Using gravitational "lenses" in space, University of Utah astronomers discovered that the centers of the biggest galaxies are growing denser...
When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster（果蝇） fruit flies came along with them. Now the fruit...
A new report published today by Panthera confirms that widespread illegal hunting and the bushmeat trade occur more frequently and with greater impact...
Scientists from the University of Southampton have identified a repeating trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth. The Las Ca&nt...
The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon's surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as th...
Chinese emperors were once thought by their subjects able to make it rain with their prayers. Chinese officials today put more trust in science. They ...
A new study improves our understanding of plasma sources, a state of matter similar to gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionised and...
Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons（情感符） in text messages, according to a new study from Rice University. Emoticons are graphic symbols ...
At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical chemistry says they should -- be...
New research led by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. "T...