日期：2014-08-25 Children's social skills may be declining as they have less time for face-to-face interaction due to their increased use of digital media, according to a UCLA psychology study. UCLA scientists found that sixth-graders who went five days without even... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-25 Everyone's heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex and requires extensive communication between the male and fe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-21 U.S. hospitalizations and deaths from heart disease and stroke dropped significantly in the last decade, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Interestingly, these improvements happened in a period when the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-21 The sweet and salty aroma（芳香） of sunscreen and seawater signals a relaxing trip to the shore. But scientists are now reporting that the idyllic（悠闲的） beach vacation comes with an environmental hitch. When certain sunblock ingredients wash of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-21 A new online tool will help doctors predict which patients are most likely to develop diabetes. The calculator will help doctors identify high risk patients so that they can be tested for the disease and offered lifestyle advice. The test is targete... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-21 For the first time, chemists have succeeded in measuring vibrational motion of a single molecule with a femtosecond（飞秒） time resolution. The study reveals how vibration of a single molecule differs from the behaviour of larger molecular groups.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-21 Tuberculosis（肺结核） is one of the most persistent and deadliest infectious diseases in the world, killing one to two million people each year. Scientists who study tuberculosis have long debated its origins. New research shows that tuberculosis l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-19 Depression and anxiety are twice as common in people newly-diagnosed with Parkinson's disease compared with the general population, research suggests. 研究显示，抑郁和焦虑在帕金森综合症初诊患者中出现的几率是普通人群的两倍。 Writing in the journal Ne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-19 Leaf measurements are often critical in plant physiological and ecological studies, but traditional methods have been time consuming and sometimes destructive to plant samples. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed Easy... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-19 A new study provides an exciting insight into the Late Cretaceous and the diversity and distribution of the toothless 'dragon' pterosaurs（翼手龙） from the Azhdarchidae family. The research was published in the open access journal ZooKeys. The Azhd... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-19 According to new research humble, microscopic organisms can create dripstones（石笋） in caves. This illustrates how biological life can influence the formation of Earth's geology -- and the same may be happening right now on other planets in space.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-18 From research stations drifting on ice floes（冰川） to high-tech aircraft radar, scientists have been tracking the depth of snow that accumulates on Arctic sea ice for almost a century. Now that people are more concerned than ever about what is hap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-18 It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us -- which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold -- may very well be affecting both our cravings and moods to get us to eat what they want, and often are driving us toward obesity.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-18 It has been speculated that soil-dwelling parasitic worms use their sense of smell to find suitable hosts for infection. Research published on August 14th in PLOS Pathogens comparing odor-driven behaviors in different roundworm（蛔虫） species revea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-18 A Virginia Tech scientist has discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genetic information with one another. The finding by Jim Westwood, a professor of plant pathology, physi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-18 Laser physicists have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more sensitive and capable of detecting forces as small as the weight of an individual virus. The technique, developed by researchers at The Australian National Univer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-15 Where does the name Ebola come from? The virus is named after the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That's where the virus was discovered in 1976. If there's no vaccine or cure, what are doctors doing to treat Ebola pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-14 Being overweight and obese puts people at greater risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers, according to research in the Lancet medical journal. 医学期刊《柳叶刀》上的一项调查显示，超重与肥胖会使人患10中常见癌症飞几率大大增加。 Scientists ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-14 Recent research has suggested that women play better with others in small working groups, and that adding women to a group is a surefire（准不会有错的） way to boost team collaboration and creativity. But a new study from Washington University in St... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-14 Heart failure is a major public health burden in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with substantial variation in the presentation, causes, management, and outcomes of heart failure across different LMICs, according to a study published... 阅读全文>>