日期：2012-11-07 Heart failure patients with a condition called heart block derive significant benefit from cardiac resynchronization（再同步） therapy (CRT), according to the results of the Block HF clinical trial, presented November 6 at the American Heart Associa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-07 A world-famous mathematician responsible for solving one of the subject's most challenging problems has published his latest work as a University of Leicester research report. This follows the visit that famed mathematician Yuri Matiyasevich made to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 Biologists at the University of Rochester have determined how blind mole rats fight off cancer -- and the mechanism differs from what they discovered three years ago in another long-lived and cancer-resistant mole rat species, the naked mole rat. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 A new study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmospheric Science uses Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data to investigate deformation prior to the eruption of active volcanoes in Indonesia's... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 The largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the past millions of years took place in Indonesia 74,000 years ago and researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute can now link the colossal（巨大的） eruption with the global climate and the effects on early... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 Warmer temperatures cause greater reduction in the adult sizes of aquatic（水生的） animals than in land- dwellers（居民） in a new study by scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Liverpool. The research published Nov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 Global warming could cause frequent and severe failures of the Indian summer monsoon in the next two centuries, new research suggests. The effects of these unprecedented changes would be extremely detrimental（不利的） to India's economy which relie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 A whale that is almost unknown to science has been seen for the first time after two individuals -- a mother and her male calf -- were stranded and died on a New Zealand beach. A report in the November 6th issue of Current Biology offers the first c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-06 A cockatoo（风头鹦鹉） from a species not known to use tools in the wild has been observed spontaneously making and using tools for reaching food and other objects. A Goffin's cockatoo called 'Figaro', that has been reared in captivity and lives nea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-05 Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system's planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems throughout the Milky Way, the formative stages of our own... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-05 California isn't going to face a superstorm like Hurricane Sandy because the Pacific Ocean is too cold to feed that kind of weather system. But that doesn't mean California won't see extreme weather, say researchers from the University of California... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-05 Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Ruhr-Universitt Bochum (RUB) have found through spectroscopic（光谱学的） investigations on a hydrogen-producing enzyme that the environment of the catalytic sit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-05 Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid（小行星） belts of just the right mass, according to a study by Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-05 For decades, bigger is better has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that carried 2,000 t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-05 Partisans beware! Some of your most cherished political attitudes may be malleable（可塑的） ! Researchers report that simply answering three why questions on an innocuous（无伤大雅的） topic leads people to be more moderate in their views on an oth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-02 New research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre（音色，音质） . Mounya Elhilali, of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues have used mathematical models based on experiments in b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-02 Tendon（腱） injuries affect athletic horses at all levels. Researchers from the University of Connecticut are studying the use of stem cells in treating equine（马的） tendon injuries. Their findings were published Oct. 16 in the Journal of Animal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-02 Sea levels are rising faster than expected from global warming, and University of Colorado geologist Bill Hay has a good idea why. The last official IPCC report in 2007 projected a global sea level rise between 0.2 and 0.5 meters by the year 2100. B... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-02 An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, speaking words in Korean that can be readily understood by those who know the language. The elephant accomplishes this in a most unusual way: he vocalizes with his trunk in his mouth. The elep... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-01 The development of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is much like that of children without ASD at 6 months of age, but differs afterwards. That's the main finding of the largest prospective, longitudinal study to date comparing children w... 阅读全文>>