It has long been known that distinctive blue flashes--a type of bioluminescence--that are visible at night in some marine environments are caused by t...
Pesticides and pollutants are related to a 450 percent increase in the risk of spina bifida and anencephaly（先天无脑畸形） in rural China, according to scien...
A human antibody given to monkeys infected with the deadly Hendra virus completely protected them from disease, according to a study published by Nati...
Smithsonian scientists have discovered two new, closely related bee species: one from Coiba Island in Panama and another from northern Colombia. Both ...
Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid（干旱的） grasslands of Kenya, or the t...
Genetic resistance to a parasitic nematode（线虫） that infects sheep has been discovered by a team of scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
For better and for worse, human health depends on a cell's motility -- the ability to crawl from place to place. In every human body, millions of ...
Antiviral drugs（抗病毒药） progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a new study shows. The University of Manchester scientists have previously shown th...
Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its ...
Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale r...