Archaeologists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have discovered a cluster of 12 unusual stones in the back of a small,...
Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ...
Safety fears about carbon nanotubes, due to their structural similarity to asbestos（石棉）, have been alleviated following research showing that reducing...
A high-tech robotic fish hatched at Michigan State University has a new look. A new skill. And a new name. MSU scientists have made a number of improv...
Using the meticulous（一丝不苟的） phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have demonstrate...
Genetic differences are significantly associated with the likelihood that people take on managerial responsibilities, according to new research from U...
While the iconic Haleakalā silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climat...
Exposing pregnant mice to low doses of the chemical tributyltin（三丁基锡） -- which is used in marine hull（船体，外壳） paint and PVC plastic -- can lead to obes...
People's memory for Facebook posts is strikingly stronger than their memory for human faces or sentences from books, according to a new study. The...
In addition to causing smoggy skies and chronic coughs, soot（煤烟，烟灰） -- or black carbon -- turns out to be the number two contributor to global warming...