• 压力可以控制我们的基因

    10-09-25 Stress has become one of the major disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look. You may experience stress as something that affects your entire body and mind, the causes of which are plentiful. But if...

  • 地质构造“拉链”

    10-09-10 The complex fracture pattern created by the earthquake in Concepcin (Chile) on 27 February 2010 was to a certain extent predictable(可预言的) . GPS observations from the years before the earthquake showed the pattern of stresses that had accumulat...

  • 童年生活可影响到患精神疾病的风险

    10-08-19 For more than a century, clinical investigators have focused on early life as a source of adult psychopathology(精神病理学) . Although the hypothesized(假定,假设) mechanisms have evolved, a central notion remains: early life is a period of uniq...

  • 心理学家研究士兵战争中及战后心里压力

    10-07-20 Psychologists aren't usually called to the battlefield, but the 2008-09 Gaza War gave Tel Aviv University researchers a unique picture of how anxiety manifests(证明,显示) during stressful situations. In a new study in the American Journal of Psyc...

  • 白杨树亦承受着生存“压力”

    10-05-07 People aren't the only living things that suffer from stress. Trees must deal with stress too. It can come from a lack of water or too much water, from scarcity of a needed nutrient(营养物,滋养物) , from pollution or a changing climate. Helping t...

  • 50岁以下女性须妥善处理工作压力

    10-05-06 Stress at work raises the risk of heart disease for women under 50, a study of more than 12,000 nurses suggests. 一项基于12000多名护士的研究显示,工作带来的压力会使低于50岁的女性患心脏病风险增加。 A heart attack deprives the heart of oxygen, causing...

  • 儿童对压力的高敏感性并不总是坏事

    10-02-08 Children who are especially reactive to stress are more vulnerable to(易受的伤害) adversity(逆境,灾祸) and have more behavior and health problems than their peers(平辈,同事) . But a new longitudinal study(纵向研究) suggests that highly rea...

  • 基因因素比生活压力更容易使女人头发变白

    09-12-01 A woman's genes are much more likely than lifestyle factors such as stress or diet to cause greying hair, a study suggests. 研究显示,一个女人的基因比诸如压力、饮食之类的生活方式因素更容易引起白头发。 There was very little difference in the greying...

  • Torturing 'does not get truth' 严刑逼供“没有作用”

    09-09-23 Torture techniques used on suspected terrorists by the Bush administration may have failed to get to the truth, researchers say. 研究人员称,布什执政时期对恐怖主义嫌疑犯使用的拷问手段可能没有效果。 The extreme stress of torture harms the memory Prof...

  • 'Stress' is shrinking polar bears “压力”迫使北极熊体型收缩

    09-08-26 Polar bears have shrunk over the last century, according to research. 研究显示,上个世纪北极熊的体态有所下降。 Environmental stresses could be causing physical changes in the bears Scientists compared bear skulls from the early 20th Century with tho...