日期：2010-09-16 Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That's what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others' emotions and finds that Dutch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 The millions of middle-aged and older adults who suffer from insomnia have a new drug-free prescription（药方，指示） for a more restful night's sleep. Regular aerobic exercise（有氧运动） improves the quality of sleep, mood and vitality, according... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 Hurricane Julia intensified rapidly overnight and is now a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale and NASA's Aqua, Terra and TRMM satellites captured clues as they passed over her from space. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ( TRMM... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 Air Force Office of Scientific Research- sponsored（赞助，发起） researcher, Dr. Robert Wood of Harvard University is leading the way in what could become the next phase of high-performance micro air vehicles for the Air Force. His basic research is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-16 Hurricane Igor is a monster hurricane in terms of strength and size. To get a perspective on its size, it is the same distance from one end of the storm to the other as it is from Boston, Mass. to Richmond, Va., some 550 miles. That's a 10-hour driv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 New research from North Carolina State University will help medical examiners（验尸员，体检医生） and others identify human remains of those killed during the recent earthquake in Chile, as well as the bodies of the disappeared who were killed durin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 Did I turn off the stove, or did I just imagine it? Memory isn't always reliable. Psychological（心理学的） scientists have discovered all sorts of ways that false memories get created, and now there's another one for the list: watching someone else... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 Seamless（无缝的，无伤痕的） fabric that can be sprayed on to skin and other surfaces to make clothes, medical bandages and even upholstery（饰面材料） will be demonstrated this Thursday, in advance of the Science in Style spray-on fashion show next... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 An international team of researchers has identified a risk gene for schizophrenia（精神分裂症） , including a potentially causative mutation（突变，变化） , using genome-wide association data-mining techniques and independent replications. The resul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 The research, unveiled at a press conference today (14 September 2010), shows that the watercress（豆瓣菜，西洋菜） compound is able to interfere with the function of a protein which plays a critical role in cancer development. As tumours develop th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 Women tend to believe the scientific consensus（一致，合意） on global warming more than men, according to a study by a Michigan State University researcher. The findings, published in the September issue of the journal Population and Environment, c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 Leading international marine scientists are proposing radical changes in the governance of the world's oceans to rescue them from overfishing, pollution and other human impacts. Based on a successful experiment in Chile, the researchers say a new ap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 NEW YORK ( Embargoed禁止，限制 until September 14, 2010: 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time) A new peer-reviewed paper by the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups reveals an ominous（不吉利的） finding: most of the world's last remaining tigerslo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-15 People who play action video games are known for their fast reaction times compared to those who don't play the games. And it isn't that they are just trigger happy（好战的） , according to researchers who report their findings in the September 14th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-14 Sexual conflict is not only a human phenomenon. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have shown that females of the rough periwinkle（玉黍螺） conceal their gender identity in order to avoid excessive copulation（交配，交尾 ） . The females of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-14 Tropical Depression 12 was born in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean yesterday, Sept. 12 and two NASA satellites saw factors that indicated she would later strengthen into Tropical Storm Julia. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed stron... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-14 The first genetic study to compare nuclear DNA of endangered Antillean manatees（海牛） in Belize with Florida manatees confirmed their designation as separate subspecies（亚种） . Belize's manatees, however, were found to have extremely low genetic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-14 A team of Welsh scientists have successfully cloned a human virus offering new hope for the treatment of potentially life-threatening diseases. Human cytomegalovirus（巨细胞病毒） (HCMV) is a major infectious cause of congenital malformations（先天... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-14 Earthy or musty（发霉的，落伍的） odors（气味，名声） , along with visual evidence of blue-green algae（海藻） , also known as cyanobacteria（蓝藻细菌） , may serve as a warning that harmful cyanotoxins are present in lakes or reservoirs. In a newly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-12 Videoconferences（可视会议） may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill's Department of Anesthesia（麻醉） achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patients undergo... 阅读全文>>