Spending as little as 45 minutes in a high-crime, deprived neighborhood can have measurable effects on people's trust in others and their feelings...
Researchers have found a way to project future habitat locations under climate change, identifying potential safe havens for threatened biodiversity. ...
Members of the public have a negative view of climate engineering, the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to counteract climate ch...
Scientists studying the atmosphere above Barrow, Alaska, have discovered unprecedented levels of molecular chlorine(氯) in the air, a new study reports...
Whales, bats, and even praying mantises use ultrasound as a sensory guidance system -- and now a new study has found that ultrasound can modulate(调节) ...
Four years after the January 2010 earthquake, 145,000 people still remain homeless in Haiti. A cheap and simple technology to repair earthquake damage...
Press "1" if you're tired of being on hold! Nobody likes to wait, but since customer service can't be packaged to sit on a shelf rea...
When it comes to biofuels, corn leads the all-important category of biomass yield. However, focusing solely on yield comes at a high price. In the cur...
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an attogram(微微微克) -- one millionth of a trillionth of ...
Aggressive infections are a growing health problem all over the world. The development of resistant bacteria is rampant(猖獗的) and, in the United States...