Technologically valuable ultrastable（超稳定的） glasses can be produced in days or hours with properties corresponding to those that have been aged for tho...
Many industrial plants depend on water vapor condensing on metal plates: In power plants, the resulting water is then returned to a boiler to be vapor...
The protoplanet（原行星） Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enorm...
Going against the flow is always a challenge, but some waterfall-climbing fish have adapted to their extreme lifestyle by using the same set of muscle...
A science-inclined audience and wide array of communications tools make the Internet an excellent opportunity for scientists hoping to share their res...
Two researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Oxford have demonstrated that hot chocolate tastes better in an oran...
Bigger brains can make animals, well, brainier, but that boost in brain size and ability comes at a price. That's according to new evidence report...
Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have figured out intimate details of how the hepatitis C virus（丙型肝炎病毒） takes over an inva...
A new study, published Dec. 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne（媒介传播的） and parasitic diseases have substantial effects...
Industries across Europe are threatened with shutdown as European Union emission rules for Volatile Organic Compounds are tightened. Now an air cleani...