日期：2013-05-09 The latest research from a Kansas State University chemical engineer may help improve humidity and pressure sensors, particularly those used in outer space. Vikas Berry, William H. Honstead professor of chemical engineering, and his research team ar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-09 During the late Pleistocene, a remarkably diverse assemblage of large-bodied mammals inhabited the mammoth steppe, a cold and dry yet productive environment that extended from western Europe through northern Asia and across the Bering land bridge to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-09 A George Washington University biologist and a team of researchers have created the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and lizard around the globe. The findings were recently published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 Enzymes could break down cell walls faster -- leading to less expensive biofuels for transportation -- if two enzyme systems are brought together in an industrial setting, new research by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster, while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). This could make power generation from natural gas both cl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 Over 20 million people in Europe suffer from osteoarthritis（骨关节炎） which can lead to extensive damage to the knee and hip cartilage（软骨） . Stem cells offer a promising way forward but a key challenge has been to design a 'smart material' tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 A Wayne State University researcher has successfully tested a technique that can lead to more effective use of nanoparticles as a drug delivery system. Joshua Reineke, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the Eugene Applebaum Col... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 The Ebola virus is among the deadliest viruses on the planet, killing up to 90% of those infected, and there are no approved vaccines or effective therapies. A study published by Cell Press on May 7th in the Biophysical Journal reveals how the most... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 Government policies that boost the amount of home ownership in a country are likely to inflict severe damage on the labour market, new research from the University of Warwick suggests. Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick and Profe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 Johns Hopkins researchers believe they may have discovered an explanation for the sleepless nights associated with restless legs syndrome (RLS), a symptom that persists even when the disruptive, overwhelming nocturnal（夜的） urge to move the legs i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-08 For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet（被单，床罩） of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperature... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-05 Breathing particulate-laden (aka smoggy) air may be hardening your arteries faster than normal, according to research published today in PLOS Medicine. 根据今日发表在《公共科学图书馆医学》杂志上的研究，呼吸含大量颗粒物的（雾霾）空气可能会让你的动脉... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-05 Hair dye manufacturers are on notice: The cure for gray hair is coming. That's right, the need to cover up one of the classic signs of aging with chemical pigments（颜料） will be a thing of the past thanks to a team of European researchers. In a ne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-05 Fossil remains found by a George Washington University biologist in northwestern China have been identified as a new species of small theropod（兽脚类的肉食恐龙） , or meat-eating, dinosaur. The discovery was made by James Clark, the Ronald B. Weint... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-05 A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is presented in Biomed Central's open access journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty today. The map is composed of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry（家禽的） production and consumption... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-05 A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole. When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses under its own gravity and produces a black hole, an object so dense that not even light can escape its... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-03 Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology at the Helsinki University and the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) have developed the first three-dimensional simulation of the evolution of morphology（形态学） by integrating the mechanisms of g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-03 Scientists from the Smithsonian and the University of Rhode Island have found unsuspected linkages between the oxidation（氧化的） state of iron in volcanic rocks and variations in the chemistry of the deep Earth. Not only do the trends run counter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-03 What do all Twitter users want? Followers -- and lots of them. But unless you're a celebrity, it can be difficult to build your Twitter audience (and even some celebs have trouble). Looking at a half-million tweets over 15 months, a first-of-its-kin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-03 Figs（无花果） and fig trees are familiar to a wide cross-section of human society, both as a common food and for their spiritual importance. What is less well understood is the global nature of this association between figs and humans, which is mai... 阅读全文>>