日期：2013-01-14 Scientists at The University of Manchester have made a surprising finding after studying how tadpoles re-grow their tails which could have big implications for research into human healing and regeneration. It is generally appreciated that frogs and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-14 A new method of establishing hair and eye colour from modern forensic（法院的） samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Investigative Genetics. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-09 Speculation about how animals will respond to climate change due to global warming led University of Illinois researcher Patrick Weatherhead and his students to conduct a study of ratsnakes at three different latitudes -- Ontario, Illinois, and Texa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-09 In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers led by faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Baylor College of Medicine, has analyzed data on the impact of prolonged operational confinement（限制... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-09 Comets trailing wispy（纤细的） tails across the night sky are a beautiful byproduct of our solar system's formation, icy leftovers from 4.6 billion years ago when the planets coalesced from rocky rubble. The discovery by astronomers at the Universi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-09 Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy -- a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Since we view the Milky Way from the inside, its exact structure is difficult to deter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-09 A new Department of Energy research facility could help bring the U.S. closer to generating power from the winds and waters along America's coasts and help alleviate（减轻，缓和） a major hurdle for offshore wind and ocean power development. Will Sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-08 The question 'How do songbirds sing?' is addressed in a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Biology. High-field magnetic resonance imaging and micro-computed tomography（断层摄影术） have been used to construct stunning high... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-08 When it comes to solving puzzles, animals in captivity are, well, different animals than their wild brethren（同胞） . Testing animals' ability to solve new problems has been historically conducted on animals in captivity. Only recently has a shift... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-08 Chemists at the University of California, Davis, have engineered blue-green algae to grow chemical precursors（前体细胞） for fuels and plastics -- the first step in replacing fossil fuels as raw materials for the chemical industry. Most chemical fe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-07 A University of Alberta researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage（翅膀，羽毛） to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and turkeys. U of A Paleon... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-07 Technologically valuable ultrastable（超稳定的） glasses can be produced in days or hours with properties corresponding to those that have been aged for thousands of years, computational and laboratory studies have confirmed. Aging makes for higher... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-05 Many industrial plants depend on water vapor condensing on metal plates: In power plants, the resulting water is then returned to a boiler to be vaporized again; in desalination（脱盐） plants, it yields a supply of clean water. The efficiency of su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-05 The protoplanet（原行星） Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images were obtained during Dawn's year-long visit to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-05 Going against the flow is always a challenge, but some waterfall-climbing fish have adapted to their extreme lifestyle by using the same set of muscles for both climbing and eating, according to research published January 4 in the open access journa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-04 A science-inclined audience and wide array of communications tools make the Internet an excellent opportunity for scientists hoping to share their research with the world. But that opportunity is fraught with unintended consequences, according to a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-04 Two researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Oxford have demonstrated that hot chocolate tastes better in an orange or cream coloured cup than in a white or red one. The study adds to recent research demonstratin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-04 Bigger brains can make animals, well, brainier, but that boost in brain size and ability comes at a price. That's according to new evidence reported on January 3rd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, in which researchers artificially selec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-30 Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have figured out intimate details of how the hepatitis C virus（丙型肝炎病毒） takes over an invaded cell, a breakthrough that could point to way for new treatments for the virus. Hep C hi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-30 A new study, published Dec. 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne（媒介传播的） and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differences in income be... 阅读全文>>