15-04-02 Nearly 30 ancient seashell species coloration patterns were revealed using ultraviolet (UV) light, according to a study published April 1, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jonathan Hendricks from San Jose State University, CA. Unlike thei...

14-04-25 A man was driving to work when a truck ran a stop sign hit his car broadside, and knocked him cold. Passerbys pulled him from the wreck and revived him. He began a terrific struggle and had to be tranquilized（使安静） by the medics. Later, when he...

13-05-31 Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles' most unusual shell came to be. The findings, reported on May 30 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, help to fill a 3...

12-10-30 Social animals usually congregate（聚集） for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a University of California, Berkeley, biologist has found that the terrestrial（陆地的） hermit crab has a more self-serving social agenda: to kick ano...

12-10-11 Oil giant Shell is due to appear in court in the Netherlands to face charges of polluting Nigerian villages. 石油巨头壳牌公司将要在荷兰出庭受审，该公司面临污染尼日利亚村庄的控诉。 The case is being brought by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch bran...

12-05-21 Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie（小孩） pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen -- the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South Ame...

11-07-15 Since the birth of the industrial revolution, ocean pH has dropped by 0.1 units. That might not sound like much until you realise that a 0.1 unit fall is a 30% increase in acidity. And, with predictions that ocean pH will continue plummeting（垂直落...

10-07-29 Second-quarter profits at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell have almost doubled after the firm completed a year-long corporate restructuring programme. 石油巨头荷兰皇家壳牌第二季度获利几乎翻倍，该成就得益于公司完成了一项长达一年的企业重组计划。 Shell said...

10-02-01 Royal Dutch Shell has shut three oil flow stations in Nigeria's Niger Delta region after a pipeline was sabotaged, a company spokeswoman has said. 荷兰皇家壳牌公司女发言人称，壳牌公司在尼日利亚尼日尔三角洲地区的一条输油管线被破坏，该公司因此关闭三座...

10-01-19 New insights洞察力，眼力 about a tiny snail蜗牛 that lives on the ocean floor could help scientists design better armor for soldiers and vehicles, according to MIT麻省理工学院 researchers. A team of materials scientists, led by MIT Associate Profess...