日期：2010-11-03 Canadians who work night and rotating shifts（轮流换班） are almost twice as likely to be injured on the job than those working regular day shifts, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia. The study, published in th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-02 Along with energy conservation and storm-water reduction, scientists may soon be adding crime-fighting to the list of benefits that urban trees provide. Researchers with the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest (PNW) and Southern Research Station... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-02 The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is calling for any athlete who is suspected of having a concussion（冲击，震荡） to be removed from play until the athlete is evaluated by a physician with training in the evaluation and management of sports c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-02 Full-term babies are born with a key collection of networks already formed in their brains, according to new research that challenges some previous theories about the brain's activity and how the brain develops. The study is published today in the j... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 Dramatic flares and bursts of energy - activity previously thought reserved for only the strongest magnetized pulsars（脉冲星） - has been observed emanating from（放射，发源于） a weakly magnetised, slowly rotating pulsar. The international team of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 In a study of mice with lymphoma（淋巴瘤） , MIT biologists have discovered that a small number of cancer cells escape chemotherapy（化学疗法） by hiding out in the thymus（胸腺） , an organ where immune cells mature. Within the thymus, the cancer c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 Extra- virgin olive oil（初榨橄榄油） can protect the liver from oxidative（氧化的） stress. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism exposed rats to a moderately toxic herbicide known to deplete antioxida... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 Researchers at the University of Bristol reveal today in the journal Nature that they have developed a seismological（地震学上的） 'speed gun' for the inside of the Earth. Using this technique they will be able to measure the way the Earth's deep in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 A new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Norwegian researchers has found that women with anorexia nervosa（神经性厌食） are much more likely to have both unplanned pregnancies and induced（感应的，诱发型） abortions than women... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 Researchers led by Vanderbilt's Roger Cone, Ph.D., have discovered a new member of a gene family that has powerful influences on pigmentation（色素淀积） and the regulation of body weight. The gene is the third member of the agouti（刺鼠） family. T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 Curcumin（姜黄素） , a chemical that gives curry（咖喱） its zing（活力，生命力） , holds promise in preventing or treating liver damage from an advanced form of a condition known as fatty liver disease, new Saint Louis University research suggests.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-01 Scientists from the UK and Australia have seen the human immune system's assassin a protein called perforin（穿孔素） in action for the first time. The UK team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Wel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-31 An international team of Mycologists（霉菌学家） and Ecologists（生态学家） studying Atlantic sea turtles at Cape Verde have discovered that the species is under threat from a fungal infection which targets eggs. The research, published in FEMS Micr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-31 Scientists of the Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of MDC and Charit in Berlin-Buch have gained new insights into the development of epithelial cells（上皮细胞） and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-31 Nearly one in four stars like the sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars. UC Berkeley astronomers Andrew Howard and Geoffrey Marcy chose 166 G and K stars within 80 ligh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-31 The change in the ice mass covering Antarctica is a critical factor in global climate events. Scientists at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have now found that the year by year mass variations in the western Antarctic are mainly attri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-31 Few fish are famed for their parenting skills. Most species leave their freshly hatched fry（鱼苗） to fend for themselves, but not discus fish（七彩神仙鱼） . Jonathan Buckley from the University of Plymouth, UK, explains that discus fish young fee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-31 Women with dense breasts and no lobular（小叶的，小裂片的） involution（退化，纠缠） were at a higher risk for developing breast cancer than those with non-dense breasts and complete involution, according to a study published online in The Journal o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-31 Saving a soldier's life takes precedence over（优先于） treating traumatic urologic（泌尿道的） injuries on the battlefield, a Medical College of Georgia researcher says. Injuries to the bladder（膀胱） , ureters（输尿管） , kidneys and external gen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-30 Two University of Florida researchers and their international colleagues have used mathematical models（数学模型） and maps to estimate the feasibility of eliminating malaria（疟疾） from countries that have the deadliest form of the disease. Andrew... 阅读全文>>