Glacier retreat areas provide an excellent window into the evolution of microbial communities, an ideal opportunity for scientists to study how quickl...
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum and international collaborators have described a new species of Hero Shrew -- the mammal with the most bizarr...
A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Snow Leopard Trust reveals a disturbing link between the cashmere(羊绒) trade and the decay of ecos...
Artists and craftsmen(工匠) more than 2,000 years ago developed thin-film coating technology unrivaled(无比的) even by today's standards for producing ...
One third of people diagnosed with throat cancer are infected with a form of the HPV virus, a study suggests.一项调查显示,1/3患咽喉癌的人同时感染了一种人乳头状瘤病毒。There are ...
The European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, captured this image of a gigantic coronal hole hovering over the sun's...
If you could hit the reset button on evolution and start over, would essentially the same species appear? Yes, according to a study of Caribbean lizar...
For nearly a century, the only bears known to reside in Missouri were on the state flag or in captivity. Unregulated hunting and habitat loss had wipe...
Almost 100 million euros has been spent so far on conservation efforts for the last 250 remaining Iberian lynxes in the wild. But the charismatic(超凡魅力...
Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 me...