日期：2012-08-15 Two researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have deciphered a mouse's retina's neural code and coupled this information to a novel prosthetic（假体的） device to restore sight to blind mice. The researchers say they have also cracked the code f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-15 A novel virus has been identified as the possible cause of a common but mysterious disease that kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the world, thanks to research led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) -... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-14 Engineers at Oregon State University have made a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce electricity directly from wastewater, opening the door to a future in which waste treatment plants not only will power themselv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-14 It may not make chocolate one of your five a day -- but scientists have found a way to replace up to 50 percent of its fat content with fruit juice. University of Warwick chemists have taken out much of the cocoa butter and milk fats that go into ch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-14 Leaving your TV show midway because you had to leave your home will no longer happen as you can now 'pull' the programme on your TV screen onto your tablet and continue watching it seamlessly（无缝地） . You can also watch the same TV show or movie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-14 Gamma-ray photons（光子） seen emanating（放射） from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing（有趣的） possibility that dark-matter particles are annihilating（消灭） each other in space, according to research submitte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-10 A freshwater snail declared extinct in 2000 was recently rediscovered in the Cahaba River by a University of Alabama graduate student. Details of the discovery by Nathan Whelan, a doctoral student in UA's department of biological sciences, will publ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-10 For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics（板块构造论） existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates benea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-10 Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals（准晶体） have provided convincing evidence that they arrived on Earth from outer space. Writing in IOP Publishing's journal Report... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-10 During the Neolithic Age（新石器时代） (approximately 10000-6000 BCE), early man evolved from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, living in larger, permanent settlements with a variety of domesticated animals and plant life. This transiti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-09 Contrary to popular belief, purified drinking water from home faucets（水龙头） contains millions to hundreds of millions of widely differing bacteria per gallon, and scientists have discovered a plausible（貌似可信的） way to manipulate those popul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-09 Innovative problem solving requires trying many different solutions. That's true for humans, and now Michigan State University researchers show that it's true for hyenas（土狼） , too. The study, published in the current issue of the Proceedings of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-09 Climate change is causing a late wake-up call from hibernation（冬眠） for a species of Rocky Mountain ground squirrel and the effect is deadly. A University of Alberta-led international research team examined data on a population of Columbian groun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-09 For much of the year drought has been plaguing American grasslands. But a recent study found that grasses do not appear to be losing the turf war against climate when it comes to surviving with little precipitation. The Kansas State University-led s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-09 Washington State University researchers have documented an underappreciated suite of players in global warming: dams, the water reservoirs behind them, and surges of greenhouse gases as water levels go up and down. Bridget Deemer, a doctoral student... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-08 Compared with open farmland, wooded shade plantations（种植园） that produce coffee and chocolate promote greater bird diversity, although a new University of Utah study says forests remain the best habitat for tropical birds. The findings suggest t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-08 Diseased trees in forests may be a significant new source of methane（甲烷） that causes climate change, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry Environmental Studies in Geophysical Research Letters. Sixty trees sampled at Yale Myers... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-08 A new disinfectant（消毒剂） , Akwaton, that works at extremely low concentrations could be used in healthcare settings to help control persistent hospital-acquired infections such as Clostridium difficile. The study is reported online in the Journa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-08 Cities count the number of cars on the road in order to plan everything from the timing of stoplights to road repairs. But the in-road metal detectors that do the counting can make errors -- most often by registering that a car is present when one i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-08 American adults of a normal weight with new-onset diabetes die at a higher rate than overweight/obese adults with the same disease, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. The study, to be published in the Aug. 7 issue of JAMA, found that no... 阅读全文>>