If you keep a garden and have never been bothered by aphids, you are lucky. But one day you may find your rose bushes or bean plants covered--almost overnight--with these green, greedy sap-suckers. What allows aphids--and thousands of other species--...
A debate team from Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in the southern port city of Kaohsiung won the English as a foreign language (EFL) category of the Northeast Asian Open 2008 Debating Championship earlier this month. 文藻外语学院位于台湾...
If asked to imagine the first prehistoric tools, crafted and used by our early, hominid ancestors, you'd probably think of crude knives or spear heads, chipped from stone.You probably aren't aware of another human innovation that might be just as old...
In our beauty conscious culture, people will go to great lengths to improve their appearance. Liposuction, tummy tucks, silicone implants--it's all been done. But surely we wouldn't resort to injecting ourselves with a toxic substance that causes bot...
National Yangming University was recently the site of an international conference on the role of women in science. Arthur Chen, director of Yangming's Center of International Affairs, spoke of the pervasive influence of stereotypes in our lives. 国立...
Stroke is the number one cause of adult disability. But it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, if someone having a stroke gets to the hospital in time, drugs used to break up the blood clot in the brain that's causing the stroke can prevent much of...
The average American consumes over twenty gallons of milk per year. Today cow's milk and products made from it, such as butter, cheese and yogurt, are a regular part of the diet in most parts of the world. But did you ever stop to wonder when and how...
Dear Annie: My sister and her husband have some habits that really turn me off when I visit. They leave dirty pots and pans on the stove for weeks. They allow used dishes, cups and utensils to pile up in the sink until it is overflowing. They have a...
If you find yourself away from a city, spend an hour looking up on any clear, moonless night,you're bound to see a few brilliant shooting stars. These actually have nothing to do with stars: They're meteors, and if your viewing conditions are good, y...
It's time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. 又到了科学时刻读信时间。 A listener writes in: Dear A Moment of Science, I love to eat sweets--candy, cookies, caramel apples--- everything. But I don't like getting cavities. Is t...
