How far into the past can ice-core records go? Scientists have now identified regions in Antarctica they say could store information about Earth's...
NASA's Kepler space telescope, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to answer its main research que...
It seems like everything can make us addicted these days. Our iPhones. The internet. Oreos. But just because something is pleasurable and causes a rel...
The risks to public health from fracking for shale gas are low, according to a new official report.一份新的官方报道称，液压开采页岩气影响公众健康的风险很小。Any problems publicise...
Forests with dense canopies create a microclimate that protects a variety of cold-adapted plant species from warming air temperatures, a study has sho...
An increase in aridity（干旱） due to global warming will disturb the balance of nutrients in the soil and reduce productivity of the world's drylands...
As American schools struggle with issues of race, diversity and achievement, a new study in the American Sociological Review has split the difference ...
Oysters（牡蛎） begin their lives as tiny drifters, but when they mature they settle on reefs. New research from North Carolina State University shows tha...
The ever-increasing threat from "superbugs" -- strains of pathogenic bacteria that are impervious（不受影响的） to the antibiotics that subdued the...
In an example of the challenges water-strapped Western cities will face in a warming world, new research shows that every degree Fahrenheit of warming...