日期：2011-08-16 A global study by an international team including professor John Graves of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has found that several species of tunas（金枪鱼） and billfishes（长嘴鱼） are threatened and in need of further protection. The team... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-16 Regular exercise could help prevent brain damage associated with neurodegenerative（神经变性的） diseases like Alzheimer's, according to research published this month in Elsevier's journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Exercise allows the brain to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-15 Researchers have developed a new candidate vaccine to protect against chikungunya virus（基孔肯亚病毒） , a mosquito-borne pathogen that produces an intensely painful and often chronic arthritic disease that has stricken millions of people in India,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-15 The mystery of how a butterfly has changed its wing patterns to mimic neighbouring species and avoid being eaten by birds has been solved by a team of European scientists. The study is published August 14, 2011 in the journal Nature. The greatest ev... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-15 Analyses of the metabolic profile of blood serum（血清） have revealed significant differences in metabolites between men and women. In a study to be published on August 11 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, scientists at the Helmholtz Zentru... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 In both chimpanzees（黑猩猩） and humans, portions of the brain that are critical for complex cognitive functions, including decision-making, self-awareness and creativity, are immature at birth. But there are important differences, too. Baby chimpa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 A new study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine reveals that the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks affected the health of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) resulting in more post-9/11 retirements than expected. Led by Davi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common -- but preventable -- complication after surgery that can lead to other complications or even death. The use and development of biomarkers will help physicians diagnose and treat acute kidney injury. Three prote... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 Eating a diet rich in spices, like turmeric（姜黄） and cinnamon（肉桂） , reduces the body's negative responses to eating high-fat meals, according to Penn State researchers. Normally, when you eat a high-fat meal, you end up with high levels of tr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 Cancer patients may benefit from sessions with trained music therapists or from listening to music. A new Cochrane systematic review shows using music can reduce anxiety in cancer patients, and may also have positive effects on mood, pain and qualit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 Genetically engineered spider silk could help overcome a major barrier to the use of gene therapy in everyday medicine, according to a new study that reported development and successful initial laboratory tests of such a material. It appears in ACS'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 The recycling of Earth's crust（外壳） in volcanoes happens much faster than scientists have previously assumed. Rock of the oceanic crust, which sinks deep into the earth due to the movement of tectonic plates（构造板块） , reemerges through volcan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-10 As a noninvasive method of determining the sex of a fetus, tests using cell-free fetal DNA obtained from the mother's blood after 7 weeks gestation（酝酿，怀孕） performed well, while urine-based tests appear to be unreliable, according to a review... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-10 Stem cell researchers at UCLA have uncovered for the first time why adult human cardiac myocytes（肌细胞） have lost their ability to proliferate, perhaps explaining why the human heart has little regenerative capacity. The study, done in cell lines... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-10 A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age. In the study, CU-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-10 Life is tough for woodrats in deserts of the U.S. Southwest. There are few plants for food, and those plants produce poison to deter rodents（啮齿动物） , insects and other animals. A new University of Utah study shows how certain woodrats put thems... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 It's pretty much a given that the more educated someone becomes, the more likely they are to question their religious beliefs, stop going to church and even abandon their faith entirely. Or is it? A new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study challenge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 Two new studies have found that smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after they wake up in the morning may have a higher risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers than smokers who refrain from（克制，抑制） lighting up right a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-09 We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others? It seems we do, at least according to the results of a study by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-05 A paper co-authored by William Phillip of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Menachem Elimelech, Robert Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Yale University, appearing in... 阅读全文>>