Cuckoos that lay their eggs in the nest of a magpie（喜鹊） so that their chicks can be raised by the latter better hope that their young are not raised t...
Brigham Young University geologists found evidence of some of the largest volcanic eruptions in earth's history right in their own backyard. These...
From 2000 to 2010, about 1,900 cyclones churned across the top of the world each year, leaving warm water and air in their wakes -- and melting sea ic...
To protect themselves, some animals rapidly change color when their environments change, but chameleons change colors in unusual ways when they intera...
A common soil dwelling bacterium appears to possess a sense of touch, researchers have shown. A study, by Dr James Stratford at The University of Nott...
A long-proboscid fly with an extra-long, tongue-like proboscis（鼻子） might seem to take extra-long to feed on a flower, but it actually has an advantage...
Less than 20 miles from the site where melting ice exposed the 5,000-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman, scientists have discovered new and compell...
The degree to which students' exam scores differ owes more to their genes than to their teachers, schools or family environments, according to new...
Air flows mostly in a one-way loop（环，圈） through the lungs of monitor lizards -- a breathing method shared by birds, alligators and presumably（大概，推测） d...
Blood clots play an unexpected role in protecting the body from the deadly effects of bacteria by absorbing bacterial toxins, researchers at the Unive...