For decades, climate scientists have tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense about 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000...
The chemical used to make tofu and bath salts could also replace a highly toxic and expensive substance used to make solar cells, a University study p...
Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of round-eared sengi（象鼩）, or elephant-shrew, in the remote deserts of...
Without a steady supply of blood, neurons can't work. That's why one of the culprits behind Alzheimer's disease is believed to be the pers...
If no further action is taken and global temperature increases by 3.5°C, climate damages in the EU could amount to at least €190 billion, a n...
The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has declined. An international team of scientists, including one from Virginia Tech, reviewed publis...
Each fall millions of monarch butterflies use a sophisticated navigation system to transverse（横断） 2,000 miles from breeding sites across the eastern U...
Wrinkles, creases and folds are everywhere in nature, from the surface of human skin to the buckled（有扣的） crust of Earth. They can also be useful struc...
Women who are able to naturally have children later in life tend to live longer and the genetic variants that allow them to do so might also facilitat...
Vampire bats' strict blood diet has made them lose much of their ability to taste bitter flavours, a study has found.一项研究发现，吸血蝙蝠绝对的血液饮食使它们失去了品尝苦味的...