日期：2012-09-11 A computer is being taught to interpret human emotions based on lip pattern, according to research published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. The system could improve the way we interact with computers and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-11 There is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world's demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-11 Study ties marital strife（冲突，争吵） , heart disease a lousy marriage might literally make you sick. Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, researchers reported Monday. A lousy marriage might li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-10 Northwestern University researchers have broken a world record by creating two new synthetic materials with the greatest amount of surface areas reported to date. Named NU-109 and NU-110, the materials belong to a class of crystalline nanostructure... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-10 A team of researchers from Arizona State University have found that warming resulting from megapolitan expansion is seasonally dependent, with greatest warming occurring during summer and least during winter. Among the most practical ways to combat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-10 Tiny sea creatures called rhabdopleurids reside on the ocean floor, building homes of collagen（胶原） on the shells of dead clams. Rhabdopleurid colonies are small, and the critters are by no means the dominant animals in their ecosystem. But they... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-10 A good violin depends not only on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. The Swiss wood researcher Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technolo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-07 Can a computer read an online blog and understand it? Several Concordia computer scientists are helping to get closer to that goal. Leila Kosseim, associate professor in Concordia's Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, and a recently-graduat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-07 An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Yale University schools of medicine, have identified a form of autism with epilepsy（癫痫） that may potentially be treatable with a common nutrit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-07 Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu sets a world new record by drilling down and obtains rock samples from deeper than 2,111 meters below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The Japan Agency for Marin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-07 Adding the monoclonal（单克隆的） antibody bavituximab（巴微昔单抗） to docetaxel（多西他赛） chemotherapy doubles overall response rate and improves progression-free survival and overall survival in late-stage non-squamous, non-small cell lung canc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-07 More women than ever are in the workforce, they are starting business at twice the rate of men, and about a third of working women earn more than their spouses. The male oriented world of financial services is taking note. The number of high net wor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 New data from the South Pole Telescope indicates that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected. Extremely bright, active galaxies formed and full... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 Attention men: The day may be coming soon when you can take your own birth control pill with no side effects, according to a study done by a group of scientists that includes a Texas AM University researcher. Qinglei Li, an assistant professor in Te... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 Only about 1 percent of the human genome contains gene regions that code for proteins, raising the question of what the rest of the DNA is doing. Scientists have now begun to discover the answer: About 80 percent of the genome is biochemically activ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 Will the tiger go the way of the passenger pigeon or be saved from extinction like the American bison? The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today released a list of Asian species that are at a conservation crossroads calling for governments to ta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 New research on vegetables and aging gives mothers another reason to say I told you so. It found that eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old. On measures of mental... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 Increasing fluid intake by about a liter per day appears to have no negative effects in healthy older men, Dutch researchers report. Dr. Mark G. Spigt of Maastricht University and colleagues note in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 Straightening children's crooked（弯曲的） teeth with braces may improve their smile but it is no guarantee of happiness and improved self esteem. A 20-year study by scientists in Britain that looked at the impact of braces on more than 300 children... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-05 There has been an increase in the number of non-smokers being diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer, according to new findings. The report, which will be presented today (4 September 2012) at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in... 阅读全文>>