日期：2011-11-07 Can the nerve signaling inhibitor tomosyn help retain long-term memory? A new study by two University of Illinois at Chicago biologists points to the link. Findings by Janet Richmond and David Featherstone, both professors of biological sciences at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-07 A new minute freshwater snail species belonging to the genus Daphniola was found by a researcher from University of Athens (Canella Radea) in a spring covered by snow on Mt. Parnassos, central Greece. This study was published in the open access jour... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-07 Solar power may be on the rise, but solar cells are only as efficient as the amount of sunlight they collect. Under the direction of a new McCormick professor, researchers have developed a new material that absorbs a wide range of wavelengths and co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-06 A piece of jawbone excavated from a prehistoric（史前的） cave in England is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Europe, according to an international team of scientists. The bone first was believed to be about 35,000 years old, but the new r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-06 Disco Science is better than no music at all at helping to deliver the required number of chest compressions ( CPR心肺复苏术 ) to save a heart attack victim's life before s/he gets to hospital, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-06 A woman goes into labor, and gives birth. The newborn is swaddled（用襁褓包） and placed to sleep in a nearby bassinet, or taken to the hospital nursery so that the mother can rest. Despite this common practice, new research published in Biological... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-06 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects about 1 in 100 children resulting in a range of problems in language, communication and understanding other people's emotional cues, all of which can lead to difficulties in social situations. Boys are three to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-06 Commercial weight loss programmes are more effective and cheaper than primary care based services led by specially trained staff, finds a study published on bmj.com. Almost a quarter of the population of England are now classified as obese. Good evi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-04 New research from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University shows there is substantial variation in the first-time divorce rate when it is broken down by race and education. But, there is also evi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-04 North Carolina State University researchers have uncovered evidence that evolutionary breakpoints on canine（犬的） chromosomes are also associated with canine cancer. Mapping these fragile regions in dogs may also have implications for the discover... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-04 In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomers have hunted for radio signals and ultra-short laser pulses. In a new paper, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Edwin Turner (Princeton University) suggest a new tec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-02 In this month's edition of Physics World, Paul Blom and Ton van Mol from the Holst Centre in Eindhoven describe a way of creating thin, flexible sheets of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using a cheap, newspaper-style roll-to-roll printing pro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-02 Patients who have received a solid organ transplant, such as kidney, liver, heart or lung, have an overall cancer risk that is double that of the general population, with an increased risk for many different types of malignancies（恶性肿瘤） , accor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-02 People who participate in online communities are more likely to make risky financial decisions, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University, the University of British Columbia and the University of Zurich. The study, Does Online Com... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-02 Patients with recent use of aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDS非甾体抗炎药 ), or anti-clotting drugs such as clopidogreal (Plavix) do not appear to have an increased risk of bleeding during or after removal of precancerous（癌症... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-02 Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the Nov. 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-01 Just one drink per day for women -- two for men -- could lead to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth ( SIBO小肠细菌过度生长 ) and subsequently cause gastrointestinal（胃肠的） symptoms like bloating, gas, abdominal pain, constipation（便秘） and d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-01 Misshapen（畸形的，丑恶的） red blood cells (RBCs) are a sign of serious illnesses, such as malaria and sickle cell anemia. Until recently, the only way to assess whether a person's RBCs were the correct shape was to look at them individually under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-01 Graft-versus-host disease ( GVHD移植物抗宿主病 ) is a serious risk in many kinds of cell transplants, including for stem cell transplants carried out when stem cells are partially depleted of conventional T cells, which play an important role in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-01 A vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto（对纠缠不休） specific other bacteria -- including certain human pathogens -- has the potential to serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases, a new study indicates. The bacterium, Micav... 阅读全文>>