16-02-15 Between the World and Me BY TA-NEHISI COATES It is a riveting meditation on the state of race in America that has arrived at a tumultuous moment in America's history of racial strife. What it does better than any other recent book is relentlessly dr...

16-01-27 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...

15-12-27 The global burden of cancer is shifting dramatically. Once considered a disease of the wealthy, it now has a significant impact in every region, and the greatest proportional increases in cases in the coming years are predicted to be in the poorest...

15-12-25 I watched through blurred vision as my husband, Chuck, walked away with his ex-wife. The heaviness in all our hearts was almost unbearable. Turning back to my stepsons casket I somehow helped my children pluck a rose from the brother spray to press...

15-12-19 The most popular fruit in the world - bananas - may be about to be wiped out by an invisible killer bug. 一种无形的致死性病菌或许马上就要把香蕉这种世界上最受欢迎的水果赶尽杀绝了。 Panama Disease - which has already destroyed the most popular variety...

15-11-12 When Flory arrived at the Club he found the Lackersteens in an unusually morose mood. Mrs Lackersteen was sitting, as usual, in the best place under the punkah, and was reading the Civil List, the Debrett of Burma. She was in a bad temper with her h...

15-10-13 An estimated seven to ten million people worldwide are living with Parkinson's disease (PD), which is an incurable and progressive disease of the nervous system affecting movement and cognitive function. More than half of PD patients develop progres...

15-09-20 Boston researchers have developed a supercomputer they claim can predict with 96% probability if a patient is about to die. 波士顿的研究人员发明了一种超级计算机，据说能预测病人是不是快要死亡，准确性高达96%。 The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...

15-09-18 According to initial results of a multi-site landmark study, led by Dominic Raj, M.D., at the George Washington University (GW) site, cardiovascular disease morbidity is significantly reduced through intensive management of high blood pressure. By t...

15-09-01 Researchers have unraveled the mystery cause of the emerging wheat disease White Grain Disorder. Scientists at the Wheat Biosecurity Laboratory at The Australian National University (ANU) identified the cause of the disease when they isolated three...