日期：2012-12-30 Industries across Europe are threatened with shutdown as European Union emission rules for Volatile Organic Compounds are tightened. Now an air cleaning invention from the University of Copenhagen has proven its ability to remove these compounds. An... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-30 Of the three telescopes carried by NASA's Swift satellite, only one captures cosmic light at energies similar to those seen by the human eye. Although small by the standards of ground-based observatories, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT)... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 Research using new technology shows that our ability to imitate facial expressions depends on learning that occurs through visual feedback. Studies of the chameleon（变色龙） effect confirm what salespeople, tricksters, and Lotharios have long known... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 Scientists have sequenced the genome of the fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii, an advancement that could help identify new targets for drugs to treat and prevent Pneumocystis pneumonia, a common and often deadly infection in immunocompromised（免疫功能... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 Children who make an effort to perform acts of kindness are happier and experience greater acceptance from their peers, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Riverside. Kimberly Schonert-Reic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 Contributing geometric（几何学的） and topological（拓扑的） analyses of micro-materials, University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician Robert Kusner aided experimental physicists at the University of Colorado (UC) by successfully explaining the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 In the period just before they went extinct, the American lions and saber-toothed cats that roamed North America in the late Pleistocene were living well off the fat of the land. That is the conclusion of the latest study of the microscopic wear pat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 A research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has discovered that massive earthquakes in the range of 8 to 8.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale have left clear ground scars in the central Himalayas. This ground-breakin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 Choosing the perfect wine may soon involve more than just knowing the perfect vintage（葡萄收获期） and chateau（城堡，别墅） . Differences in the microbes present on grapes even in different parts of the same vineyard may contribute to flavor fluct... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 Even on the evolutionary time scale of tens of millions of years there is such a thing as being in the right shape at the right time. An anatomical（解剖的） difference in the ability to seize the moment, according to a study led by Brown University... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 New York University biologists have identified how a vital（至关重要的） protein is loaded by others into the centromere（着丝粒） , the part of the chromosome that plays a significant role in cell division. Their findings shed new light on genome r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at Penn State and Rutgers University. The landscape early humans were inhabiting transitioned... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 Researchers from the University of Vigo, in collaboration with the Environmental Services Unit at the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (Cuba), have discovered two new species of Caribbean orchid. The Caribbean islands have been natural laboratori... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Social Networks Security Research Group in its Department of Information Systems Engineering has developed a novel method to predict how well or badly a student will perform in an academic course. The infor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 This fall, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and the National Academy of Sciences organized a colloquium（讨论会） that brought together more than 100 cosmologists, particle physicists and observational astrop... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun -- but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic（有活力的） than Earth. That's because the interiors of any terrestrial p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 Oceanographers at the University of Rhode Island have analyzed long-term data from several anemometers（风速计） in southern New England and found that average wind speeds have declined by about 15 percent at inland sites while speeds have remained... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest developments, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 dust detectors have been restored by scientists wit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 An oversized semi-trailer truck carrying NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for launch. This NASA and U.S. Geological Survey mission will continue a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-25 Little more than a decade ago, the United States imported much of its natural gas. Today, the nation is tapping into its own natural gas reserves and producing enough to support most of its current needs for heating and power generation, and is begi... 阅读全文>>