日期：2011-05-30 Research from the University of Warwick shows a trip to the zoo can boost your child's science and conservation education more than books or classroom teaching alone. In research conducted at ZSL London Zoo, more than 3,000 school children aged betw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-30 Scientists from Finland and France have developed a new synchrotron（同步加速器） X-ray technique that may revolutionize the chemical analysis of rare materials like meteoric rock samples or fossils. The results have been published on 29 May 2011 in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-30 A new study from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmospheric Science scientists Chris Langdon, Remy Okazaki and Nancy Muehllehner and colleagues from the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Max-Planck Institute for Ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-29 A University of Toronto study shows that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, their brain's response can predict if they will become depressed again. Part of what makes depression such a devastating disease is the high r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-29 A new treatment that treats a subset of stroke patients by combining minimally invasive surgery, an imaging technique likened to GPS for the brain, and the clot-busting drug t-PA appears to be safe and effective, according to a multicenter clinical... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-29 The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing cures for major diseases through stem cell research today applauded（赞同，称赞） the announcement by Stanford University scientists, led by NYSCF Robertson I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-29 A team of researchers from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy (ROA) in Cdiz (Spain) has developed a method to track the movement of geostationary（与地球旋转同步的） objects using the position of the stars, which could help to monitor s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-29 With an estimated 34,000 square miles of ice, an area about the size of Maine, Alaska's multitude of glaciers have a global impact. Anthony Arendt, an assistant research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, has outl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-29 Part of what determines how much success you will have in the dating world is whether you have a good sense of whether people find you attractive. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-27 Ionizing radiation（电离辐射） is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-27 Specialised teaching for individuals with dyscalculia（计算障碍） , the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia（难语症） , should be made widely available in mainstream education, according to a review of current research published today in the journal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-27 A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid（小行星） and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE). The ASU instrument will analyze long-wave... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-27 There is water inside the moon so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within the Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 Vitamin D is important for optimal（最佳的） reproductive function in both animals and humans. It has long been known that serum（血清，浆液） vitamin D level is important for reproductive function in various animals, but now researchers from the Un... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 For decades, autism（自闭症） researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to unravel a disorder that leaves no known physical trace as it develops in the brain. Now a UCLA study is the first to reveal how the disorder makes its mark at the molecul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered（围困的） northern abalone（鲍鱼） , according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea water chemistry is negatively... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 The world's first international polypill（复方制剂） trial has shown that a four-in-one combination pill can halve（二等分） the predicted risk of heart disease and stroke. The results are published online today in the open access journal PLoS One.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 Researchers studying driving habits and accident rates among the elderly found a majority surveyed supported mandatory（强制的） retesting of drivers based on age while saying they would hand over the keys if a doctor or loved one said they were no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are often thought to be solitary behemoths（巨兽） that live and feed in the open ocean. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and colleagues, however, have found that this is not necessarily the case, finding that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 Everybody has heard about echolocation（回声定位） in bats and dolphins. These creatures emit bursts of sounds and listen to the echoes that bounce back to detect objects in their environment. What is less well known is that people can echolocate, t... 阅读全文>>