日期：2012-05-11 The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions are made by climate researchers of the Al... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-11 A study led by a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and published in the May 10 issue of the journal Neuron suggests a potential new therapeutic approach for improving memory and interrupting disease progression in patients with a form of cognitive impair... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-11 With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging services, smart phones have revolutionized the way we communicate. But at what cost? According to researchers at Tel Aviv University, the smart phone is challenging t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-11 People don't always do as their neighbors do, and the same is true of neighboring chimpanzees. That's according to a report published online on May 10 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology featuring observations of wild chimps as they used hamme... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-11 A carbon nanotube sponge that can soak up（吸收） oil in water with unparalleled（无比的） efficiency has been developed with help from computational simulations performed at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Carbon n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-11 Social jetlag（时差综合症） -- a syndrome related to the mismatch between the body's internal clock and the realities of our daily schedules -- does more than make us sleepy. It is also contributing to the growing tide of obesity, according to a lar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-10 Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new green source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-10 As people pump groundwater for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses, the water doesn't just seep（渗） back into the ground -- it also evaporates（蒸发） into the atmosphere, or runs off into rivers and canals, eventually emptying into（... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-10 Estimates of whale population size based on genetics versus historical records diverge greatly, making it difficult to fully understand the ecological implications of the large-scale commercial whaling of the 19th and early 20th centuries, but a com... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-10 After completing the first study of its kind, researchers at McMaster University have discovered that very early musical training benefits children even before they can walk or talk. They found that one-year-old babies who participate in interactive... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-10 Groupers（石斑鱼类） , a family of fishes often found in coral reefs and prized for their quality of flesh, are facing critical threats to their survival. As part of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commissi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-10 Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes（沙丘） and ripples moving across the surface of Mars -- observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot of movement on the red planet's surf... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-09 The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life form in the galaxy has, for many, seemed like an unl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-09 A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study led by a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. In 2009 an ambiti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-09 With the age of the incandescent light（白炽灯） bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white light. One of the few alternative technologi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-09 Conservationists working in Cameroon's Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary have collected the first camera trap video footage of the Cross River gorilla. With fewer than 250 individuals remaining, Cross River gorillas are the world's rarest gorilla and a noto... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-08 On May 1, USDA Forest Service, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Memphis Zoo, and other partners released seven young Louisiana pine snakes on a restored longleaf pine stand in the Kisatchie National... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-08 Living close to a major highway poses a significant risk to heart attack survivors, reinforcing the need to isolate housing developments from heavy traffic areas, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study concludes. Writing in the May 7 edition o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-08 Giving people the freedom -- but not too much freedom -- to express themselves may help designers build more interactive web portals and online communities, according to Penn State researchers. The researchers found that people increased their inter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-08 New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes（大草原） of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia. The research was published 07 May,... 阅读全文>>