日期：2013-08-05 Baby birds have sleep patterns similar to baby mammals, and their sleep changes in the same way when growing up. This is what a team from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and the University of Lausanne found out working with barn owls in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-05 Researchers from the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at Sydney's Centenary Institute have confirmed that, far from being junk, the 97 per cent of human DNA that does not encode instructions for making proteins can play a significant role in contr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-05 Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team of leading disease ecologists, with serious impacts to human health and biodiversity conservation. Writing in the journal Science, they propo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-05 How is vital oxygen supplied to the tropical ocean? For the first time, oceanographers at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel were able to make quantitative statements regarding this question. They showed that about one third of the oxyg... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-05 Chemists have unexpectedly made two differently colored crystals -- one orange, the other blue -- from one chemical in the same flask（烧瓶） while studying a special kind of molecular connection called an agostic bond. The discovery, reported in An... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-05 Warming oceans are causing marine species to change breeding times and shift homes with expected substantial consequences for the broader marine landscape, according to a new global study. The three-year research project, funded by the National Cent... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-02 Scientists believe that pigeons have a spatial map that allows them to fly in an unfamiliar territory and know exactly where they are going. 科学家经过实验得出结论：鸽子大脑中有一幅空间地图，因而能够在陌生地区飞行，并能判断出确切的飞行方向。 蓝箭头... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-01 Ethanol（乙醇） from corn and other plants could become the sustainable, raw material for a huge variety of products, from plastic packaging to detergents（洗涤剂） to synthetic rubber, that are currently petroleum-based. This was the conclusion of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-01 As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate（减轻，缓和） climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-01 The giant water bug Lethocerus patruelis is the largest European true bug and the largest European water insect. The adult bugs reach an impressive 8 cm in length, and the largest representatives of the same family are even bigger -- up to almost 12... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-01 Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have discovered, in theory, the possibility of creating large, hollow magnetic cage molecules that could one day be used in medicine as a drug delivery system to non-invasively treat tumors, and in other... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-01 With the green reputation of large hydroelectric dams already in question, scientists are reporting that millions of smaller dams on rivers around the world make an important contribution to the greenhouse gases linked to global climate change. Thei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-01 What happens to a resonant（洪亮的，共振的） wireless power transfer system in the presence of complex electromagnetic environments, such as metal plates? A team of researchers explored the influences at play in this type of situation, and they desc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-01 If some volcanoes operate on geologic timescales, Costa Rica's Iraz had something of a short fuse（火爆脾气） . In a new study in the journal Nature, scientists suggest that the 1960s eruption of Costa Rica's largest stratovolcano（成层火山） was tr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-31 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have identified the mechanism behind a plague（瘟疫，灾祸） of LED light bulbs: a flaw called efficiency droop that causes LEDs to lose up to 20 percent of their efficiency as they are subjected to greate... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-31 Just as remotely-operated vehicles help humans explore the depths of the ocean from above, NASA has begun studying how a similar approach may one day help astronauts explore other worlds. On June 17 and July 26, NASA tested the Surface Telerobotics... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-31 A new technique for depositing silver onto clothing fibres could open up huge opportunities in wearable electronics. Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute, have developed a way to print silver... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-31 An international collaboration of researchers including Felicia Goodrum of the University of Arizona's immunobiology department has studied how a human herpes（疱疹） virus carried by the majority of the population packages its genetic information d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-31 Type 2 diabetics who have severe hypoglycaemia（低血糖） are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, a new article suggests. Severe hypoglycaemia is a condition where there is an abnormally low content of sugar in the blood. It is often classed as... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-31 It might be easier than previously thought for a planet to overheat into the scorchingly uninhabitable runaway greenhouse stage, according to new research by astronomers at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria published July 2... 阅读全文>>