Pity the male of the marine whelk（峨螺）, Solenosteira macrospira. He does all the work of raising the young, from egg-laying to hatching -- even though ...
With the help of beneficial bacteria, plants can slam the door when disease pathogens come knocking, University of Delaware researchers have discovere...
Previous estimates about the total mass of all life on our planet have to be reduced by about one third. This is the result of a study by a German-U.S...
Refrigerating coal-plant emissions would reduce levels of dangerous chemicals that pour into the air -- including carbon dioxide by more than 90 perce...
The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Ce...
A long-standing mystery in biology about the longer lifespans of bigger creatures may be explained by the application of a physical law called the Con...
Sunbathing may be healthy -- at least for one group of North American insects that apparently uses the activity to fight off germs, Simon Fraser Unive...
Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without im...
Only two per cent of Canadians believe climate change is not occurring, a new important survey released August 24 by IPAC-CO2 Research Inc. concluded....
Numerous processes in our body fluctuate（波动，动摇） in a regular pattern during the day. These circadian (or daily) variations can be driven by local osci...