日期：2016-02-22 As men age, their sexual function, vitality and strength can decline, but researchers had not yet established whether testosterone treatment is actually beneficial. Now, a team that included UF Health researchers has established testosterone's benef... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-22 Zika virus has been detected in the amniotic fluid of two pregnant women whose foetuses had been diagnosed with microcephaly, according to a study published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The report suggests that Zika virus can cross the p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-22 Researchers have shown how a bizarrely shaped black hole could cause Einstein's general theory of relativity, a foundation of modern physics, to break down. However, such an object could only exist in a universe with five or more dimensions. The res... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-22 Researchers have discovered a new species of extinct worm lizard in Texas and dubbed it the Lone Star lizard. The species -- the first known example of a worm lizard in Texas -- offers evidence that Texas acted as a subtropical refuge during one of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-20 In early 2013, the Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey found a direct link between hours spent sleeping and genes. 2013年初，英国萨里大学的睡眠研究中心发现，睡眠时长与基因之间存在直接联系。 Every cell in our bodies carries genetic inst... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-18 Access to clean water hasn't been the only health issue facing Flint. Since 2008, Michigan State University public health expert, Rick Sadler, has been mapping out areas of the city that have had almost no access to healthier food options and evalua... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-18 DNA results show that shelter workers are often mistaken when they label a dog as a pit bull, with potentially devastating consequences for the dogs, a new University of Florida study has found. Animal shelter staff and veterinarians are frequently... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-18 A multidisciplinary team which included participants from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has discovered that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens crossbred over 100,000 years ago. This puts back the previously first-known case of a h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-15 Why do we remember some events, places and things, but not others? Our brains prioritize rewarding memories over others, and reinforce them by replaying them when we are at rest, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, Ce... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-15 It's official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse's wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago. The confirmation comes from a new study by researchers from the Chinese A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-15 One in 15 adults has moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder in which a person's breathing is frequently interrupted during sleep -- as many as 30 times per hour. People with sleep apnea also often report problems with thinking such a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-15 New research shows that more than 5.5 million people die prematurely every year due to household and outdoor air pollution. More than half of deaths occur in two of the world's fastest growing economies, China and India. Power plants, industrial man... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-14 A recent study provides new evidence that larvae swim faster, straighter and more consistently in a common direction when together in a group. The research led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-14 Toxins from harmful algae are present in Alaskan marine food webs in high enough concentrations to be detected in marine mammals such as whales, walruses, sea lions, seals, porpoises and sea otters, according to new research from NOAA and its federa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-14 Asthma has been associated with a prolonged time to pregnancy and a decreased birth rate in a new clinical observation study. Published today (12 February, 2016) in the European Respiratory Journal, the research adds to previous studies that have id... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-14 Like people, ants have often fought over food and territory. But ants began fighting long before humans: at least 99 million years ago, according to Phillip Barden, a fossil insect expert who works in the Insect and Evolution Lab of Jessica L. Ware,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-14 Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have developed a new technology to detect disease biomarkers in the form of nucleic acids, the building blocks of all living organisms. The proof-of-concept study is currently published online in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-13 Children's singer and songwriter Raffi may have brought beluga whales into popular culture with his 1980 song Baby Beluga, but surprisingly little is actually known about the life and ecology of these elusive marine mammals that live in some of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-13 The case was the first announced recording of space-time oscillations -- gravitational waves, reaching the Earth after a catastrophe that happened far in the Universe. That confirms a significant prediction made in the special theory of relativity m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-03 A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self-catalytic growth process assisted by thermal decomposition of natural gas. According to the researc... 阅读全文>>