Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered a protein that does its best work with one foot in the grave. The study, which appears in the...
A new study of the batteries commonly used in hybrid and electric-only cars has revealed an unexpected factor that could limit the performance of batt...
A new high-resolution climate study by University of Massachusetts Amherst climate scientists, the first to apply regional climate models to examine l...
One common idea about why there are fewer women professors in the sciences than men is that women are less willing to work the long hours needed to su...
Consumers are more likely to make emotional instead of objective assessments when the outcomes are closer to the present time than when they are furth...
A University of British Columbia researcher has helped create a gel -- based on the mussel's knack（诀窍，本领） for clinging to rocks, piers（支墩） and boa...
Participating in online social networks can have a detrimental effect（有害作用） on consumer well-being by lowering self-control among certain users, accor...
Consumers assume their risk of getting a serious illness is higher when medications are cheaper because they believe that prices for life-saving produ...
A system that uses ultrasound technology to look inside car engines could lead to more efficient engines -- and huge fuel savings for motorists. Ultra...
The asteroid（小行星） collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also led to extreme devastation among snake and lizard species, according to n...