Giants once roamed the karst plains of southern China,three-metre tall apes weighing in at 250 kilograms.These very distant human ancestors–Gigantopithcus blacki–went extinct before humans arrived in the region,with...
Fossils of a strange early giraffoid have revealed the key driving forces in giraffe evolution,according to a study led by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP)of the Ch...
In the vast universe,some extremely strong radio waves occasionally blink,with durations of only milliseconds.Such fast radio bursts were discovered by astronomers in 2007.Puzzling questions arise:Who sent them?What i...
Our solar neighborhood has many asymmetries, suchasarchshape,snailshapeandridge shape. Up to now, our astronomers are still not s ure about the origins and evolution of the famous ridge structure due to the lack of cl...
Plants can keep grow ing indefinitely because they have tissues made of meristems-plant stem cells-which have the unique ability to transform themselves into the various specialized cells that make up the plant,dividi...
Outdoor air pollution,under certain atmospheric conditions,can meld into a dark,dangerous haze.It makes people sick,halts flights,and closes highways.And it’s happening more often,according to a paper recently publis...
1.Neutrino research occupies an important position in particle physics In 1930,Austrian physicist Pauli[1]proposed the neutrino hypothesis to explain the loss of energy in the process of beta decay.But since neutrinos...
Hit with a rubber mallet, a group of 12 stalactites ( popularly known as dripstones), in the Kongshan Cave, central China’s Hubei Province can amazingly produce various notes and complete melodies like ancient musica...
A long-standing mystery about the functional roles of the N-terminal region of protein N-myristoyltransferase, an ideal target for antifungal drugs, was recently decoded, thanks to the three-
opaque assemblages (OAs) vere once thought to be "the oldest objects in the solar system." After careful studies of OAs in primitive meteorites, a group of Chinese and US scientists have recently found that this ...