日期：2014-04-14 New research from the University of Southampton has identified a coral-eating flatworm as a potential threat for coral reefs. It is barely possible to see the parasitic worm Amakusaplana acroporae when it sits on its favourite hosts, the staghorn co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-09 A team of researchers lead by Florida State University have found new evidence that permafrost（永久冻土） thawing is releasing large quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere via plants, which could accelerate warming trends. The research... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-09 European scientists have made ground-breaking discoveries for improving the efficiency of the production of pharmaceuticals through plant biotechnology. Biotechnological production offers a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-09 Materials scientists have long known that introducing defects into three-dimensional materials can improve their mechanical and electronic properties. Now a new Northwestern study finds how defects affect two-dimensional crystalline（水晶般的） stru... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-09 Technical objections to the idea that Neandertals interbred with the ancestors of Eurasians have been overcome, thanks to a genome analysis method described in the April 2014 issue of the journal Genetics. The technique can more confidently detect t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-09 A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at the University of Queensland, Australia, overturns a long-held theory in plant science. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven Nat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-08 Women who have radiotherapy for breast cancer have a small but significantly increased risk of subsequently developing a primary lung tumour, and now research has shown that this risk increases with the amount of radiation absorbed by the tissue. Dr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-08 Several studies have looked at possible links between maternal obesity during pregnancy and the risk of developmental disorders in the child. However, paternal obesity could be a greater risk factor than maternal obesity, according to a new study fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-08 The visibility of smoking in city streets has for the first time anywhere been mapped, in new research from the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. The research found that up to 116 smokers outside bars/cafs could be seen from any one loca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-08 New research from North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill reveals that energy is transferred more efficiently inside of complex, three-dimensional organic solar cells when the donor molecules align face-on, rather than edge-on, relative... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-08 Twitter and other social networking services have revolutionized the way people create and maintain relationships. However, new research shows that Twitter use could actually be damaging to users' romantic relationships. Russell Clayton, a doctoral... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-08 Passwords, gestures and fingerprint scans are all helpful ways to keep a thief from unlocking and using a cell phone or tablet. Cybersecurity researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have gone a step further. They've developed a new secu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-07 A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cell Reports and presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Conference 2014 shows that the cellular process of autophagy（自我吞噬） in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-06 The first comprehensive map of hummingbirds' 22-million-year-old family tree -- reconstructed based on careful analysis of 284 of the world's 338 known species -- tells a story of rapid and ongoing diversification. The decade-long study reported in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-06 An international team of planetary scientists determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the solar system, according to a paper to be published April 3 in Nature. This conclusion is based on measurements from the int... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-06 Andalusian researchers, led by the University of Granada, have discovered a curious characteristic of the members of the human lineage, classed as the genus Homo: they are the only primates where, throughout their 2.5-million year history, the size... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-06 ESA's Sentinel satellite, due for launch on April 3rd, should allow scientists to test this link in greater detail and eventually develop a forecast system for all volcanoes, including those that are remote and inaccessible. Volcano deformation and,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-06 Moderate to severe depression increases the risk of heart failure by 40%, a study of nearly 63,000 Norwegians has shown. The findings were presented for the first time today at EuroHeartCare 2014. EuroHeartCare is the official annual meeting of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-06 The risk of stroke may be much higher in people with insomnia compared to those who don't have trouble sleeping, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. The risk also seems to be far greater when insomnia occurs a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-06 Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have, for the first time, created enzyme-like activity using peptides（缩氨酸） that are only seven amino acids long. A rendering of a catalytic amyloid-forming peptide, with zinc ions shown as gray spher... 阅读全文>>