Chimpanzees and orangutans can experience a mid-life crisis just like humans, a study suggests. This is the finding from a new study, published in the...
A new study by researchers at Imperial College London has identified a way in which Salmonella bacteria, which cause gastroenteritis(肠胃炎) and typhoid(...
Thermoelectric devices, which can harness temperature differences to produce electricity, might be made more efficient thanks to new research on heat ...
At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world's oceans may remain completely unknown to science. That's despite the fact that more ...
A University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists has found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago --...
The breeding population of chinstrap penguins has declined significantly as temperatures have rapidly warmed on the Antarctic Peninsula, according to ...
The human nose has millions of olfactory(嗅觉的) neurons grouped into hundreds of different neuron types. Each of these neuron types expresses only one o...
Can we actually read words and phrases and solve multi-step mathematical problems without our having consciously been aware of them? A team in the Psy...
Grasshoppers are having to change their song -- one of the iconic sounds of summer -- to make themselves heard above the din(喧嚣) of road traffic, ecol...
The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova(超新星) remnant W44, which combines far-infrared a...