A new study reconstructing the evolutionary tree of flu viruses challenges conventional wisdom and solves some of the mysteries surrounding flu outbre...
Lemurs（狐猴）, the most endangered mammal group on Earth, represent more than 20 per cent of the world's primates. Native only to Madagascar, more th...
The brains of jazz musicians engrossed in spontaneous, improvisational（即兴的） musical conversation showed robust activation of brain areas traditionally...
Generating electricity is not the only way to turn sunlight into energy we can use on demand（即期）. The sun can also drive reactions to create chemical ...
Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere（磁气圈）, has mu...
Using a telescope installed at the driest place on earth -- Ridge A in Antarctica -- a UNSW-led team of researchers has identified a giant gas cloud w...
Here are two facts that make the lowly barnacle（藤壶） important: They are popular models for ecology research, and they are very sensitive to temperatur...
Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Model S, Nissan Leaf -- or one of many other new models -- shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in...
On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 20...
Food-finding tests in five lemur species show that fruit-eaters may have better spatial memory than lemurs with a more varied diet. The results suppor...