It has been speculated that soil-dwelling parasitic worms use their sense of smell to find suitable hosts for infection. Research published on August ...
A Virginia Tech scientist has discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genet...
Laser physicists have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more sensitive and capable of detecting forces as small as the weigh...
Where does the name "Ebola" come from?The virus is named after the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That'...
Being overweight and obese puts people at greater risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers, according to research in the Lancet medical journa...
Recent research has suggested that women play better with others in small working groups, and that adding women to a group is a surefire（准不会有错的） way t...
Heart failure is a major public health burden in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with substantial variation in the presentation, causes...
Scientists who sequenced the genome of the Antarctic midge（蚊，蠓） suspect the genome's small size -- the smallest in insects described to date -- ca...
An international team of scientists has discovered that a large, commercially important fish from the Amazon Basin has become extinct in some local fi...
Whether or not humans are the only empathic beings is still under debate. In a new study, researchers directly compared the 'yawn contagion' e...