During the course of evolution, animals have adapted to the particular demands of their local environments in ways that increased...
A paper based on joint research by Prof. Yuan Changzheng from Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
Researchers from the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new method to realize...
Japanese astronomers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise in astronomical data due to...
The federal government has opposed a recommendation by a United Nations body that the Great Barrier Reef be listed as "in danger"....
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years...
The fast-moving decline and extinction of many species of detritivores—organisms that break down and remove dead plant and animal...
The global cryosphere—all of the areas with frozen water on Earth—shrank by about 87,000 square kilometers (about 33,000 square...
A team of researchers at the University of Colorado has found that fire ants can create 'appendages' on the rafts they make out...
Not only animals and humans host a complex community of microorganisms—plants do this as well. Researchers at ETH Zurich have...