日期：2010-09-08 Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales（变苍白） next to the fury of Jupiter's moo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-08 Rising sea levels and coastal development are threatening coastal freshwater wetlands with saltwater intrusion（侵入，闯入） . While most ecosystem restoration projects have focused on surface water and groundwater, new research finds that condition... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-08 ESA's GOCE gravity mission has recovered from a glitch（小故障，失灵） that prevented the satellite from sending its flow of scientific data to the ground. News of the recovery comes earlier than expected, thanks to the fervent（热心的，强烈的） eff... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-08 An international consortium（联合，财团） of researchers has completed the majority of the genome sequence of the domesticated（家养的，驯服的） turkey, publishing it in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology next week. In 2008, the research co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 The association between psychotic（精神病的） disorders and living in urban areas appears to be a reflection of increased social fragmentation（破碎，分裂） present within cities, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of General P... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 Insufficient amounts of nighttime sleep among infants and preschool-aged children may be a significant risk factor for developing childhood obesity, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine, one of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 Risky sexual behavior among members of a subset（子集，小团体） of the gay community is still adding to the spread of HIV. Research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has found that young white homosexual men have an import... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 Plaque（血小板，斑块） -causing bacteria can jailbreak from the mouth into the bloodstream and increase your risk of heart attack says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in Nottingham. Professor Howard Jenkinson, fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 Patients with early-stage schizophrenia（精神分裂症） who receive a combination of medication and a psychosocial（社会心理的） intervention appear less likely to discontinue treatment or relapse（复发） and may have improved insight, quality of life... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 Cockroaches（蟑螂） could be more of a health benefit than a health hazard（健康危害） according to scientists from the University of Nottingham, who have discovered powerful antibiotic properties in the brains of cockroaches and locusts. Simon Lee,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 More than one-third of mothers and about one-fifth of fathers in the United Kingdom appear to experience an episode（插曲，情节） of depression between their child's birth and 12th year of age, with the highest rates in the first year after birth, a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-07 In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin（墨西哥致幻菌素） , an hallucinogen（迷幻剂） which occurs naturally in magic mushrooms, can safely improve the moods of patients with advanced-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-06 Widespread reports of a decline in the population of bees and other flower-visiting animals have aroused fear and speculation（推测，思索） that pollination（授粉） is also likely on the decline. A recent University of Toronto study provides the fir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-06 Researchers at Queen's University have found that people with Parkinson's disease can perform automated tasks better than people without the disease, but have significant difficulty switching from easy to hard tasks. The findings are a step towards... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-06 Graphene（石墨烯，单层石墨） , a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have also led to difficulties in integrating... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-06 Uninsured minority pedestrians（行人） hit by cars are at a significantly higher risk of death than their insured white counterparts, even if the injuries sustained（维持，承受） are similar, new research from Johns Hopkins suggests. The death rate... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-06 Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a gene critical for programmed cell death is also important in the loss of adult stem cells, a finding that could help to improve the health and well-being of patients underg... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-06 Selfish bacterial cells that act in their own interests and do not cooperate with their infection-causing colleagues can actually reduce the severity of infection. The selfish behaviour of these uncooperative bacteria could be exploited to treat ant... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-03 Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company. Battlefield terrain（地形，地势） in places like Afghanis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-03 People who take oral bisphosphonates（二磷酸盐类） for bone disease over five years may be doubling their risk of developing oesophageal（食管的） cancer (cancer of the gullet食道，咽喉 ), according to a new study published on bmj.com today. Oral bi... 阅读全文>>