日期：2011-10-03 Leptothorax acervorum ants live all over the Northern hemisphere, but their reproductive strategy depends on habitat. Colonies are polygynous（一夫多妻的） (more than one queen) in the forest of Siberia and central Europe, but functionally monogynou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-03 Antibiotic resistant E. coli was much more prevalent in villages situated（位于） along roads than in rural villages located away from roads, which suggests that roads play a major role in the spread or containment（包含，牵制） of antibiotic resist... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-03 Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you're right, said Henry Ford. A new study, to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who think they can l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-03 The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological（宇宙论的） simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new tool for understanding such cosmic mysteries as galaxy formation, dark matter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 Smartphones may be the new hot tool in cognitive psychology（认知心理学） research, according to a paper in the online journal PLoS ONE. Cognitive psychology, which explores how people perceive, think, remember, and more, often relies on testing vol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 At first glance, a weather forecaster for Venus would have either a really easy or a really boring job, depending on your point of view. The climate on Venus is widely known to be unpleasant -- at the surface, the planet roasts at more than 800 degr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 Oxaliplatin, a platinum-based anticancer drug that's made enormous headway（前进，进步） in recent years against colorectal（结肠直肠的） cancer, appears to cause nerve damage that may be permanent and worsens even months after treatment ends. The c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have identified a new pathway of stem cell activity in the brain that represents potential targets of brain injuries affecting newborns. The recent study, which... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 As anyone familiar with the phrase 'man-flu' will know women consider themselves to be the more robust side of the species when it comes to health and illness. Now new research, published in BioEssays, seems to support the idea. The research focuses... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, Ph.D, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and David Stark, an MD/Ph.D student working in his lab, have discovered how a key chemical neurotransmitter（... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 The way in which global warming causes many of the world's organisms to shrink has been revealed by new research from Queen Mary, University of London. Almost all cold-blooded organisms are affected by a phenomenon known as the 'temperature-size rul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 A commonly used supplement（补充，附录） is likely to improve outcomes and recovery for individuals who sustain a spinal cord injury (SCI), according to research conducted by University of Kentucky neuroscientists. Sasha Rabchevsky, associate profes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-29 All observations in astronomy（天文学） are based on light emitted from stars and galaxies and, according to the general theory of relativity, the light will be affected by gravity. At the same time all interpretations in astronomy are based on the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to inhibit the growth of brain tumours by treating the common Cytomegalovirus ( CMV巨细胞病毒 ). The virus, which is found in a wide range of tum... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 Emissions from livestock farms cause asthma（哮喘） and COPD patients living nearby to experience more exacerbations（发作，恶化） , according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Amsterdam. Also, chances of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 New online research led by the University of Leicester reveals that over 200,000 people living in Britain may have fallen victim to online romance scams（诈骗） -- far more than had been previously estimated. The study is believed to be the first fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 Six-month-old babies are severely limited in what they can remember about the objects they see in the world; if you hide several objects from an infant, they will only remember one of those objects with any detail. But a new study, which will be pub... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-27 A new study shows that 145,000 deaths could be averted in the next 30 years in the Netherlands by implementing stronger tobacco control policies. This set of policies, as recommended by the MPOWER report of the World Health Organisation, consists of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-27 A research team led by LSU Associate Professors of Biological Sciences Fernando Galvez and Andrew Whitehead has published the results of a combined field and laboratory study showing the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on fish living in L... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-27 New research presented at the European Society for Paediatric（儿科的） Endocrinology（内分泌学） meeting has found a genetic region that may control testicle development in the fetus. Men have XY sex chromosomes, and the development of testes is th... 阅读全文>>