日期：2010-09-24 Across the globe, the diversity of plant and animal species generally increases from the North and South Poles towards the Equator（赤道） but surprisingly that rule isn't true for soil bacteria, according to a new study by Queen's University biolog... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 Like the little engine that could, the University of Nevada, Reno experiment to transform wastewater sludge（烂泥，泥泞） to electrical power is chugging along, dwarfed by the million-gallon tanks, pipes and pumps at the Truckee Meadows Water Reclam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 In recent decades, the rate at which humans worldwide are pumping dry the vast underground stores of water that billions depend on has more than doubled, say scientists who have conducted an unusual, global assessment（评定，估价） of groundwater us... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-21 They challenge the mountain ranges of the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas in size yet surprisingly little is known about seamounts, the vast mountains hidden under the world's oceans. Now in a special issue of Marine Ecology scientists uncover the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-21 Severe injury to the esophagus（食管，食道） can occur after a child swallows a disc battery, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of OtolaryngologyHead Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. A disc battery is an increa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-21 Clues to consumer behavior may be lurking（潜伏） our genes, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. We examine a wide range of consumer judgment and decision-making phenomenon and discover that manythough not all of themare in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-21 The emerging idea that obesity may have an infectious origin gets new support in a cross-sectional study by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers who found that children exposed to a particular strain of adenovirus（腺病... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-20 Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found. Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to rem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-20 A drug commonly used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary（肺的） disease (COPD) successfully treats adults whose asthma is not well-controlled on low doses of inhaled corticosteroids（皮质类固醇） , reported researchers supported by t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-20 Rutgers researchers have discovered how HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, resists AZT, a drug widely used to treat AIDS. The scientists, who report their findings in Nature Structural Molecular Biology, believe their discovery helps researchers und... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-20 Individuals with disrupting mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to be at substantially（实质上，大体上） increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives. Now, discoveries from an international research team led by Mayo Clinic researchers sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-19 This press relase is available in Spanish. Spoilage（损坏，糟蹋） bacteria that can cause red coloration of pickles' skin during fermentation（发酵） may actually help clean up dyes（染料） in textile industry wastewater, according to a U.S. Departm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-19 Solar energy could be a central alternative to petroleum-based energy production. However, current solar-cell technology often does not produce the same energy yield（能量输出） and is more expensive to mass-produce. In addition, information on the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-19 17 September 2010: Research at the University of Liverpool could lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses of liver damage. The team used paracetamol（扑热息痛） as the basis for the study: research indicates that paracetamol can place temporary st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-19 The lab of Kevin Foskett, PhD, the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found a possible new target for fighting cystic fibrosis ( CF囊胞性纤维症 ) that could compensate for the lack of a functi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-19 Designers of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets（小配件，小工具） that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced（微妙的） ways, mimicking the behavior of real pet anima... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 Carbon nanotubes those tiny particles poised（镇定的，平衡的） to revolutionize electronics, medicine, and other areas are much bigger in the strength department than anyone ever thought, scientists are reporting. New studies on the strength of thes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 Glaciers can help actively growing mountains become higher by protecting them from erosion, according to a University of Arizona-led research team. The finding is contrary to the conventional view of glaciers as powerful agents of erosion that carve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 Atrial fibrillation（心房颤动） is a heart disorder that affects more than two million Americans, and is considered a key contributor to blood clots（血栓） and stroke. Now researchers from North Carolina State University are developing a new comput... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio have found a gene that causes high levels of bad cholesterol（胆固醇） to accumulate in the blood as a result of a high-cholesterol diet. Researchers studied a stra... 阅读全文>>