日期：2013-09-11 Your reaction to the price on a bottle of wine or another product is partly a response to how powerful you feel, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The degree to which one feels powerful influences which type of price comp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 Dingoes have been unjustly blamed for the extinctions on the Australian mainland of the Tasmanian tiger (or thylacine) and the Tasmanian devil, a University of Adelaide study has found. In a paper published in the journal Ecology, the researchers sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 Researchers of the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have discovered a mass grave in an artificial cave in the historical Maya city of Uxul (Mexico). Marks on the bones indicate that the individuals buried in the c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 New research has revealed the hidden past of crocodiles, showing for the first time how these fierce reptiles evolved and survived in a dinosaur dominated world. While most modern crocodiles live in freshwater habitats and feed on mammals and fish,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 Evidence of diverse life forms dating back nearly a hundred thousand years has been found in subglacial（冰川下的） lake sediments by a group of British scientists. The possibility that extreme life forms might exist in the cold and dark lakes hidde... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 A new analysis concludes that large numbers of patients in advanced stages of kidney disease are inappropriately being prescribed statins（他汀类药物） to lower their cholesterol（胆固醇） -- drugs that offer them no benefit and may increase other h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 Consumers are more likely to participate in online betting if it's called gaming rather than gambling, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Changing an industry label from gambling to gaming affects what consumers, especiall... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 Consumers have negative reactions to flattery（奉承，谄媚） by salespeople, even if they think the compliments are sincere, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But disliking a salesperson doesn't mean a customer won't buy f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 Scientists discovered a new species of a peculiar（独特的） cave-dwelling snail in one of the 20 deepest cave systems in the world, Lukina Jama-Trojama in Croatia. The newly discovered species belongs to a genus of minute air-breathing land snails t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 An important discovery has been made concerning the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor in ASU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, found that the Sutter's Mi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-11 By studying how memories are made, UC Irvine neurobiologists（神经生物学家） created new, specific memories by direct manipulation of the brain, which could prove key to understanding and potentially resolving learning and memory disorders. Research... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-07 A team of researchers has discovered the cranium（颅，头骨） of a fossil ape from Shuitangba, a Miocene site in Yunnan Province, China. The juvenile cranium of the fossil ape Lufengpithecus is significant, according to team member Nina Jablonski, Di... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-07 Orphaned chimpanzees are less socially competent（胜任的，有能力的） than chimpanzees who were reared by their mother. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, observed that orphaned chimpanzees f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-07 Physicists at the University of Houston's physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovation that could boost vehicle mileage by 5 percent and power plant and industrial processing performance as much as 10 pe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-07 Coral reefs are tremendously important for ocean biodiversity, as well as for the economic and aesthetic value（美学价值） they provide to their surrounding communities. Unfortunately they have been in great decline in recent years, much of it due t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-07 Researchers have developed a new technique to produce thin films of germanium（锗） crystals -- key components for next-generation electronic devices such as advanced large-scale integrated circuits and flexible electronics, which are required for g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-07 An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech -- Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering has developed a flexible microneedle patch that allows drugs to be delivered directly and fully through the skin. The new patch can quicken drug delivery t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 A University of Houston (UH) professor led a team of scientists to uncover the largest single volcano yet documented on Earth. Covering an area roughly equivalent to the British Isles or the state of New Mexico, this volcano, dubbed the Tamu Massif,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Forests in the northeastern US have been radically transformed over the last four centuries by human activity, and their relationship with climate factors like rainfall weakened, according to research published September 4 in the open access journal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Overgrazing by millions of sheep and goats is the primary cause of degraded land in the Mongolian Steppe, one of the largest remaining grassland ecosystems in the world, Oregon State University researchers say in a new report. Using a new satellite-... 阅读全文>>