日期：2013-04-23 Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25-hydroxyvitamin D) as taking supplemental vitamin D2 or vi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-23 Running two computer models in tandem（协力地） , scientists from the University of New Hampshire have detailed for the first time how thermoelectric（热电的） power plants interact with climate, hydrology（水文学） , and aquatic ecosystems througho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-23 Two Spanish scientists have designed an equation（方程式） that provides a highly accurate estimate of an individual's speed based on stride length. They used data from professional athletes and walking and running experiments on a beach in order to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-23 Child sponsorship is a leading form of direct aid from households in wealthy countries to children in developing countries, with approximately 3.39 billion dollars spent to sponsor 9.14 million children internationally. A new study published in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-23 Accurately depicting dinosaur anatomy（解剖学） has come a long way since the science fiction films of the 1960s. In celebration of the American Association of Anatomists' (AAA) 125th anniversary, renowned dinosaur anatomy expert Dr. Lawrence Witmer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-23 Just as humans can follow complex social situations in deciding who to befriend or to abandon, it turns out that animals use the same level of sophistication in judging social configurations, according to a new study that advances our understanding... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 When the woods get crowded, female squirrels improve their offspring's odds of survival by ramping up how fast their offspring grow. In a study led by Michigan State University and the University of Guelph (Canada), researchers showed for the first... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 Fishes account for over half of vertebrate（脊椎动物的） species, but while groups such as mammals, birds and reptiles have been fairly well understood by scientists for decades, knowledge about relationships among many types of fishes was essential... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 In the global aftershock zone that followed the major April 2012 Indian Ocean earthquake, seismologists noticed an unusual pattern. The magnitude (M) 8.6 earthquake, a strike-slip event at intraoceanic tectonic plates, caused global seismic rates of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 The greatest threat of a tsunami for the U.S. east coast from a nearby offshore earthquake stretches from the coast of New England to New Jersey, according to John Ebel of Boston College, who presented his findings today at the Seismological Society... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 Ludwig researchers Arshad Desai and Christopher Campbell, a post-doctoral fellow in his laboratory, were conducting an experiment to parse（解析） the molecular details of cell division about three years ago, when they engineered a mutant yeast cell... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-19 A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals. 一项被泄漏出来的检测转基因玉米的研究揭示，实验室造出的有机玉米替代品中的有毒化学物质含量惊人。 A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-18 Popular texting, messaging and microblog apps developed for the Android smartphone have security flaws that could expose private information or allow forged fraudulent（欺骗性的） messages to be posted, according to researchers at the University of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-18 Salt Lake Valley, home to the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone and the West Valley fault zone, has been the site of repeated surface-faulting earthquakes (of about magnitude 6.5 to 7). New research trenches in the area are helping ge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-18 Many dog owners have their pets spayed or neutered（中性的） to help control the pet population, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests the procedure could add to the length of their lives and alter the risk of specific causes of d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-18 An historic fish, with an intriguing（有趣的） past, now has had its genome sequenced, providing a wealth of information on the genetic changes that accompanied the adaptation from an aquatic（水生的） environment to land. A team of international re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-17 An international team of researchers, including an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, has an explanation for why we see so many hybrid（混合的，杂种的） moths in nature. The team closely examined the behavior and the olfactory... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-17 Ypsolophid moths are a peculiar（特殊的） group of Lepidoptera that attracts attention with their strange preference for a pose of rest. To take a break adult Ypsolophids like to go bottom up with antennae（天线，触须） stretched forward. The larvae... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-17 A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose（纤维素） into starch（淀粉） , a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as food crops. Y.H.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-17 Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and UC Berkeley and have discovered new materials to capture methane, the second highest concentration greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere. Methane is a substantial（大量的） driver... 阅读全文>>