A specially-adapted 'tactile helmet', developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, could provide fire-fighters operating in challe...
Earth is dynamic. What we perceive as solid ground beneath our feet, is in reality constantly changing. In the space of a year Africa and America are ...
For the first time, an elusive step in the process of human DNA replication has been demystified by scientists at Penn State University. According to ...
Pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams, with unknown impacts on aquatic（水生的） life and water quality. So reports a ne...
Amazing news for lazy people; sleep makes you smarter. Not studying, reading or revising, just sleeping, although the other three won't hurt eithe...
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a component of the herpesvirus（疱疹病毒） that "hijacks" machinery inside human cells, allowing ...
Like tiny, crawling compass needles, whole living cells and cell fragments orient and move in response to electric fields -- but in opposite direction...
Messier 77 is a galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, some 45 million light-years away from us. Also known as NGC 1068, it is one of the most famous a...
Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines. Researchers in the She...
The genome of the mountain pine beetle -- the insect that has devastated B.C.'s lodgepole pine（美国黑松） forests -- has been decoded by researchers at...