日期：2016-04-09 A new study has found that people with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) - characterised by explosive bouts of rage - are twice as likely to have been infected by a parasite found in cat faeces. 最新研究发现，间歇爆发性精神障碍（IED）患者（以突... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-08 Sequencing the genomes of hundreds of strains of the wine yeast S. cerevisiae has revealed little genetic diversity and high levels of inbreeding. In many cases, yeast strains sold by different companies were almost genetically identical. The result... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-08 Simulations are a popular tool to study physical processes that cannot be investigated experimentally in detail. For example, scientists are challenged to investigate physical processes in materials since their properties are determined by the inter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-08 Mecysmaucheniidae spiders, which live only in New Zealand and southern South America, dont look like much. They are drab and tiny spiders that hunt for prey on the ground. But researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-08 Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and collaborators at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have identified a molecular marker in normal breast tissue that can predict a womans risk for developing bre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-08 The pace of evolution is typically measured in millions of years, as random, individual mutations accumulate over generations, but researchers at Cornell and Bar-Ilan Universities have uncovered a new mechanism for mutation in primates that is rapid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-08 Money could buy happiness if your purchases fit your personality, according to a new study that examines nearly 77,000 actual UK bank spending transactions. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychologica... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-06 Children are far from meeting national guidelines for physical activity, and girls are at greatest risk of falling short of recommendations according to a study measuring the physical activity of 453 schoolchildren in Massachusetts during a one-week... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-06 When NASAs New Horizons sped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, it took the best-ever pictures of the rocky world s surface, giving us new insight into its geology, composition and atmosphere. These stunning images are the most famous result of New Horizo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-06 A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to researchers at the Energy Departments National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The research cou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-05 Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queens University Belfast have recently released results that may have answered one of ancient historys greatest enigmas: Where did Hannibal cross t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-05 The combined effects of pesticides and parasites threaten wildlife populations worldwide (e.g. amphibians, honeybees). Pesticides are predicted to exacerbate the effects of parasites on their hosts by reducing the hosts ability to defend against par... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-05 A fruit called the noni -- now hyped for a vast array of unproven health benefits -- is distinctly unhealthy for the fruit fly, which has fascinated geneticists for a century. For the species of Drosophila that lives in labs around the world, noni s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-05 In the first large randomized trial to directly compare two approaches to preventing a type of abnormal heart rhythm that is the most common complication of heart surgery, the two strategies--controlling heart rate and controlling heart rhythm--perfo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-05 A daily dose of vitamin D3 improves heart function in people with chronic heart failure, a five-year University of Leeds research project has found. Dr Klaus Witte, from the School of Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-04 The sounds you make while chewing have a significant effect on the amount of food you eat, a new study has found. The results suggest that people are likely to consume less if they can hear themselves eating. 最新研究表明，人们在咀嚼东西时发出的声音... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map of archaic ancestry--published March 28 in Current Biology--suggests that many bloodlines around the world, particularly of South Asian descent, may actually be a bit more Denisov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 New groundbreaking research shows that with improved fishing approaches -- compared to business as usual -- the majority of the worlds wild fisheries could be at healthy levels in just 10 years and global fish populations could double by 2050. The s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Bacteria are the most abundant form of life on Earth, and they are capable of living in diverse habitats ranging from the surface of rocks to the insides of our intestines. Over millennia, these adaptable little organisms have evolved a variety of s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-29 Tardigrades, also known as moss piglets or water bears, are eight-legged microscopic animals that have long fascinated scientists for their ability to survive extremes of temperature, pressure, lack of oxygen, and even radiation exposure. Now, a stu... 阅读全文>>