日期：2013-05-03 Until recently, the only primate known to hibernate（东面） as a survival strategy was a creature called the western fat-tailed dwarf lemur, a tropical tree-dweller from the African island of Madagascar. But it turns out this hibernating lemur（狐猴... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-03 Scientists have made a fundamental discovery about how the properties of embryonic（胚胎的） stem cells are controlled. The study, which focuses on the process by which these cells renew and increase in number, could help research to find new treatm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-03 A Lund University research team has shed new light on why gastric bypass（胃绕道手术） often sends diabetes into remission（缓解） rapidly, opening the door to developing treatment with the same effect. 85% of patients with type 2 diabetes who under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-02 In an advance toward solving a 50-year-old mystery, scientists are reporting new evidence on how the fluoride in drinking water, toothpastes, mouth rinses（口腔清洗剂） and other oral-care products prevents tooth decay. Their report appears in the A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-02 Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation（传播，繁殖） , which can ultimately result in human-made disasters. For example, today's quick spreading of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-02 In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists, including a Michigan State University professor, has examined a meteorite（陨星） that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ago. And... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-02 Amphibian populations living close to agricultural fields have become more resistant to a common insecticide and are actually resistant to multiple common insecticides, according to two recent studies conducted at the University of Pittsburgh. Amphi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-02 Normal vision is essentially a spatial（空间的） sense that often relies upon touch and movement during and after development, there is often a correlation between how an object looks and how it feels. Moreover, as a child's senses develop, there is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-28 New research suggests it may be down to a subconscious power struggle being played out as you make your way up or down. 新研究指出，在你上下电梯时，你的表现可能源自一种下意识的权利斗争。 A study found that people decide where they stand based on a m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-27 A collaboration of plant and soil scientists from across the UK has shown a grass hybrid species could help reduce the impact of flooding. The BBSRC-funded scientists, from Rothamsted Research, the James Hutton Institute, Institute of Biological, En... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-27 The Maya civilization is well-known for its elaborate（精心制作的） temples, sophisticated writing system, and mathematical and astronomical developments, yet the civilization's origins remain something of a mystery. A new University of Arizona stud... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-27 When predicting the outcome of a fight, the big guy doesn't always win suggests new research on fish. Scientists at the University of Exeter and Texas AM University found that when fish fight over food, it is personality, rather than size, that dete... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-27 Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outside the town of Falkping, Sweden. The researchers have for example tried to identify parts of the inhabitants'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-27 A University of Washington astronomer is using Earth's interstellar（星际的） neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may host. Characterization by proxy is the technique... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-27 Sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC). These high sea surface... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 The microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is nearly identical（同一的） to that of ambient air on the city streets. This research, published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, establish... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 Biologists at UC San Diego have identified eight genes never before suspected to play a role in wound healing that are called into action near the areas where wounds occur. Their discovery, detailed this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 Scientists in Mainz and Aachen have discovered a new mechanism that controls egg cell fertility and that might have future therapeutic potential. It was revealed by Professor Dr. Walter Stcker of the Institute of Zoology at Johannes Gutenberg Univer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 A microbial byproduct of intestinal（肠道的） bacteria contributes to heart disease and serves as an accurate screening tool for predicting future risks of heart attack, stroke and death in persons not otherwise identified by traditional risk factor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-25 Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies, are one of about 18 families of chalcid（小蜂） wasps. Fairyflies occur worldwide, except in Antarctica. They include the world's smallest known winged insect -- Kikiki huna, the body length of which is only... 阅读全文>>