You are not just yourself. You are also the thousands of microbes that you carry. In fact, they represent an invisible majority that may be more you t...
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have determined the orbital motion of two distinct populations of stars in an ancient globular sta...
Evaporation is so common that everybody thinks it's a well understood phenomenon. Appearances can be, however, deceptive(迷惑的). Recently, a new, ea...
The results of a major international effort to assess the status of dozens of European fish stocks find that many of those stocks in the northeast Atl...
If you squeeze a normal object in all directions, it shrinks in all directions. But a few strange materials will actually grow in one dimension when c...
We humans can remember events in our lives that happened years ago, with those memories often surfacing unexpectedly in response to sensory triggers: ...
A team led by William Fenical at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered a new chemical compound from an ocean microbe in a...
Polarisability determines the force with which an inhomogeneous(不同类的) external electric field acts on the ions of an ion beam. However, it can be quit...
The information carried by the electrical activity of neurons is a mixture of stored memories, environmental circumstances, and current state of mind,...
A five-year study by the Wildlife Conservation Society gives new hope to some of the world's most endangered primates by establishing a roadmap to...