日期：2014-06-26 Wrinkles, creases and folds are everywhere in nature, from the surface of human skin to the buckled（有扣的） crust of Earth. They can also be useful structures for engineers. Wrinkles in thin films, for example, can help make durable circuit boards... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-26 Women who are able to naturally have children later in life tend to live longer and the genetic variants that allow them to do so might also facilitate（促进，帮助） exceptionally long life spans. A Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-25 Vampire bats' strict blood diet has made them lose much of their ability to taste bitter flavours, a study has found. 一项研究发现，吸血蝙蝠绝对的血液饮食使它们失去了品尝苦味的能力。 Bitter taste acts as a natural defence against eating poisonous fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-25 There is a story about how the modern golf ball, with its dimpled（带酒窝的） surface, came to be: In the mid-1800s, it is said, new golf balls were smooth, but became dimpled over time as impacts left permanent dents（压痕） . Smooth new balls were... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-25 A University of Colorado Denver study examining collisions between bicycles and motorists, shows bicyclist safety significantly increases when there are more bikes on the road, a finding that could be attributed to a safety in numbers effect. The st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-25 Every year around 450,000 people in Germany are diagnosed with cancer. Each one of them dreams of a victory in the battle against it. But can cancer ever be completely defeated? Researchers at Kiel University (CAU) have now reached a sobering（清醒... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-25 A virus not known to cause disease kills triple-negative breast cancer cells and killed tumors grown from these cells in mice, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Understanding how the virus kills cancer may lead to new treatmen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-25 Smartphones are everywhere, and they may be smarter than you think. Our cell phones actually reflect the personal microbial world of their owners, with potential implications for their use as bacterial and environmental sensors, according to new res... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-24 Biologists at UC San Diego have found the missing link in the chemical system that enables animal cells to produce ribosomes（核糖体） -- the thousands of protein factories contained within each cell that manufacture all of the proteins needed to bu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-24 An international team, composed of 11 institutions from six countries, including BGI, presented the whole-genome sequence of Trichuris suis, a parasitic worm in pig. Understanding the genetics mechanisms underlying the pig parasite may aid to modify... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-24 Variations in high-altitude wind patterns expose particular parts of Europe, Asia and the US to different extreme weather conditions, a new study has shown. Changes to air flow patterns around the Northern Hemisphere are a major influence on prolong... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-24 For the first time, scientists from the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have succeeded in finding evidence for the direct decay of the Higgs boson into fermions（费密子） . Previously, the Higgs particle could only be detec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-21 Aircraft can become more environmentally friendly by choosing flight paths that reduce the formation of their distinctive condensation trails, new research suggests. In a study published today, 19 June 2014, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-21 Don't be so quick to judge. Most people are familiar with the trophy wife stereotype that attractive women marry rich men, placing little importance on their other traits, including physical appearance, and that men look for pretty wives but don't c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-21 Scientists have named a new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) based on fossils collected from Montana in the United States and Alberta, Canada. Mercuriceratops (mer-cure-E-sare-ah-tops) gemini（双生子，双胎） was approximately 6 meters (20 fe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-21 Global warming is generally expected to bring spring forward but, as a new study at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows, a concomitant（相伴的） influx of plant species from warmer southern latitudes could counteract this effect. C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-21 A new study led by the University of Minnesota offers new insights on the long-term future of emperor penguins by showing that the penguins may be behaving in ways that allow them to adapt to their changing environment better than we expected. Resea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 Worms stop ageing when they are starved of food and can go onto live twice as long as normal, a new study has shown. 一项新研究发现，蠕虫在缺乏食物的情况下会停止老化并能存活正常情况下两倍的时间。 Researchers found that nematode（线虫） worms entered... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 A controlled study using functional MRI brain imaging reveals a possible biological link between early musical training and improved executive functioning in both children and adults, report researchers at Boston Children's Hospital. The study, appe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 Your smartphone's display glass could soon be more than just a pretty face, thanks to new technology developed by researchers from Montreal and the New York-based company Corning Incorporated. The team has created the first laser-written light-guidi... 阅读全文>>