日期：2015-11-19 Peering into darkness can strike fear into the hearts of some, but a new space telescope will soon peer into the darkness of near space (within a few thousand light years of Earth). Scientists are using the telescope to seek answers related to the f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-18 Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have made a major breakthrough by making a porous liquid - with the potential for a massive range of new technologies including 'carbon capture'. Researchers in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineerin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-18 If you add quantum dots - nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair - to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles. However, a group of researchers at Vanderbilt Uni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-18 Researchers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known. The pulsar lies in the outskirts of the Ta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-13 The anticipated melting of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be slowed by two big factors that are largely overlooked in current computer models, according to a new study. The findings, published online in Nature Communications, suggest tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-13 Almost every person has an appreciation for natural environments. In addition, most people find healthy or pristine locations with high biodiversity more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing than environmentally degraded locations. In a study which... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-13 The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-13 An international team of astronomers, led researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Australian National University, have identified some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, which could contain vital clues about the early Universe, includin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-13 Despite being discovered 20 years ago, very little is known about brown dwarfs - notably why they fail to grow into stars. Scientists say part of the answer probably lies in the physics of how dense plasmas merge inside them. Now researchers, led by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-13 Gradual melting of winter snow helps feed water to farms, cities and ecosystems across much of the world, but this resource may soon be critically imperiled. In a new study, scientists have identified snow-dependent drainage basins across the northe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-13 A glacier in northeast Greenland that holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 18 inches has come unmoored from a stabilizing sill and is crumbling into the North Atlantic Ocean. Losing mass at a rate of 5 billion tons per year, gl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-04 This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry was given to three scientists who each focused on one piece of the DNA repair puzzle. Now a new study, reported online Oct. 28 in the journal Nature, reports the discovery of a new class of DNA repair enzyme. Whe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-04 A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. The research challenges the conclusions of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-04 MIT engineers have designed magnetic protein nanoparticles that can be used to track cells or to monitor interactions within cells. The particles, described today in Nature Communications, are an enhanced version of a naturally occurring, weakly mag... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-04 The world's record for the smallest land snail is broken once again. A minute shell with an average diameter of 0.7 mm was found in Malaysian Borneo by a team of Dutch and Malaysian biologists along with another 47 new species of greatly varying siz... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-11-04 Diamonds may not be as rare as once believed, but this finding in a new Johns Hopkins University research report won't mean deep discounts at local jewelry stores. Diamond formation in the deep Earth, the very deep Earth, may be a more common proces... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-10-30 Breast cancer rates among African American women in the United States have continued to increase, converging with rates among white women and closing a gap that had existed for decades. The finding is part of Breast Cancer Statistics, 2015, publishe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-10-30 The 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in recent years, said scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). On Oct. 2, 2015, the ozone hole expanded to its peak of 28.2 million squar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-10-30 Using e-cigarettes is related to problematic drinking, according to new research published in Addictive Behaviors. In a study involving around 1400 people, researchers also found that more women than men use e-cigarettes socially, opposite to patter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-10-30 State-of-the-art molecular analysis of dust samples from the International Space Station (ISS) has been employed to reveal new information about some of the potential bacterial agents present in the astronauts' space environment. The research, publi... 阅读全文>>