A new ‘healthier blue food colouring’ could be possible in the future thanks to a metallic fruit that uses fat and reflection to generate a nutritious...
Research of killer whales in the southern Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean have shown that their blubber contains high levels of pollutants called PCBs, whilst killer whales...
"Lava tubes could provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation and micrometeorite impacts which are often happening on the surfaces of planetary bodies."
Far beneath the city of Dongshen in northern China, we have discovered what may be the 2 billion-year-old birthmarks of Earth’s first supercontinent. An anci
Although scientists often worry most about the loss of the world’s predators, a comprehensive new study finds that plant-eating herbivores are the animals most at risk...
Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat in its cellular structure, the first time this type...
BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — China is soliciting ideas for payloads aboard its proposed missions to the moon, an asteroid and a comet, according to the...
The metallic blue shade has an unusual origin
Fluorescence is typically associated with gases or liquids, but a team of chemists has conjured a new formula that gives solid materials that characteristic fluorescent glow....
Researchers want to continue exploring the island's plants, which are in danger from loggers and farmers.