Thousands of chemicals serving a variety of human needs flood into sewage treatment plants once their use life has ended. Many belong to a class of ch...
Researchers using custom-built GPS and accelerometer loggers, developed with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPS...
Humans and some of our hominid（人类及其祖先的） ancestors such as Homo erectus have been walking for more than a million years, and researchers are close to f...
A new species of toad was discovered hiding in the leaf litter（落叶层） of the Peruvian Yungas. The word is used widely by the locals to describe ecoregio...
Patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS纤维肌痛综合症) typically have widespread chronic pain and fatigue. For those with low vitamin D levels, vitamin D su...
From the sleek（圆滑的） hulls of racing yachts to Michael Phelps' shaved legs, most objects that move through the water quickly are also smooth. But r...
The world's zoos work hard and spend enormous resources on the conservation of endangered species, but the resources are not always optimally spen...
Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeede...
As the abundance of genetically modified (GM) foods continues to grow, so does the demand for monitoring and labeling them. The genes of GM plants use...
Although Narcissus himself might not have been able to step away from his reflection in the mirror to get to the office, when it comes to leadership, ...