日期：2013-09-06 A new research study has revealed that the cheetah（猎豹） , the world's fastest land animal, matches and may even anticipate the escape tactics of different prey when hunting, rather than just relying on its speed and agility（敏捷） as previously... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Ever been trading a flurry（慌张，疾风） of text messages when there's an awkward pause? Well, new research shows you probably should be suspicious. A Brigham Young University study finds when people lie in digital messages -- texting, social media... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft reveal that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed. Interstellar atoms flow past Earth as the solar system pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 The University of Florida's (UF) Blueberry Breeding Program has been developing successful blueberry cultivars（栽培品种） for more than 60 years. The cultivars released from UF are credited with creating a Florida blueberry industry that was valued... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 By studying hibernation, a Duke University team is providing a window into why humans sleep. Observations of a little-known primate called the fat-tailed dwarf lemur（狐猴） in captivity and the wild has revealed that it goes for days without the de... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 Having a tattoo can reduce your chance of getting a job, but it depends on where the tattoo is, what it depicts and if the job involves dealing with customers, new research says. Dr Andrew R. Timming told the British Sociological Association confere... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 Throughout the western United States, Canada, and Mexico, Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum Sarg.) is known for its pleasant fragrance（香味，芬芳） and valuable wood. The juniper's woodhighly valued for its durability, rich color, and pl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 The amount of ozone created from aircraft pollution is highest from flights leaving and entering Australia and New Zealand, a new study has shown. The findings, which have been published today, Thursday 5 September, in IOP Publishing's journal Envir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 The results of research conducted by professors at UC Santa Barbara and colleagues mark the beginning of a new paradigm for our understanding of the history of Earth's great global ice sheets. The research shows that, contrary to the popularly held... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 The evolution of similar traits in different species, a process known as convergent（会聚性的） evolution, is widespread not only at the physical level, but also at the genetic level, according to new research led by scientists at Queen Mary Univers... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-05 Scientists at UC San Francisco are reporting that they have found a way to reverse some of the negative effects of aging on the brain, using a video game designed to improve cognitive control. The findings, published on Sept. 5 in Nature, show that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 A postdoctoral fellow from Wits University has discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. Dr Robert Gess, from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits, discovered the 350 million year old fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 Researchers from the universities in Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Ulm have proposed a new platform for quantum simulation. In a theoretical paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, they show that a combined system of ultracold trapped i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 Like naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus gaber), blind mole-rats (of the genus Spalax) live underground in low-oxygen environments, are long-lived and resistant to cancer. A new study demonstrates just how cancer-resistant Spalax are, and suggests that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 Shocks caused by climate and seasonal change could be used to aid recovery of some of the world's badly-degraded coral reefs, an international team of scientists has proposed. A new report by Australian and Swedish marine scientists in the journal F... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 In 1909, an Iranian telegraph operator living in the remote desert town of Kerman noticed an unusual movement of the magnetic needle of his telegraph instrument. While other telegraph operators during the late 1800s and early 1900s noticed the pheno... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 An international group of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Argonne National Laboratory and Seoul National University have discovered a groundbreaking technique in manufacturing nanostructures that has the potential to make electrical an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 An international team of scientists, including biologists from, the University of York, has discovered five new species of bats in West Africa. The team, which also included researchers from the Czech University of Life Sciences and the Academy of S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 MIT researchers have shown that they can turn genes on or off inside yeast and human cells by controlling when DNA is copied into messenger RNA -- an advance that could allow scientists to better understand the function of those genes. The technique... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-04 Social networking sites have become incredibly popular in recent years, with Facebook now ranking as the third most popular website in the U.S. With so many people spending so much time on Facebook, public relations professionals are using the site... 阅读全文>>