日期：2013-01-24 Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in Madagascar could fuel the spread of lemur（狐猴） parasites and the diseases they carry. By combining data on six parasite species from ongoing surveys of lemur health with weather data and other... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an automatic slipperiness（滑溜） detection system for cars. The system helps drivers to avoid personal injuries and damage to vehicles in slippery road conditions. Thanks to the system, vehicle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 It isn't life on Mars, but researchers have found a rich diversity of microbial life and chemicals in the ephemeral（短暂的） habitat of a storm cloud, according to a study published January 23 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tina antl Temkiv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-23 In a paper published in Nature Communications on January 22, 2013, a team of paleontologists（古生物学者） including Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's (NHM) Dinosaur Institute, has discovered a way to d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-23 New University at Buffalo research demonstrates how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in life. The UB findings, published in Schizophrenia Research, test the hyp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-23 When people wash their hands with antibacterial soap, most don't think about where the chemicals contained in that soap end up. University of Minnesota engineering researchers do. A new University of Minnesota study determined that the common antiba... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-23 Wildlife Conservation Society scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs（獏） -- the strange forest and grassland-dwelling herbivore（食草动物） with the trunk-like snout -- living in a network of remote national parks spann... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-23 Following hospitalization for heart attacks, heart failure, or pneumonia（肺炎） , patients are at high risk of being readmitted（再次入院） for a broad spectrum of medical conditions in the month following hospital discharge, research at Yale Schoo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-20 Researchers still have much to learn about the volcanism that shaped our planet's early history. New evidence from a team led by Carnegie's Frances Jenner demonstrates that some of the tectonic（构造的） processes driving volcanic activity, such as... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-20 The Arctic sea ice has not only declined over the past decade but has also become distinctly thinner and younger. Researchers are now observing mainly thin, first-year ice floes which are extensively covered with melt ponds in the summer months wher... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-20 With more than 40 million people living under exceptional drought conditions in East Africa, the ability to make accurate predictions of drought has never been more important. In the aftermath of widespread famine（饥荒） and a humanitarian crisis c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-20 Longer, warmer growing seasons associated with a changing climate are altering growing conditions in temperate（温和的） rain forests, but not all plant species will be negatively affected, according to research conducted by the U.S. Forest Service'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-20 In the coming decades, climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health. Intense rainstorms and floods will become more common, and existing risks to th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Swiss cheese plants' iconic leaves help them to avoid stress, according to a US scientist. 一位美国科学家发现，蓬莱蕉的标志性叶子能帮助它们远离压力。 The monster leaves can reach up to 90cm long Their familiar hole-riddled leaves allow the plants to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Light passing through the body and into the womb has an important role in the developing eye, US researchers have discovered. 美国研究人员发现，光穿透人体进入子宫对于胎儿眼睛发育有重要作用。 A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that mice... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Weight loss following infection with intestinal worms is the body's way of fighting off the parasites, University of Manchester researchers have said. 曼彻斯特大学的研究人员称，人体感染肠蠕虫后通过减轻体重这种方式对抗寄生虫。 The immune system hijac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Gas separation is crucial for many industrial processes including obtaining nitrogen or oxygen from air and purifying natural gas or hydrogen. Currently, the most energy efficient method for separating gases involves polymer membranes, however, most... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have made a large step towards the understanding of how human genes are regulated. In a new study, published in the journal Cell, they identified the DNA sequences that bind to over four hundred proteins... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Wild animals may be a key contributor to the continuing spread of African sleeping sickness, new research published in PLOS Computational Biology shows. The West African form of the disease, also known as Gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis（非... 阅读全文>>