17-04-05 Its a staple lunch-choice for city-workers all over the country and youre never far from a restaurant or supermarket selling the traditional Japanese delicacy. 寿司现在是英国大小城市上班族的主要午餐选择，附近随便哪家餐厅或超市都在卖这种传统日本美食...

13-12-11 The home team holds the advantage over visitors -- at least in the plant world. However, a mere handful of genetic adaptations could even the playing field. In the current issue of the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, Michigan State...

12-05-11 People don't always do as their neighbors do, and the same is true of neighboring chimpanzees. That's according to a report published online on May 10 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology featuring observations of wild chimps as they used hamme...

12-04-27 If Pygmies are known for one trait, it is their short stature: Pygmy men stand just 4'11 on average. But the reason why these groups are so short and neighboring groups are not remains unclear. Scientists have proposed various theories based on natu...

12-04-19 In a dog-eat-dog world of ruthless（无情的） competition and 'survival of the fittest,' new research from the University of Leicester reveals that individuals are genetically programmed to work together and cooperate with those who most resemble（类...

11-10-29 Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making polite conversation when she asked an Ethiopian teenager about her wedding day. The 16-year-old had already been married a year. 爱尔兰前总统玛丽罗宾森最近与一名埃塞俄比亚少女进行了友好交谈，询问...

11-01-04 When engineers restore rivers, one Kansas State University professor hopes they'll keep a smaller engineer in mind: the North American beaver（海狸） . Beavers are often called ecosystem engineers because they can radically alter stream or valley bo...