The trade in live plants from around the world has become a major industry in the United States, with new imports now valued at more than $500 billion...
The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes...
Many Christians give up certain foods for Lent, however ecologists have discovered these changes in human diet have a dramatic impact on the diet of w...
Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically impenetrable barrier. While quantum t...
The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid（吡虫啉） , one of the most widely used pesticides, accordin...
Hidden in the mud, the cone snail Conus purpurascens lies in wait for its victims. It attracts its prey, fish, with its proboscis（鼻子） , which can move...
A three-year study of giant pandas published 4 April 2012 in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press reveals that reproductive seasonality exist...
Researchers have found a way to measure the likelihood of global stock market losses by identifying periods in which shocks may be more likely to spre...
Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but e...
American students need a dramatically new approach to improve how they learn science, says a noted group of scientists and educators led by Michigan S...