After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals, and an unprecedente...
An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile（不稳定的） stellar bla...
Evidence that a Florentine merchant house financed the earliest English voyages to North America, has been published on-line in the academic journal H...
Scientists have predicted that ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial（赤道的） Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc（肆虐） on coral reef...
Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question remains: were din...
In a single new scientific publication, 24 new species of lizards known as skinks（小蜥蜴） , all from islands in the Caribbean, have been discovered and s...
New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the mode...
Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation（环境卫生） . Now a scientist at Michigan Technological Universit...
A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout（虔诚的） believers. The study, which...
A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride（氮化硼） nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electropora...