日期：2011-07-06 Eating a diet high in vitamin D, as well as the nutrients betaine（甜菜碱） and methionine（蛋氨酸） , might help reduce the risk of macular degeneration, according to new research conducted by Tufts Medical Center scientists. Their study of identic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-06 High epidermal growth factor receptor ( EGFR表皮生长因子受体 ) expression was a good predictor of which lung cancer patients would survive longer when cetuximab (Erbitux) was added to first-line chemotherapy, according to research presented at the 1... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-06 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey（冒险旅程） of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-04 A study published by the University of Reading's Centre for Agri Environmental Research suggests that honeybees may not be as important to pollination（授粉） services in the UK than previously supposed. The research was published in the Journal Agr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-04 Scientists have shown for the first time that the loudest animal on earth, relative to its body size, is the tiny water boatman（划蝽） , Micronecta scholtzi. At 99.2 decibels, this represents the equivalent of listening to an orchestra（乐队） play... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-04 Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered a new way of detecting zinc in zebra fish, that could pave the way for furthering our understanding of diseases like type 2 diabetes, prostate cancer and Alzheimer's. The results will... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-04 New research has shown that feral（野生的，凶猛的） , untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes. Researchers, who will be presenting their work at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conferen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 Researchers have found that areas near commercial airports sometimes experience a small but measurable increase in rain and snow when aircraft take off and land under certain atmospheric conditions（通风条件） . The new study led by the National Cen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 Many animals have eyes that are incredibly complex others manage without. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have shown that sea urchins（海胆） see with their entire body despite having no eyes at all. The study has been published in the s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that there is a significant risk of serious skin cancers, including cutaneous（皮肤的） squamous cell carcinoma（鳞状细胞癌） and melanoma（黑素瘤） , in heart transplant patie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 How easy is it to falsify（伪造，篡改） memory? New research at the Weizmann Institute shows that a bit of social pressure may be all that is needed. The study, which appears Friday in Science, reveals a unique pattern of brain activity when false m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 Young babies' brains are already specially attuned to（习惯于） the sounds of human voices and emotions, according to a report published online on June 30 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Three- to seven-month-old infants showed more ac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 Agroforestry（农林学） , the deliberate placement of trees into crop and livestock（牲畜） operations, can help capture substantial amounts of carbon on agricultural lands while providing production and conservation benefits. However, we currently l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 Higher temperatures could significantly impact California and other premium winegrowing regions of the United States in the next 30 years, according to a new study led by Stanford University climate scientists. Writing in the June 30 edition of Envi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 A sizzling（极热的） genetic discovery by Chinese scientists may one day allow pig tissue to be transplanted successfully into humans. Their research presented in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology (http://www.jleukbio.org) represents a major step for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 A new study shows that differences in the vulnerability（弱点） of animals to a virus are crucial to understanding patterns of infection, and that variation in susceptibility to two marginally different viruses increases the number of infections whe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-01 As strange as it sounds, a new research study published in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), suggests that the healthy ingredient（原料，要素） in red wine, resveratrol（白藜芦醇） , may prevent the negative effects that spaceflight and sed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-30 Researchers looked at changes in the behaviour of bluetongue（蓝舌病） a viral disease of cattle and sheep - from the 1960s to the present day, as well as what could happen to the transmission of the virus 40 years into the future. They found, for t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-30 The first of two ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun) spacecraft is now in its lunar orbit. On June 22, ARTEMIS P1 began firing its thrusters（推进器） to move out of its kidney-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-30 A new treatment option may soon be available for children with neuroblastoma（成神经细胞瘤） according to research published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The study tested the principle that combined positron emission（正电子... 阅读全文>>