日期：2014-01-27 In 2009, a borehole drilled at Krafla, northeast Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), unexpectedly penetrated into magma (molten rock) at only 2100 meters depth, with a temperature of 900-1000 C. The borehole, IDDP-1, was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 The use of portable, wireless cameras and monitoring equipment for recording and transmitting footage of wildlife is perhaps familiar to anyone who watches nature programs on TV. However, common to all such equipment is the problem of limited batter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 The circadian clock is a molecular network that generates daily rhythms, and is present in both plants and animals. A University of Leicester research team led by Dr Eran Tauber has studied genetic variation in circadian clock genes in wild populati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 The tropical carbon cycle has become twice as sensitive to temperature variations over the past 50 years, new research has revealed. The research shows that a one degree rise in tropical temperature leads to around two billion extra tonnes of carbon... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-26 US researchers suggest smells could be used to calm fears - while people sleep. 美国研究人员发现，在睡眠过程中，我们可以借助气味来缓解恐惧不安的心情。 People were trained to associate two images, linked to smells, with fear. During sleep they were e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-25 一项新研究发现，媒体所提供的一些指责肥胖者的信息可能会让他们的体重有增无减。 The goal to lose weight is the most popular New Year's resolution, as more than two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-24 If you were a shrew（鼩鼱科） snuffling around a North American forest, you would be 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than if you were a moose（驼鹿） grazing nearby. That is just one of the findings of a new University of Colorado... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-24 One quarter of the world's cartilaginous（软骨的） fish, namely sharks and rays, face extinction within the next few decades, according to the first study to systematically and globally assess their fate. The International Union for Conservation of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-24 Sometimes solving a problem doesn't require a high-tech solution. Sometimes, you have to look no farther than your desktop. Three students from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering -- an undergraduate, a master's student, and th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-24 Professional athletes in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball can reap very large financial rewards, especially if their performance peaks during their contract year, or the last season before an athlete signs a new contract... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-24 It may take a legion（军团，众多） of scuba（水肺） divers armed with nets and spears, but a new study confirms for the first time that controlling lionfish populations in the western Atlantic Ocean can pave the way for a recovery of native fish. Ev... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-24 New research from the Monell Center reveals humans can use the sense of smell to detect dietary fat in food. As food smell almost always is detected before taste, the findings identify one of the first sensory qualities that signals whether a food c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-24 UK researchers have identified a biological mechanism that could explain how the Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate were stabilised over the past 24 million years. When CO2 levels became too low for plants to grow properly, forests appea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-23 From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we're on the verge of electronic whiskers（胡须） . Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley hav... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-23 Woodland salamanders（蝾螈） are small, lungless amphibians that live in moist, forest habitats throughout the U.S. and the world. Salamanders often serve as vital links in forest food chains; their population size and recovery from major disturbanc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-23 Photovoltaic（光电的） energy conversion offers one of the best means for the future of renewable energy in the world. The efficiency of solar cells depends heavily upon the light-absorbing materials they use. Photovoltaic systems based on lead hali... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-23 As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside the gadgets to fail. Conventional wisdom suggests t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-23 Findings from a Loyola University Medical Center study ultimately could lead to tests to screen for and diagnose bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is the fourth most common non-skin cancer. But there is no good screening test for it, and there has been... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-23 A recent study by University of Montana faculty and graduate students found that wolf predation of cattle contributes to lower weight gain in calves on western Montana ranches. This leads to an economic loss at sale several times higher than the dir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-23 Two years ago, researchers from Iowa State University (USA) published a study which concluded that spider silk conducts heat as well as metals. Now, a team from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) has repeated the experiment and the results... 阅读全文>>