A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot from the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia. Th...
Helping bridge the gap between photonics（光电） and electronics, researchers from Purdue University have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride（氮化物） into...
Ecologists in New Zealand have shown for the first time that Marine Protected Areas -- long advocated as a way of protecting threatened marine mammals...
Common material such as polyethylene（聚乙烯） used in plastic bags could be turned into something far more valuable through a process being developed at t...
Use of a patient's bone marrow cells for treating chronic ischemic（缺血性的） heart failure did not result in improvement on most measures of heart fun...
The huge changes in Earth's crust that influenced human evolution are being redefined, according to research published March 26 in Nature Geoscien...
Western Europe has long been held to be the "cradle" of Neandertal evolution since many of the earliest discoveries were from sites in this ...
Identity confusion between a new, yet unnamed shark species, originally discovered off the eastern United States by Nova Southeastern University Ocean...
Compelling（引人注目的） evidence of the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea corals will be published online in the Early Edition of the jo...
Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simple activities that the majority of us don't question. But an inter...