Can Li – Asian Scientist Magazine

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Ants, which account for half of all insect biomass in the world, are beneficial to agriculture in more ways than one.

Male hormones turn out to be more important for developing ovaries than testes, at least in chickens.

Researchers in Japan have designed a robot that uses decentralized control to change from walking to trotting and galloping.

The plant built by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has the capacity produce 100,000 metric tons of ethanol per year.

Every time a cell in the early embryo divides, three mutations creep in; a rate much higher than previously thought.

Results from a new experiment shows that finding sterile neutrinos may be more challenging than we thought.

The rate decay of beryllium into helium is too slow to explain the Universe's missing lithium, researchers say.

This photocatalyst is able to completely decompose organic pollutants in wastewater in just 20 minutes.

Scientists in India have discovered a greener method to producing vanillin, the main flavor compound in vanilla.