A new method of establishing hair and eye colour from modern forensic（法院的） samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, fi...
Speculation about how animals will respond to climate change due to global warming led University of Illinois researcher Patrick Weatherhead and his s...
In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers led by faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Bayl...
Comets trailing wispy（纤细的） tails across the night sky are a beautiful byproduct of our solar system's formation, icy leftovers from 4.6 billion ye...
Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy -- a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap arou...
A new Department of Energy research facility could help bring the U.S. closer to generating power from the winds and waters along America's coasts...
The question 'How do songbirds sing?' is addressed in a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Biology. High-field ma...
When it comes to solving puzzles, animals in captivity are, well, different animals than their wild brethren（同胞）. Testing animals' ability to solv...
Chemists at the University of California, Davis, have engineered blue-green algae to grow chemical precursors（前体细胞） for fuels and plastics -- the firs...
A University of Alberta researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs use...