New research from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University shows there is substantial variation in the first-time divorce rate when it is broken down by race and education. But, there is also evid...
Boys are maturing physically earlier than ever before. The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing by about 2.5 months each decade at least since the middle of the 18th century. Joshua Goldstein, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographi...
For 20 000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Nio Southern Oscillation) known as El Nio/La Nia. During the cold phase of La Nia, there is marginal rainfa...
The decline of large predators（捕食者） and other apex（顶点） consumers at the top of the food chain has disrupted ecosystems all over the planet, according to a review of recent findings conducted by an international team of scientists an...
As any student who's had to study for multiple exams can tell you, trying to learn two different sets of facts one after another is challenging. As you study for the physics exam, almost inevitably some of the information for the history exam is forg...
Ground-nesting birds face an uphill（向上的） struggle to successfully rear their young, many eggs and fledglings（刚会飞的幼鸟） falling prey to predators. Now, scientists from the USA have found that some birds eavesdrop（窃听） on...
Glasses differ from crystals. Crystals are organized in repeating patterns that extend in every direction. Glasses lack this strict organization, but do sometimes demonstrate order among neighboring atoms. New research from Carnegie's Geophysical Lab...
Five cheetah（猎豹） cubs were born May 28 to 6-year-old Amani at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. Amani is a dedicated mother according to keepers, who have observed her nursing and grooming the cubs. This litte...
Want to convince someone to do something? A new University of Michigan study has some intriguing（有趣的） insights drawn from how we speak. The study, presented May 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Researc...
Even relatively mild（温和的） stress can lead to long term disability and an inability to work, reveals a large population based study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology（流行病学） and Community Health. It is well known that...
