日期：2010-11-23 Current state-of-the-art global climate models predict substantial（大量的，实质的） warming in response to increases in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. The models, though, disagree widely in the magnitude of the warming we can expect. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-23 Binghamton University researchers recently revived（复活，再生） ancient bacteria trapped for thousands of years in water droplets（水滴） embedded（嵌入，固定） in salt crystals. For decades, geologists（地质学家） have looked at these water drople... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-23 An international group of scientists, including researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC), has discovered 30 genes that control the age at which girls reach sexual maturity. They found that many of the genes responsible for puberty（青春期，... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-23 Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it the universe would be devoid of（缺乏） stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable（不可缺少的） ingredient for making stars and for understanding how primor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-22 Children with Chronic Kidney Disease ( CKD慢性肾脏病 ) are more likely to have mothers who were obese or had diabetes（糖尿病） during pregnancy, according to a study presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 43rd Annual Meeting and Scientif... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-22 As debilitating（衰弱的） as disease can be, sometimes it acts as a teacher. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have found that by mimicking a rare genetic disorder in a dish, they can rewind the internal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-22 Airplanes do not look much like birds -- unless you were to imagine a really weird（怪异的） bird or a very strange plane -- but should they? This question is exactly what a pair of engineers in California and South Africa inadvertently（非故意地）... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-22 Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions the main contributor to global warming show no sign of abating（减少，缓和） and may reach record levels in 2010, according to a study led by the University of Exeter (UK). The study, which also involved the Uni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-19 We were able to show that the benefit of social bonding accrues（获得，积累） through 'the manipulation of ones' own and others' social relationships,' which is one definition of politics, said Oliver Schlke of Georg August University Gttingen in Ge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-19 Dr. Rohan Walvekar, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology（耳鼻喉科学） Head and Neck Surgery, Director of Clinical Research and the Salivary（唾液的） Endoscopy（内窥镜检查） Service at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has reported the first... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-19 A potent（有效的，强有力的） anti-tumor gene introduced into mice with metastatic（转移性的，变形的） melanoma（黑素瘤，胎记瘤） has resulted in permanent immune reconfiguration and produced a complete remission（缓解，豁免） of their cancer, accord... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-19 Taking time off from certain osteoporosis（骨质疏松症） drugs may be beneficial to bone health, according to a study conducted at Loyola University Health System. Researchers found that bone density remained stable for three years in patients who to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-19 Geneva, 17 November 2011. The ALPHA experiment at CERN has taken an important step forward in developing techniques to understand one of the Universe's open questions: is there a difference between matter and antimatter? In a paper published in Natu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-19 Months of volcanic restlessness（不安定） preceded（在前面） the eruptions this spring of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajkull, providing insight into what roused（唤醒） it from its centuries of slumber（睡眠） . An international team of researchers a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-19 Over the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none outside our Milky Way has been confirmed. Now, however, a planet with a minimum mass 1.25 times that of Jupiter has been discov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-18 Scientists are reporting a key advance toward development of a way to combat the terrible plant diseases that caused the Irish potato famine（饥荒，饥饿） and still inflict（造成，遭受） billions of dollars of damage to crops each year around the wo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-18 Energy drinks are commonly consumed by teens and college students A new study shows that energy drink consumption is strongly associated with increased risks for heavy drinking and alcohol dependence These results call for more scrutiny（监视） rega... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-18 There is considerable amount of uncertainty concerning the environmental impacts that animal hormones have on surface water. Higher concentrations of hormones in waterways have been found to cause physiological and sexual impairment（损伤） in fish... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-18 When cardiac（心脏的） or skeletal muscle is not receiving enough oxygen to meet metabolic（新陈代谢的） demands, a person will experience pain, such as angina（心绞痛） , chest pain during a heart attack, or leg pain during a vigorous sprint（冲刺... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-17 University of Alberta research has discovered a strong link between depression and risky sexual behaviours such as improper condom use, transactional sex and relationship violence among young people in South Africa. The research shows that depressio... 阅读全文>>