When leatherback（棱皮龟） turtle hatchlings dig out of their nests buried in the sandy Playa Grande beach in northwest Costa Rica, they enter a world fill...
Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen--the building blocks of all life on Earth--have been the targets of missions to Mars from Vik...
Researchers reporting online on May 24 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology present the first evidence that areas closed to all fishing are helpi...
A forensic（法院的，辩论的） approach that links changes deep below a volcano to signals at the surface is described by scientists from the University of Brist...
Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower. Determining ...
The universe is a marvelously complex place, filled with galaxies and larger-scale structures that have evolved over its 13.7-billion-year history. Th...
Calcium supplements might increase the risk of having a heart attack, and should be "taken with caution," concludes research published in th...
Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world&#...
Scientists at the University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a sensory organ in rorqual（须鲸科） whales that coordinat...
A new bright yellow frog species has been found in the mountains of western Panama. The frog belongs to a species-rich group of frogs, the so called r...