Investigative reporter Deng Fei won plaudits and nearly 3 million Chinese microblog followers with a string of articles on sensitive…
Month: February 2012
Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter
Two new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, bringing the Jovian family count up to 66 natural satellites, astronomers revealed…
World’s First Iridescent Mammal Discovered
Iridescence — a lustrous rainbow-like play of color caused by differential refraction of light waves — has just been detected…
“Supergiant,” Shrimp-Like Beasts Found in Deep Sea
Marine scientists have hoisted up a mysterious new species of “supergiant” amphipods from one of the deepest ocean trenches in…
Drinking milk could boost your brain power
Milk has long been known to help build healthy bones and provide the body with a vitamin and protein boost.…
Fungi Discovered, Will Eat Plastic
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by…
Live Snub-Nosed Monkeys Caught on Camera
A snub-nosed monkey crouches in a mountain jungle in northern Myanmar (Burma) this past spring in one of several pictures…
‘Panic button’ could help cancer defy drugs
Stressed yeast cells frantically reshuffle their chromosomes in a desperate last bid to find a combination that survives. This “panic”…
Defender of the weakest
Tony Boursiquot flashes the smile known to thousands of poor children and others across Haiti as he negotiates his SUV…
Cream can clear skin cancer without surgery
A radioactive ‘paint’ could cure up to 3,000 people with skin cancer every year. In just two hours, the new…