日期：2015-03-25 An experiment devised in Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics has for the first time demonstrated Albert Einstein's original conception of spooky action at a distance using a single particle. In a paper published in the journal Nature C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-25 A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that patients who go home after knee replacement and receive physical therapy at home do as well as those who go to an in-patient rehabilitation facility. There's a common belief tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-25 An experimental drug that attacks brain tumor tissue by crippling the cells' energy source called the mitochondria has passed early tests in animal models and human tissue cultures, say Houston Methodist scientists. As reported on the cover of the A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-25 University of Washington scientists have built a new nanometer-sized laser -- using the thinnest semiconductor available today -- that is energy efficient, easy to build and compatible with existing electronics. Lasers play essential roles in countl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-20 Today's rich variety of beetles may be due to an historically low extinction rate rather than a high rate of new species emerging, according to a new study. These findings were revealed by combing through the fossil record. Much of the work to under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-20 Electric vehicles are cool, research shows. Literally. A study in this week's Scientific Reports by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) and in China add more fuel to the already hot debate about whether electric vehicles are more environm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-20 Bats are not as stereotyped when they hunt as previously believed. New research shows that these flying mammals are capable of making ultra-fast decisions about how to attack their prey -- or maybe even call off the attack. It takes only millisecond... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-20 Gyroscopes measure rotation in everyday technologies, from unmanned aerial vehicles to cell phone screen stabilizers. Though many animals can move with more precision and accuracy than our best-engineered aircraft and technologies, gyroscopes are ra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-20 In 1996, a trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene -- soccer-ball-shaped spheres of 60 joined carbon atoms that exhibit special physical properties. Now, 20 years later, scientists have figure... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-20 A newly discovered crocodilian ancestor may have filled one of North America's top predator roles before dinosaurs arrived on the continent. Carnufex carolinensis, or the Carolina Butcher, was a 9-foot long, land-dwelling crocodylomorph that walked... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-19 Our opinions are affected by what our eyes are focusing on in the same instant we make moral decisions. Researchers at Lund University and other institutions have managed to influence people's responses to questions such as is murder defensible? by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-19 Researchers have defined a new bodily process in mice that may explain why blood oxygen levels are lower for patients with cystic fibrosis when they get a lung infection. Infected areas of the lung are not as capable as healthy tissue at adding oxyg... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-19 The most extensive land-based study of the Amazon to date reveals it is losing its capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. From a peak of two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year in the 1990s, the net uptake by the forest has halved and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-19 Plastic products advertised as biodegradable have recently emerged, but they sound almost too good to be true. Scientists have now found out that, at least for now, consumers have good reason to doubt these claims. In a new study appearing in the AC... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-19 Parasites can play an important role in driving cannibalism, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Leeds, Queen's University Belfast and Stellenbosch University in South Africa looked at cannibalism among freshwater shrimp in No... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-18 The language used in the switches that turn genes on and off has remained the same across millions of years of evolution, according to a new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings, which are published in the scient... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-18 For every parent who ever wondered what the heck their teens were thinking when they posted risky information or pictures on social media, a team of Penn State researchers suggests that they were not really thinking at all, or at least were not thin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-18 The 3-D printing revolution has changed the way we think about plastics. Everything from children's toys to office supplies to high-value laboratory equipment can be printed. The potential savings of producing goods at the household- and lab-scale i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-18 Graphene, a strong, lightweight carbon honeycombed structure that's only one atom thick, holds great promise for energy research and development. Recently scientists with the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures, and Transport (FIRST) Energy Fronti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-17 Obese patients with atrial fibrillation who lost at least 10 percent of their body weight were six times more likely to achieve long-term freedom from this common heart rhythm disorder compared to those who did not lose weight, according to a study... 阅读全文>>