日期：2010-10-07 The Sun's activity has recently affected the Earth's atmosphere and climate in unexpected ways, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. The study, by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Colorado, sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-07 In recent decades documented biological changes in the far Northern Hemisphere have been attributed to global warming, changes from species extinctions to shifting geographic ranges. Such changes were expected because warming has been fastest in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-07 A first-of-its-kind study that tracked the oceanic migrations of adult Atlantic sturgeon（鲟鱼） that were caught and tagged in the Hudson River discovered that these fish move vast distances in the Atlantic Ocean, traveling as far south as Georgia... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-07 A University of Delaware researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic（机器人学） space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun. William Matthaeus, professor of physics and astronomy at UD, is involved in NASA's Solar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 Freshwater is flowing into Earth's oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms linked to global warming. All told, 18 percent more water fed into the world's oceans from rivers an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 Spanish and Scottish researchers have added wool fibres to the clay material used to make bricks and combined these with an alginate（藻朊酸盐） , a natural polymer（聚合物） extracted from seaweed. The result is bricks that are stronger and more en... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 Therapeutic antibodies can be an efficient alternative when common drugs do not work anymore. However, antibodies obtained from blood of animals such as mice could not be used: The human immune system recognizes them as foreign and rejects them. In... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 A balloon angioplasty（气囊血管成形术） device that sucks up dangerous plaque（血小板） debris could trigger a paradigm shift（典范转移） in how physicians treat peripheral（外围的，次要的） artery disease, researchers write in the current issue of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 Physicists and neuroscientists（神经系统科学家） from the University of Pennsylvania have linked the cell structure of the retina（视网膜） to the light and dark contrasts of the natural world, demonstrating the likelihood that the neural pathways h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 With over 500 million users worldwide, Facebook has become a global phenomenon, a vast cyber neighborhood where friends meet to share photos, news and gossip. But when those relationships sour（变酸，失望） , another phenomenon often occurs unfriend... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 Evidence reported in the October issue of Cell Metabolism（新陈代谢） , a Cell Press publication, offers a completely new explanation for why people with diabetes account for more than half of all patients requiring dialysis（透析） or kidney transp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 Chemists at Vanderbilt University have created a new class of liquid crystals with unique electrical properties that could improve the performance of digital displays used on everything from digital watches to flat panel televisions. The achievement... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-06 After a decade of joint work involving 2,700 researchers from 80 countries, the world's scientists as well as the general public can now access the Census of Marine Life, which provides the first in-depth look at the more than 120,000 diverse（不同... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-05 Having survived for more than 400 million years, the horseshoe crab（鲎） is now under threat primarily due to overharvest and habitat destruction. However, climatic changes may also play a role. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg reveal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-05 Children diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD注意力不集中症 ) at ages 4 to 6 are more likely to suffer from depression as adolescents than those who did not have ADHD at that age, according to a long-term study published in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-05 The roots of cassava（木薯） ( Manihot esculenta花叶木薯 ) serve as the primary source of carbohydrates（糖类，碳水化合物） in the diets of people in many arid regions（干旱地区） of the world, including more than 250 million people in sub-Saharan A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-05 Supercomputer simulations（模拟，仿真） at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists unravel（解决） how nucleic acids（核酸 ） could have contributed to the origins of life. A research team led by Jeremy Smith,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-04 Scientists have identified a way that the United States could immediately save the energy equivalent（等价的，相等的） of about 350 million barrels of oil a year without spending a penny or putting a ding in the quality of life: Just stop wasting fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-04 People with a history of cancer have a 40 percent greater likelihood（可能性） of experiencing memory problems that interfere with（干扰，妨碍） daily functioning, compared with those who have not had cancer, according to results of a new, large stu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-04 Our ideal image of the perfect partner differs greatly from our real-life partner, according to new research from the University of Sheffield and the University of Montpellier in France. The research found that our actual partners are of a different... 阅读全文>>