The past decade has been one of unprecedented weather extremes. Scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany argue...
Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The dis...
Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia（痴呆） may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, in...
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona researchers, in collaboration with an experimental group from the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia, have created a cy...
The percentage of electronic waste occupying our landfills has grown at an alarming rate over the last decade, giving rise to concerns about the toxic...
Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, and two WUSTL students were cruising the ...
Scientists have long speculated about why there is a large change in the strength of rocks that lie at the boundary between two layers immediately und...
Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings due to be published in the journal Educational Studi...
An odd, previously unseen landform could provide a window into the geological history of Mars, according to new research by University of Washington g...
Hunting in the ocean's murky（黑暗的） depths, vision is of little use, so toothed whales and dolphins (odontocetes) rely on echolocation to locate tas...