日期：2013-03-24 A study has found that marrying later in life is financially beneficial for women, but not for men. 一项研究发现，晚婚在财政上对女性有利，但对男性却不利。 The University of Virginia has published a report that college-educated women who wed in their... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-24 People who go to the toilet in the middle of the night are less productive at work, study suggests. 研究表明，半夜起床上厕所的人工作效率更低。 Getting up overnight to use the loo（厕所，洗手间） has a bigger impact on a person's work rate than asthm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-24 Looking at old photographs of yourself on Facebook can boost your mood - and be as soothing as a walk in the park, a new study found. 最新研究显示，浏览Facebook上的旧照片可以使情绪振奋，就如同在公园散步一样让人感到慰藉。 Researchers found users typi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-24 Worrying too much about stressful events can trigger inflammation, according to a new study. 一项新研究指出，为一些让人倍感压力的事情过度烦恼可能会引发炎症。 Researchers found dwelling on（详述，细想） negative events can increase levels of inflamma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-22 The discovery of the Rosetta Stone resolved a longstanding puzzle, permitting the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs（象形文字） into Ancient Greek. John Chaput, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute has been hunting for a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-22 A survey of UK doctors found that 97% have prescribed placebo treatments to patients at least once in their career. Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Southampton in the UK discovered that 97% of doctors have used 'impure' placebo treatme... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-22 Virginia Tech researchers successfully used a gene disruption technique to change the eye color of a mosquito -- a critical step toward new genetic strategies aimed at disrupting the transmission of diseases such as dengue fever（登革热） . Zach Ade... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-22 Scientists examining evidence across the world from New Jersey to North Africa say they have linked the abrupt disappearance of half of earth's species 200 million years ago to a precisely dated set of gigantic volcanic eruptions. The eruptions may... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-21 An international team of scientists led by Dr Kate Sanders from the University of Adelaide, and including Dr Mike Lee from the South Australian Museum, has uncovered how some sea snakes have developed ' shrunken（缩小的） heads' -- or smaller physic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-21 Sleep plays an important role in the brain's ability to consolidate learning when two new potentially competing tasks are learned in the same day, research at the University of Chicago demonstrates. Other studies have shown that sleep consolidates l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-21 Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found a layer of liquefied molten rock in Earth's mantle that may be acting as a lubricant（润滑剂） for the sliding motions of the planet's massive tectonic plates. The discover... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-21 Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a peptide（缩氨酸） , or protein, derived from Pacific cod that may inhibit prostate cancer and possibly other cancers from spreading, according to preclinical research pub... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-21 One of the most southerly populations of polar bears in the world -- and the best studied -- is struggling to cope with climate-induced changes to sea ice, new research reveals. Based on over 10 years' data the study, published in the British Ecolog... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-21 Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere（太阳风层） , according to a new study appearing online today. The heliosphere is a region of space dominated by the S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-19 Marine biologists have, for the first time, found a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica, giving new insights into life in the sea depths. The discovery was made almost a mile below the surface in an undersea crater and includes the fin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-19 Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that macrophages（巨噬细胞） -- white blood cells that play a key role in the immune response -- also help to both pr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-19 After almost four decades of absence from local waters, a special sea slug appears to be making a comeback, and marine scientists at UC Santa Barbara are eagerly anticipating its return. With its vivid blue and gold colors and its discovery by UC zo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-19 A newly published article Revision of the Afrotropical Mayrellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae), with the first record of Paramblynotus from Madagascar by Dr. Simon van Noort, from Natural History Department,Iziko South African Museum, and Dr. Matthew... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-19 A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles -- cars and small trucks -- via a combination of more efficie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-03-19 Of course, roosters crow（啼叫，报晓） with the dawn. But are they simply reacting to the environment, or do they really know what time of day it is? Researchers reporting on March 18 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have evidence that... 阅读全文>>