14-09-15 Living cells are like miniature factories, responsible for the production of more than 25,000 different proteins with very specific 3-D shapes. And just as an overwhelmed assembly line can begin making mistakes, a stressed cell can end up producing...

14-06-30 For children, stress can go a long way. A little bit provides a platform for learning, adapting and coping. But a lot of it -- chronic, toxic stress like poverty, neglect and physical abuse -- can have lasting negative impacts. A team of University...

14-06-11 Scientists believe they have an explanation for the axiom that stress, emotional shock, or overexertion may trigger heart attacks in vulnerable people. Hormones released during these events appear to cause bacterial biofilms on arterial（动脉的） wa...

14-06-03 Psychological stress is harmful to sperm and semen quality, affecting its concentration, appearance, and ability to fertilize an egg, according to a study led by researchers Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Rutgers School of...

14-04-29 Scientists' inability to replicate research findings using mice and rats has contributed to mounting concern over the reliability of such studies. Now, an international team of pain researchers led by scientists at McGill University in Montreal may...

14-04-28 Marital stress may make people more vulnerable to depression, according to a recent study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their colleagues. The long-term study, published in the April 2014 Journal of Psychophysiology, shows that p...

14-04-17 From far away, the top of a leaf looks like one seamless surface; however, up close, that smooth exterior is actually made up of a patchwork（拼缀物） of cells in a variety of shapes and sizes. Interested in how these cells individually take on thei...

14-03-30 研究表明，男性会在压力下会变得更加以自我为中心，他们会很容易把情绪发泄到周围人身上。而女性面对压力，则会变得更加愿意亲近社会。 Everyone gets stressed out, but new research suggests that men and women cope with these situations in different ways. Acc...

14-03-13 In the global aftershock zone that followed the major April 2012 Indian Ocean earthquake, seismologists noticed an unusual pattern -- a dynamic stress shadow, or period of seismic silence when some faults（断层） near failure were temporarily render...

13-11-07 New research on pond snails has revealed that high levels of stress can block memory processes. Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Calgary trained snails and found that when they were exposed to multiple stressful events...