日期：2011-12-14 A new chemical technique for depositing a non-crystalline form of silicon into the long, ultra-thin pores of optical fibers has been developed by an international team of scientists in the United States and the United Kingdom. The technique, which i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-14 A study conducted by Columbia Business School's Prof. Stephan Meier, Regina Pitaro Associate Professor of Business, Management, and Charles Sprenger, Assistant Professor, Stanford University Department of Economics, determines that there may be a ps... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-14 Does she or doesn't she . . .? Sexual cues are ambiguous, and confounding（混杂） . We -- especially men -- often read them wrong. A new study hypothesizes that the men who get it wrong might be the ones that evolution has favored. There are tons of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-14 A new study published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (AOGS) reveals that both pre-pregnant weight (body mass index, BMI) and weight gain in pregnancy are important predictors of babies' birthweight. This is important si... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-14 Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a jelly-like material and wound treatment method that, in early experiments on skin damaged by severe burns, appeared to regenerate healthy, scar-free tissue. In the Dec. 12-16 online Early Edition of Proceed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-14 High levels of tau（牛磺酸） protein in fluid bathing the brain are linked to poor recovery after head trauma, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Polic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-13 Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children's infancy and pre-school years, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. Researchers analyzed National Institute... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-13 Elephants have long been known to be part of the Homo erectus（直立人） diet. But the significance of this specific food source, in relation to both the survival of Homo erectus and the evolution of modern humans, has never been understood -- until... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-13 Field work by researcher Fred Kraus from Bishop Museum, Honolulu has found the world's smallest frogs in southeastern New Guinea. This also makes them the world's smallest tetrapods（四足动物） (non-fish vertebrates). The frogs belong to the genus P... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-13 The eel-like body and scrawny（瘦骨如柴的） limbs of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion（运动） . But its improbable walking behavior, newly described by University of Chicago scientists, redraws the ev... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-13 A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement -- in particular, the idea that girls and women have less ability due to a difference in biology. W... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-12 Children who suffer from persistent or recurring chronic pain may miss school, withdraw from social activities, and are at risk of developing internalizing symptoms such as anxiety, in response to their pain. In the first comprehensive review of chr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-12 People with a certain form of inherited（遗传的） hearing loss have increased sensitivity to low frequency vibration, according to a study by Professor Thomas Jentsch of the Leibniz-Institut fr Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)/Max Delbrck Center for M... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-12 Cancer of the liver -- rare in the United States but the third-leading cause of cancer death worldwide -- can result from environmental exposures or infections like chronic hepatitis（肝炎） , but the link is poorly understood. Now, researchers at D... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-12 The investigation of a 2009 multistate（多国的） outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), an important cause of bacterial gastrointestinal（胃肠的） illness, led to a new culprit: ready-to-bake commercial prepackaged cookie dough.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-12 From the moment they're born, babies are highly attuned to communicate and motivated to interact. And they're great listeners. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that during the first year of life, when babies spend so much time li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-12 A new, targeted approach to treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia（淋巴球性白血病） has produced durable remissions in a Phase I/II clinical trial for patients with relapsed or resistant disease, investigators report at the 53rd Annual Meeting of th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-11 Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to design antibodies aimed at combating disease. The surprisingly simple process was used to make antibodies that neutralize the harmful protein particles that lead to Alzhe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-11 A Queen's University infectious disease expert has collaborated in the development of a disinfection（消毒，杀菌） system that may change the way hospital rooms all over the world are cleaned as well as stop bed bug outbreaks in hotels and apartment... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-11 House-hunting is full of decisions, for us and honey bees. One early decision we both face is where to live. P. Kirk Visscher at the University of California, Riverside, often in collaboration with Thomas Seeley at Cornell University, NY, has long b... 阅读全文>>