Computer science researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique to determine which strategies give players an edge at win...
Forensic DNA-based familial search methods may mistakenly identify individuals in a database as siblings or parents of an unknown perpetrator（犯罪者）, wh...
For more than a century scientists have known that Earth's ice ages are caused by the wobbling（摆动，颤抖） of the planet's orbit, which changes its...
A radical shortening of their bony tails over 100 million years ago enabled the earliest birds to develop versatile（多才多艺的） legs that gave them an evol...
New research shows that a class of materials being eyed for the next generation of computers behaves asymmetrically at the sub-atomic level. This rese...
A strain of bacteria that causes skin and soft tissue infections in humans originally came from cattle, according to a study to be published in mBio&r...
Adjacent to the walls of our arterioles（小动脉）, capillaries（毛细血管）, and venules（小静脉） -- the blood vessels that make up our microcirculation -- there exis...
Smartphones are a great way to check in on the latest weather predictions, but new research aims to use the batteries in those same smartphones to pre...
The "near-death experience" reported by cardiac arrest survivors worldwide may be grounded in science, according to research at the Universi...
When egg and sperm combine, the new embryo bustles with（充满） activity. Its cells multiply so rapidly they largely ignore their DNA, other than to copy ...