日期：2014-09-01 A new study of satellite data from the last 19 years reveals that fresh water from melting glaciers has caused the sea-level around the coast of Antarctica to rise by 2cm more than the global average of 6cm. Researchers at the University of Southamp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-28 The relationship between a shepherd and his sheepdog has always seemed almost magical, but scientists now say it can be explained by two simple rules. 牧羊人与牧羊犬的关系一直以来似乎都很神奇，但是科学家们称这种关系可以用两条简单的规则解释。 Researc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-28 Fluorochemicals（含氟化合物） are synthetically produced chemicals, which repel（抵制） water and oil and are persistent towards aggressive physical and chemical conditions in industrial processing. These characteristics have made the fluorochemical... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-28 Men who eat over 10 portions a week of tomatoes have an 18 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests. With 35,000 new cases every year in the UK, and around 10,000 deaths, prostate cancer is the second most common canc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-28 Recycled tires could see new life in lithium-ion batteries that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and store energy produced by wind and solar, say researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. By modifying the mic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-28 Due to global warming, scientists say, the chances of the southwestern United States experiencing a decade long drought is at least 50 percent, and the chances of a megadrought -- one that lasts over 30 years -- ranges from 20 to 50 percent over the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-27 A new analysis suggests the planet can produce much more land-plant biomass -- the total material in leaves, stems, roots, fruits, grains and other terrestrial plant parts -- than previously thought. The study, reported in Environmental Science and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-27 New research findings from a study of 634 couples found that the more often they smoked marijuana（大麻） , the less likely they were to engage in domestic violence. The study, conducted by researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Public H... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-27 Decades of experiments have verified the quirky（古怪的） laws of quantum theory again and again. So when scientists in Germany announced in 2012 an apparent violation of a fundamental law of quantum mechanics, a physicist at the University of Roche... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-27 A unique experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer（测高仪） has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending（离奇古怪令人费解的） questions about our universe -- includin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-27 Existing power plants around the world will pump out more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide over their expected lifetimes, significantly adding to atmospheric levels of the climate-warming gas, according to UC Irvine and Princeton University s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 The Madagascar pochard, the world's rarest bird, will not be able to thrive without a new wetland home. 马达加斯加潜鸭，世界上最稀有的鸟类，需要一处新的湿地家园才可能继续繁衍生息。 This is according to a study revealing that 96% of the chicks are dy... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 In a study published in Nature Genetics, researchers from Uppsala University present the first global analysis of genome variation in honeybees. The findings show a surprisingly high level of genetic diversity in honeybees, and indicate that the spe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 The severe drought gripping the western United States in recent years is changing the landscape well beyond localized effects of water restrictions and browning lawns. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have now discov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 A ubiquitous（普遍存在的） skin fungus linked to dandruff（头皮屑） , eczema（湿疹） and other itchy, flaky maladies in humans has now been tracked to even further global reaches -- including Hawaiian coral reefs and the extreme environments of arct... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 Anyone who has suffered an injury can probably remember the after-effects, including pain, swelling（肿胀） or redness. These are signs that the body is fighting back against the injury. When tissue in the body is damaged, biological programs are ac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 For credence（信任，凭证） services such as auto-repair, healthcare, and legal services, the benefit to the customers for the service is difficult to assess before and even after the service. A new study in a journal of the Institute for Operations... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-25 The moon appears to be a tranquil（安静的） place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-25 The vast reservoir of carbon stored in Arctic permafrost is gradually being converted to carbon dioxide (CO2) after entering the freshwater system in a process thought to be controlled largely by microbial activity. However, a new study -- funded by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-25 Following rapid warming in the late 20th century, this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at Earth's surface. At first this was a blip（标记） , then a trend, then a puzzle for the climate science communi... 阅读全文>>