Alternative means of controlling urban insect pests by using ultrasonic frequencies are available and marketed to the public. However, few of these de...
Vertebrates' transition to living on land, instead of only in water, represented a major event in the history of life. Now, researchers reporting ...
Onion and garlic waste from the food industry could be used to mop up hazardous heavy metals, including arsenic(砷), cadmium(镉), iron, lead, mercury an...
Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today's electricity expenses, acc...
Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine's quills knows that once they go in, they are extremely difficult to remove. Researchers at MIT...
Moving in with a boyfriend causes women to eat more unhealthily and put on weight.But the opposite is true for men, whose long-term health benefits wh...
Research has shown a decrease in levels of the isotope nitrogen-15 in core samples from Greenland ice starting around the time of the Industrial Revol...
It is well known that plant growth patterns are influenced by a variety of stimuli, gravity being one amongst many. On Earth plant roots exhibit chara...
A new class of drugs reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, ...
It's well known how bacteria exposed to antibiotics for long periods will find ways to resist the drugs -- by quickly pumping them out of their ce...