日期：2016-02-03 New tools for harvesting wind energy may soon look less like giant windmills and more like tiny leafless trees. A project at The Ohio State University is testing whether high-tech objects that look a bit like artificial trees can generate renewable... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-03 When an endangered orca is in hot pursuit of an endangered salmon, sending out clicks and listening for their echoes in the murky ocean near Seattle, does the noise from the nearby shipping lane interfere with them catching dinner? To find out scien... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-31 A ground-breaking study has confirmed the long held assumption that camouflage protects animals from the clutches of predators, and offers insights into the most important aspects of camouflage. The research, by scientists from the Universities of E... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-31 Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can lift weights, contracting and expanding the way muscles do. These functions require poly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-31 A James Cook University researcher has found more than three quarters of Australians regard the Great Barrier Reef as part of their national identity and nearly 90 per cent believe it is under threat from climate change. JCU's Jeremy Goldberg commis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-31 European scientists have gathered tiny fungi that take shelter in Antarctic rocks and sent them to the International Space Station. After 18 months on board in conditions similar to those on Mars, more than 60% of their cells remained intact, with s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-31 Researchers have successfully demonstrated how it is possible to interface graphene - a two-dimensional form of carbon - with neurons, or nerve cells, while maintaining the integrity of these vital cells. The work may be used to build graphene-based... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-31 Researchers of SECORE International (USA, Germany), the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the Carmabi Marine Research Station (Curaao) have for the first time successfully raised laboratory-bred colonies of a threatened Caribbean coral speci... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-31 Ancient extinction of giant Australian bird points to humans The first direct evidence that humans played a substantial role in the extinction of the huge, wondrous beasts inhabiting Australia some 50,000 years ago -- in this case a 500-pound bird -... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-29 Researchers report the catalysis of a highly specific chemical reaction where oxygen from the air is one ingredient and the other, an organic molecule, is selectively oxidised. A simple manganese compound catalyses this reaction. This type of method... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-29 A new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology is the first to report that bed bugs have developed resistance to a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, the shortened name. Neonics are the most widely used group of i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-29 Octopuses have generally been viewed as solitary creatures--and their color-changing abilities primarily as a means to hide from hungry predators. But, after binge watching more than 52 hours of octopus TV, researchers reporting in the Cell Press jo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-27 For those living with the threat to life and property from wildfires, Colorado State University scientists have some more bad news: Wildfire smoke seems to elevate levels of ozone, a nasty air pollutant with proven adverse health effects. The influe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-27 In October 2015, a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Universidad de Sucre in Colombia ran the first tests confirming the presence of Zika virus transmission in the South American country. In a study published today [Jan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-27 Energy harvesting is emerging as a viable method for electronic devices to pull ambient energy from their surrounding environment and convert it into electrical energy for stored power. This coveted technology has the potential to serve as an altern... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-23 Those who find themselves easily distracted at work may be intellectually superior to their colleagues, according to research. 研究发现，在工作中易被分散注意力的人可能比他们的同事智商更高。 Intelligent workers may have difficulty concentrating due t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-23 Happiness is in your genes it seems, according to research that shows the more people in a country who have a particularly gene, the happier the nation will be. 一项研究发现可能存在幸福基因，国家的居民拥有的这种特殊基因越多，他们就会越幸福。 The DNA... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-21 Deserts are often thought of as barren places that are left exposed to the extremes of heat and cold and where not much is afoot. But that view is being altered as new research keeps revealing the intricate ecological dynamics of deserts as they cha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-21 A new species of bird has been discovered in northeastern India and adjacent parts of China by a team of scientists from Sweden, China, the U.S., India and Russia. The bird, described in the current issue of the journal Avian Research, has been name... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-21 A new carnivorous dinosaur species named Dracoraptor hanigani uncovered in the south of Wales is possibly the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur from the UK, according to a study published January 20, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David Ma... 阅读全文>>