The overuse of antibiotics has created strains of bacteria resistant to medication, making the diseases they cause difficult to treat, or even deadly....
A new study published in Biology Letters found that ship noise affects crab metabolism（新陈代谢）, with largest crabs faring worst, and found little eviden...
Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could see permanently frozen ground thaw（融解） over a large ...
A study, published by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), shows that just like humans love getting stuck into a crossword, chimpanzees get the sam...
Flowers' methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to a new study, published Febru...
"The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy（类似） to language," Charles Darwin wrote in "The Descent of Ma...
By analyzing Mercury's rocky surface, scientists have been able to partially reconstruct the planet's history over billions of years. Now, dra...
Sometimes the best discoveries come by accident. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, headed by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, ass...
A new climate model predicts an increase in snowfall for Earth's polar regions and highest altitudes, but an overall drop in snowfall for the glob...
A protein known for turning on genes to help cells survive low-oxygen conditions also slows down the copying of new DNA strands, thus shutting down th...