A novel virus has been identified as the possible cause of a common but mysterious disease that kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the ...
Engineers at Oregon State University have made a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce electricity directly from wa...
It may not make chocolate one of your five a day -- but scientists have found a way to replace up to 50 percent of its fat content with fruit juice. U...
Leaving your TV show midway because you had to leave your home will no longer happen as you can now 'pull' the programme on your TV screen ont...
Gamma-ray photons（光子） seen emanating（放射） from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing（有趣的） possibility that dark-matter ...
A freshwater snail declared extinct in 2000 was recently rediscovered in the Cahaba River by a University of Alabama graduate student. Details of the ...
For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics（板块构造论） existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discove...
Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals（准晶体） have provided convincing ev...
During the Neolithic Age（新石器时代） (approximately 10000-6000 BCE), early man evolved from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, living in larger...
Contrary to popular belief, purified drinking water from home faucets（水龙头） contains millions to hundreds of millions of widely differing bacteria per ...