In the marine world, high-energy prey make for high-energy predators. And to survive, such marine predators need to sustain the right kind of high-ene...
For the first time, researchers tracking the behavior of emperor penguins near the sea have identified the importance of sea ice for the penguins'...
Less than 2% of Earth's fossils are preserved in volcanic rock, but researchers have identified a new one: the skull of a rhino that perished in a...
Each winter, wide swaths（细长的列） of the Arctic Ocean freeze to form sheets of sea ice that spread over millions of square miles. This ice acts as a mass...
Scientists are developing new materials which could one day allow people to print out custom-designed personal electronics such as games controllers w...
Scientists have discovered an enzyme used in nature to make powerful chemicals from catnip（猫薄荷） to a cancer drug, vinblastine（长春花碱）. The discovery ope...
A new study looking at the structure of feathers in bird-like dinosaurs has shed light on one of nature's most remarkable inventions -- how flight...
Dogs learning to associate words with objects form these associations in different ways than humans do, according to research published November 21 in...
Portable, accurate, and highly sensitive devices that sniff out vapors（蒸汽） from explosives and other substances could become as commonplace as smoke d...
Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a system to quickly detect trace amounts（微量） of chemicals like pollutants, explosives or illegal ...