日期：2011-02-25 A simple home urine test（尿检） has been developed which can measure if patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are producing their own insulin. The urine test, from Professor Andrew Hattersley's Exeter-based team at the Peninsula Medical School,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-25 From the very first moments of life, hatchling（人工孵化鱼） loggerhead sea turtles have an arduous（努力的） task. They must embark on a transoceanic（横越海洋的） migration, swimming from the Florida coast eastward to the North Atlantic and then g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-25 Why, and when, do we learn to speak the way that we do? Research from North Carolina State University on African-American children presents an unexpected finding: language use can go on a roller-coaster（翻滚过山车） ride during childhood as kids ad... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-25 Researchers from Spain have identified a strain of probiotic（益生菌） bacteria that may be useful in treating ulcers（溃疡） caused by Helicobacter pylori. They report their findings in the February 2011 issue of the journal Applied and Environment... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-25 Massive waves in giant magnetic holes on the surface of the Sun have been discovered for the first time by solar scientists from the University of Sheffield and Queen's University Belfast, something that will bring experts a step closer to unlocking... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-25 Patients who suffer from Neurologic（神经病学的） Post Treatment Lyme disease (nPTLS) and those with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome report similar symptoms. However unique proteins discovered in spinal fluid can distinguish those two groups from one a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-24 Understanding the genetics of bipolar disorder（躁郁症） could lead to new treatments, but identifying specific genetic variations associated with this disorder has been challenging. A new study in Biological Psychiatry implicates a brain protein ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-24 Disasters such as floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes often result in the spread of diseases like gastroenteritis（肠胃炎） , giardiasis（贾第虫病） and even cholera（霍乱） because of an immediate shortage of clean drinking water. Now, chemistry rese... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-24 No matter their size or shape, explosive volcanoes produce tremors at similar frequencies for minutes, days or weeks before they erupt. In the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at Yale University and the University of British Columbia... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-24 In a preliminary study, researchers found that 50-minute cell phone use was associated with increased brain glucose（葡萄糖） metabolism (a marker of brain activity) in the region closest to the phone antenna（天线，触角） , but the finding is of un... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-24 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid（超流体） , a bizarre, friction（摩擦） -free state of matter, at the core of a neutron star. Superfluids created in laboratories on Earth exhibit remarkable... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-24 A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or thunder-thighs after its enormously（巨大地） powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Pol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 For centuries tansy（艾菊） has been used as a folk remedy（偏方） , but now scientists from Britain and Spain believe the plant may have medical benefits after all, as a treatment for herpes（疱疹） . The team's findings, published in Phytotherapy... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 Several factors may be associated with hearing impairment in middle-aged adults, including cardiovascular disease risks, being male and having a noisy job, according to a report published online first in the Archives of OtolaryngologyHead Neck Surge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 In an advance that could improve battlefield and trauma care, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have used tiny particles called nanoparticles to improve survival after life-threatening blood loss. Nanoparticles... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 New nanomaterials research from the University at Buffalo could lead to new solutions for an age-old public health problem: how to separate bacteria from drinking water. To the naked eye, both water molecules and germs are invisible -- objects so ti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 A study led by the University of Michigan Cardiovascular（心血管的） Center shows being a woman may not increase your risk of dying from treatment for a severe heart attack. U-M researchers and colleagues in the Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 If asked whether we'd steal, most of us would say no. Would we try to save a drowning person? That dependsperhaps on our fear of big waves. Much research has explored the ways we make moral（道德的） decisions. But in the clinch, when the opportunit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 Rany Shamloul's recent review of the medical literature（医学文献） on cannabis（大麻） use and sexual health has revealed that cannabis use may negatively impact male sexual performance. Cannabis is the most widely-used illicit（违法的） drug globa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-23 An international scientific team has shown that strong links between the corals reefs（礁石） of the south China sea, West Pacific and Coral Triangle hold the key to preserving fish and marine resources in the Asia-Pacific region. Research by Dr Joh... 阅读全文>>