corals -- whose calcium-carbonate skeletons form the foundation of coral reefs -- are passive organisms that re...