To the ancients, probing the philosophical（哲学的） question of how to distinguish the living from the dead centered on the "mystery of the vital hea...
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking（潜伏） behind walls and other objects. Now we could all have X-ray vision, th...
Arizona State University researchers have discovered for the first time that temperature determines where key soil microbes can thrive -- microbes tha...
As the world becomes increasingly connected, the need to ensure the proper functioning of its many underlying networks -- such as the Internet, power ...
The antibacterial effects of silver are well established. Now, researchers at Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, have developed a techniqu...
Reporting this month in Molecular Microbiology, Peter Chien and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst describe using a combination of ...
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have trapped the ribosome（核糖体）, a protein-building molecular machine essential to all life, in...
A new report on sea level rise recommends that the State of Maryland should plan for a rise in sea level of as much as 2 feet by 2050. Led by the Univ...
You say tomato, I say comparative transcriptomics（转录组学）. Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan have produced the first comparison of both the DNA ...
Lemurs（狐猴） from species that hang out in big tribes are more likely to steal food behind your back instead of in front of your face. This behavior sug...