On a recent expedition to the inhospitable（荒凉的） North Atlantic Ocean, scientists at the University of Washington and collaborators studying the annual...
The effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm -- Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) -- could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an i...
A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first to fully model walking in a biologically accurate manner....
Humans have known for centuries that copper is a potent weapon against infection. New research shows that the bacteria that cause serious urinary trac...
Climate change drove coral reefs to a total ecosystem collapse lasting thousands of years, according to a paper published this week in Science. The pa...
A U of S-led international research team has discovered that aerosols（气溶胶） from relatively small volcanic eruptions can be boosted into the high atmos...
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder indicates air pollution in the form of nitrogen compounds emanating from power plants, automobil...
More of the United States is in moderate drought or worse than at any other time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials from th...
University of Adelaide researchers have discovered that recent climate change is causing leaves of some Australian plants to narrow in size. The study...
Brown widow spiders are relatively new to North America, where they were first documented in Florida in 1935, and even newer to southern California, w...