An Australian study to determine the likelihood of school-aged children waking up to their home smoke alarm found that 78% of children slept through a...
For rodent pups, bonding with mom isn't hard-wired in the womb（子宫） . It develops over the first few weeks of life, which is achieved by their matu...
A new study says chimps, gorillas and other primates grow old gracefully much like humans. The findings come from the first-ever multi-species compari...
One of the most complex human mysteries involves how and why we became an outlier（异常值） species in terms of biological success. Research findings publi...
A new study by scientists from Maryland and Colorado using American kestrels（美洲隼） , a surrogate（代理的） test species for raptorial birds, suggests that t...
In the thick of（在最激烈的时刻） whale season, researchers from Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...
What do you have when you line up a martial artist（武术家） , acrobatic gymnast, police officer, firefighter, NASCAR driver, and NFL running back? "W...
It's all too familiar: researchers announce the discovery of a new drug that eradicates（根除，消灭） disease in animals. Then, a few years later, the dr...
Japanese researchers have been immersing（浸泡） iron-based compounds in hot alcoholic beverages such as red wine, sake and shochu（烧酒） to induce supercond...
Scientists on the Norwich Research Park have sequenced the genome of a novel strain of Clostridium botulinum（肉毒杆菌） , one of the most dangerous pathoge...