日期：2013-07-13 An analysis of earthquakes in the area around the Salton Sea Geothermal Field in southern California has found a strong correlation between seismic activity and operations for production of geothermal（地热的） power, which involve pumping water int... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-13 Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that nerves play a critical role in both the development and spread of prostate tumors. Their findings, using both a mouse model and human prostate tissue, may lead... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-13 On July 8, 2013, a huge area of the ice shelf broke away from the Pine Island glacier, the longest and fastest flowing glacier in the Antarctic, and is now floating in the Amundsen Sea in the form of a very large iceberg. Scientists of the Alfred We... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-13 Even the healthiest relationships include arguments, but the topic of the argument could predict risk of divorce, according to a Kansas State University researcher. Arguments about money is by far the top predictor of divorce, said Sonya Britt, assi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-13 Scientists have created a virtual model of the brain that daydreams like humans do. Researchers created the computer model based on the dynamics of brain cells and the many connections those cells make with their neighbors and with cells in other br... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 Thresher sharks（长尾鲨） hunt schooling sardines in the waters off a small coral island in the Philippines by rapidly slapping their tails hard enough to stun or kill several of the smaller fish at once, according to research published July 10 in t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 It might be cold in the Antarctic, but that doesn't mean that life there necessarily moves slowly. A report appearing in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on July 11 reveals the discovery of a surprisingly fast-growing community of glass sp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 Last month, the first expedition to use a deep-diving submersible to study the Atlantic Ocean lionfish invasion found something very disturbing -- at 300 feet deep, there were still significant populations of these predatory fish, and they were big.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-12 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced（推理） the actual visible-light color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away. If seen directly it would look like a deep blue dot, reminiscent of（令人回忆起） Earth's colo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 Many vertebrate species would have to evolve about 10,000 times faster than they have in the past to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years, a study led by a University of Arizona ecologist has found. Scientists analyzed ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 New research has shown surface ice melt will be the dominant process controlling ice-loss from Greenland. As outlet glaciers retreat inland the other process, iceberg production, remains important but will not grow as rapidly. The Greenland ice shee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 The population of the critically endangered large primate known as the drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) has been largely reduced to a few critical habitat areas in Cameroon, according to a recently published study by researchers with the San Diego Zoo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 Older people with Alzheimer's disease are less likely to also have cancer, and older people with cancer are less likely to also have Alzheimer's disease, according to the largest study to date on the topic, which appears in the July 10, 2013, online... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated computations in live cells, as well as new methods of disease detection and treatmen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-11 A new study led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that mammalian species can choose the sex of their offspring in order to beat the odds and produce extra grandchildren. In analyzing 90 years of breeding records fro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-10 Researchers from the University of Liverpool and University of the West of England, (UWE Bristol), have built a device that can read odours（气味） in urine to help diagnose patients with early signs of bladder cancer. There are currently no reliabl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-10 University of British Columbia researchers have developed a vaccine that may halt the spread of West Nile Virus (WNV) among common and endangered bird species. WNV, a mosquito borne pathogen, arrived in North America in 1999 and is now endemic（地方... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-10 Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA's new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously（独立自主地） in one of Earth's harshest environments. The robot known as GROVER, which... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-10 The unique properties of graphene（石墨烯） such as its incredible strength and, at the same time, its little weight have raised high expectations in modern material science. Graphene, a two-dimensional crystal of carbon atoms packed in a honeycomb... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-10 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology and techniques to create free-standing structures made of liquid metal at room temperature. It's difficult to create structures out of liquid... 阅读全文>>