日期：2010-12-08 You've seen it in movies: the human-like, robot assassin（刺客） quickly regenerates its structure after being damaged beyond recognition. This Terminator scenario is becoming less far-fetched as recent advances in structural health monitoring syste... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-08 Second-hand smoke increases risk of invasive meningococcal（脑膜炎球菌的） disease in children. Children exposed to second-hand smoke are more likely to get invasive meningococcal disease than children who are not exposed, reports a study from Chien... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-08 Los Angeles, CA (December 7, 2010) Most people feel chills（寒战） and shivers（颤抖） in response to music that thrills them, but some people feel these chills often and others feel them hardly at all. People who are particularly open to new experi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-08 Use of low-dose aspirin prior to a newer type of fecal（排泄物的，残渣的） occult blood（潜隐血） test is associated with a higher sensitivity for detecting advanced colorectal（结肠直肠的） tumors, compared to no aspirin use, according to a study i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 WHAT: The costly, time-consuming process of making, distributing and administering millions of seasonal flu vaccines would become obsolete（废弃的，老式的） if researchers could design a vaccine that confers decades-long protection from any flu viru... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 What: Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have discovered how catheter（导管） -related bacterial infection develops and disseminates to become a potentially life-threatening condition. The study, which included research on Staphylococ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 Personality is not just a feature unique to humans and pets. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) have revealed that also brown trout（褐鲑鱼） have individual characters and show different personalities. Researcher Bart Adriaenssens... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 With new tools that can grab individual strands of DNA and stretch them like rubber bands, Rice University scientists are working to unravel（解开，阐明） a mystery of modern genomics（基因组学） . Their latest findings, which appear in Physical Rev... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 A brand-new bacterial species has been found aboard the RMS Titanic, which is contributing to its deterioration（恶化，退化） . The discovery reveals a potential new microbial threat to the exterior of ships and underwater metal structures such as o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 Foreign pests are eating their way through our national forests, destroying majestic（庄严的，宏伟的） scenery and costing taxpayers millions of dollars. If enforcement efforts to prevent their importation aren't stepped up, irreplaceable（不能替代... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 Scientists from South Korea, the United States and Japan analyzed fossil evidence found in South Korea and published research describing a new horned dinosaur. The newly identified genus（类，种，属） , Koreaceratops hwaseongensis, lived about 103 m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-06 University of Illinois at Chicago researcher Dr. John Quigley will describe a promising new approach to blocking malaria（疟疾） transmission during the American Society of Hematology（血液学） 's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Quigley will speak a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-06 Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study to be published in Nature Geosciences this week. This is the first study to reveal that fi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-06 Sugar molecules coat every cell in our bodies and play critical roles in development and disease, yet the components of these glycans（聚糖，多糖） have been difficult for scientists to study, because of their complexity. Researchers at Emory Univer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-06 Damage caused by multiple sclerosis（多发性硬化） could be reversed by activating stem cells that can repair injury in the central nervous system, a study has shown. Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh have identified a mech... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-03 Many brain imaging studies have reported that tobacco smoking is associated with large-scale and wide-spread structural brain abnormalities（畸形，异常） . The cerebral cortex（大脑皮层） is a specific area of the brain responsible for many importan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-03 A novel type of biomedical imaging, made possible by new advances in microscopy from scientists at Harvard University, is so fast and sensitive it can capture video of blood cells squeezing through（挤过，勉强通过） capillaries（毛细血管） . Researc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-03 There has been controversy about whether life originated in a hot or cold environment, and about whether enough time has elapsed（消逝） for life to have evolved to its present complexity. But new research at the University of North Carolina at Chap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-03 Perhaps you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but scientists are reporting progress in pulling off the same trick with the notoriously bland（乏味的，温和的） flavor of pork. They are reporting new insights into the biochemical differences... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-03 Scientists from The University of Manchester say a naturally occurring chemical found in soy（大豆，酱油） could prove to be an effective new treatment for a fatal genetic disease that affects children. Dr Brian Bigger, from the University's MPS Ste... 阅读全文>>