日期：2013-10-06 New England's Native tribes, whose sustainable ways of farming, forestry, hunting and land and water management were devastated by European colonists four centuries ago, can help modern America adapt to climate change. That's the conclusion of more... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-06 Warning Instagrammers: you might want to stop taking so many pictures of your food. New research out of BYU finds that looking at too many pictures of food can actually make it less enjoyable to eat. Turns out your friend's obsession（痴迷，困扰） w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-06 The mystery of why life on Earth evolved when it did has deepened with the publication of a new study in the latest edition of the journal Science. Scientists at the CRPG-CNRS University of Lorraine, The University of Manchester and the Institut de... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-06 A group of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers, and collaborators at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have found a way to use stem cells as drug delivery vehicles. The researchers inserted modified strands... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-06 The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein's brain were unusually well connected to each other and may have contributed to his brilliance, according to a new study conducted in part by Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-06 Doctors who abuse prescription drugs often do so for self-medication -- whether for physical or emotional pain or stress relief, reports a study in the October Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-06 When you heat a tiny droplet of liquid tin with a laser, plasma forms on the surface of the droplet and produces extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, which has a higher frequency and greater energy than normal ultraviolet. Now, for the first time, resea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 Streamers may be great for decorating a child's party, but in dielectrics（电介质） , they are the primary origin of electric breakdown. They can cause catastrophic damage to electrical equipment, harm the surrounding environment, and lead to large-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 A tiny chip used in smart phones to adjust the orientation（定向） of the screen could serve to create a real-time urban seismic network, easily increasing the amount of strong motion data collected during a large earthquake, according to a new stud... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 Younger patients with colorectal（结肠直肠的） cancer that has spread (metastasised) to other parts of the body represent a high-risk group that is less likely to respond to anti-cancer treatments. Their disease is more likely to progress and they a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 Scientists have discovered differences in the brain structure of ballet dancers that may help them avoid feeling dizzy when they perform pirouettes（脚尖旋转） . The research suggests that years of training can enable dancers to suppress signals fro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 A b ioinformatics（生物信息学） approach to repurposing drugs resulted in identification of a class of antidepressants as a potential new treatment for small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), according to a study published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 After doing specific training for 12 weeks, people over the age of 90 improved their strength, power and muscle mass. This was reflected in an increase in their walking speed, a greater capacity to get out of their chairs, an improvement in their ba... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 Patients with advanced melanoma（黑素瘤） , who have been treated with the monoclonal antibody, ipilimumab（伊匹单抗） , can survive for up to ten years, according to the largest analysis of overall survival for these patients, presented at the 2013... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 Pouring a glass of wine is rarely an exact measurement, especially in a social setting（社会环境） . While most people think of a glass as one serving, in reality it could be closer to two or three. Just how much one pours is influenced by a variety... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-30 One problem in developing more efficient organic LED light bulbs and displays for TVs and phones is that much of the light is polarized in one direction and thus trapped within the light-emitting diode, or LED. University of Utah physicists believe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-27 For astrophysicists, the interplay of hydrogen -- the most common molecule in the universe -- and the vast clouds of dust that fill the voids of interstellar space has been an intractable puzzle of stellar evolution. The dust, astronomers believe, i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-27 Animals living in marine environments keep to their schedules with the aid of multiple independent -- and, in at least some cases, interacting -- internal clocks. The findings, presented by two research groups in papers appearing in the Cell Press j... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-27 Two species of tawny（黄褐色） brown singing mice that live deep in the mountain cloud forests of Costa Rica and Panama set their boundaries by emitting high-pitched trills, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered. Although... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-27 Assessing the risk posed to aquatic organisms by the discharge of certain steroids（类固醇） and pharmaceutical products into waterways is often based on a belief that as the compounds degrade, the ecological risks naturally decline. But there's gro... 阅读全文>>