日期：2013-09-26 A new method for visualising chromosomes is painting a truer picture of their shape, which is rarely like the X-shaped blob of DNA most of us are familiar with. Scientists at the BBSRC-funded Babraham Institute, working with the University of Cambri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-26 Using a particular type of titanium dioxide -- a common ingredient in cosmetics（化妆品） , food products, toothpaste and sunscreen -- could reduce the potential health risks associated with the widely used compound. The report on the substance, pro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-26 An international team of archaeologists led by experts from the University of York has uncovered evidence of human activity in the high slopes of the French Alps dating back over 8000 years. The 14-year study in the Parc National des Ecrins in the s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-26 A previously unknown genus of electric fish has been identified in a remote region of South America by team of international researchers including University of Toronto Scarborough professor Nathan Lovejoy. The Akawaio penak, a thin, eel-like electr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-26 A recent paper published in the open access journal Zookeys provides a first-time glimpse in the natural history of the enigmatic（神秘的） spider species Progradungula otwayensis. Lurking in the hollows of old myrtle（桃金娘） beech（山毛榉） trees... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-26 Teeming with species, tropical coral reefs have been long thought to be the areas of greatest biodiversity for fishes and other marine life -- and thus most deserving of resources for conservation. But a new global study of reef fishes reveals a sur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-26 University of Adelaide researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial. The innovative nanotechnology uses non-biodegradable plastic grocery bags to make 'carbon nanotube membranes' -- highly sophist... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-26 Oxygen appeared in the atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than we previously thought, according to research published today in the journal Nature, raising new questions about the evolution of early life. Researchers from the University of Co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-25 People who are married when diagnosed with cancer live longer than those who are not, report researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Married patients also tended to have cancers diagnosed at an earlier stage --... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-25 For years, scientists have thought that a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous Period more than 90 million years ago when the climate was much warmer than it is today. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found evidence su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-25 Sleep researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today offer the first research results showing that classroom naps support learning in preschool children by enhancing memory. Children who napped performed significantly better on a visua... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-25 Moths in northern Finland are less susceptible to rising temperatures than expected, suggesting high latitude moth populations around the world may be partly buffered from the effects of rapid climate warming, according to a new Dartmouth-Finnish st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-25 Acupuncture（针灸） or counselling, provided alongside usual care, could benefit patients with depression, according to a study by researchers at the University of York. The study, conducted by a team led by Dr Hugh MacPherson, of the Department of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-25 While calcium supplements noticeably improved bone health in post-menopausal women, vitamin D supplements did not reduce bone turnover, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-23 US researchers suggest smells could be used to calm fears - while people sleep. 美国研究人员建议，在人们睡觉的时候可以使用气味驱赶恐惧。 People were trained to associate two images, linked to smells, with fear. During sleep they were exposed to one... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-23 A drug that was used to treat a skin disorder has shown signs of being able to treat aspects of type 1 diabetes. 一种治疗皮肤病的药物似有可以用于治疗1型糖尿病的迹象。 A small trial on US patients suggests that alefacept helps the body produce its ow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-23 A recently published study strongly suggests men succumb to（屈服于） sexual temptations more than women -- for example, cheating on a partner -- because they experience strong sexual impulses, not because they have weak self-control. Previous resea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-23 Molecular microbiologists at the University of Southern California (USC) have uncovered intricate（复杂的） regulatory mechanisms within the cell that could lead to novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Their findings, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-23 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Imperial College London have identified the site where the widely used anesthetic（麻醉的） drug propofol（异丙酚） binds to receptors in the brain to sedate patients during su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-22 Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown how a protein fragment known as beta- amyloid（淀粉体） , strongly implicated in Alzheimer's disease, begins destroying synapses（突触） before it clumps into plaques that lead to n... 阅读全文>>