Fossil fuel companies have been funding smear（诽谤，污点） campaigns that raise doubts about climate change, writes John Sauven in the latest issue of Index...
Some blue whales off the coast of California change their behavior when exposed to the sort of underwater sounds used during U.S. military exercises. ...
New research shows that existing copper resources can sustain increasing world-wide demand for at least a century, meaning social and environmental co...
An 1,800-year-old carved stone head of what is believed to be a Roman god has been unearthed in an ancient rubbish dump. Archaeologists made the disco...
Subjectivity is problematic when evaluating fingerprints, and quality is in the eye of the examiner. But three computer programs used together can giv...
Neurodegenerative（神经变性的） diseases such as Alzheimer's could be better understood thanks to insight into proteins linked to such conditions, a stud...
For young lizards born into this unpredictable world, their very first meal can be a major life changer. So say researchers who report evidence on Jul...
The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies. Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Teles...
Whitehead Institute researchers have determined that the transcription factor（转录因子） Nanog, which plays a critical role in the self-renewal of embryoni...
University of Adelaide research has produced a potential new antibiotic which could help in the battle against bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Th...