Practising sport for more than an hour day reduces the risk of contracting breast cancer, and this applies to women of any age and any weight, and als...
In a world perfumed by freshly popped popcorn and exhaust fumes, where sea breezes can mingle with the scents of sweet flowers or wet paint, new resea...
Inspired by natural materials such as bone -- a matrix of minerals and other substances, including living cells -- MIT engineers have coaxed（哄骗，劝诱） ba...
Using ancient DNA analysis and other techniques, a research team led by conservation biologists at the University of California, Riverside has determi...
True monogamy（一夫一妻制） is rare in the animal kingdom. Even in species that appear to "mate for life," genetic maternity and paternity tests ha...
Colonial legacy has a significant impact on scientific productivity across the continent of Africa, according to a study by researchers at the Univers...
The results of a new study show that eating fried food more than four times a week had twice as big an effect on body mass index (BMI) for those with ...
Inspired by the space physics behind solar flares and the aurora（极光）, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton has uncovere...
Researchers from the Santa Fe Institute and the Smithsonian Institution have pieced together a highly detailed picture of feeding relationships among ...
An ancient stick insect（竹节虫） species may have mimicked plant leaves for defense, according to a paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on...