In the most densely forested and most densely populated quadrant（象限） of the United States, forests reflect two centuries of human needs, values and pr...
The cause of neuronal death in Parkinson's disease is still unknown, but a new study proposes that neurons may be mistaken for foreign invaders an...
Fruit flies are pretty predictable when it comes to scheduling their days, with peaks of activity at dawn and dusk and rest times in between. Now, res...
In a time of global climate change and rapidly disappearing habitat critical to the survival of countless endangered species, there is a heightened se...
Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years -- a trend that could continue as climate...
An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new inform...
From far away, the top of a leaf looks like one seamless surface; however, up close, that smooth exterior is actually made up of a patchwork（拼缀物） of c...
The proportion of land used to cultivate shade grown coffee, relative to the total land area of coffee cultivation, has fallen by nearly 20 percent gl...
The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous（软骨的） and bony fishes have more to tell us ab...
A research team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has discovered an protein family that plays a central role in the fight against the bacte...