日期：2015-03-04 Limp or firm, your handshake conveys subliminal social cues. Now, research reveals it also transmits chemical signals that could explain why the greeting evolved in the first place. In the study, published in the journal eLife, scientists from Israe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Nature is on the move. As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves, species and ecosystems are moving in response. This poses a fundamental challenge to conservation organizations--how do you conserve something that won't stay still? A new pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 New research has highlighted the value of a modern logging technique for maintaining biodiversity in tropical forests that are used for timber production. Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of K... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 A protein that helps embryonic stem cells (ESCs) retain their identity also promotes DNA repair, according to a study in The Journal of Cell Biology. The findings raise the possibility that the protein, Sall4, performs a similar role in cancer cells... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which are made from carbon-containing materials, have the potential to revolutionize future display technologies, making low-power displays so thin they'll wrap or fold around other structures, for instance. Co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study from UNC School of Medicine researchers reveals that mammals are genetically more like their dads. Specifically, the research shows that although we inherit equal amounts of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Recreating the violent conditions of Earth's formation, scientists are learning more about how iron vaporizes and how this iron rain affected the formation of Earth and Moon. The study is published March 2 in Nature Geoscience. We care about when ir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-03-03 Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe -- both in the formation of planets and new stars. But dust was not there from the beginning and the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now an international team of astronomers, led by res... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-27 The miniweight boxing title of the animal world belongs to the mantis shrimp, a cigar-sized crustacean whose front claws can deliver an explosive 60-mile-per-hour blow akin to a bullet leaving the barrel of a gun. Now, a Duke University study of 80... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-27 The use of animals in experimental research has soared at leading US laboratories in recent years, finds research published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. This is despite growing public opposition to animal experimentation, mounting eviden... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-27 Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center and New York University have demonstrated that a specialized DNA-binding protein called CTCF is essential for the precise expression of genes that control the body plan of a developing embryo. The findings, t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-27 The spread of exotic and aggressive strains of a plant fungus is presenting a serious threat to wheat production in the UK, according to research published in Genome Biology. The research uses a new surveillance technique that could be applied inter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-27 It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also remember things incorrectly, with devastating consequences in the classroom, courtroom, and other areas of life. Now, researchers show for the fi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-27 Scientists have discovered the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time. The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the University of Arizona announ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-25 At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the big theme was the Internet of things -- the idea that everything in the human environment, from kitchen appliances to industrial equipment, could be equipped with sensors and processors that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-25 Despite notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements function in much the same way as modern cities, according to new findings by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Colorado Boulder. Previous r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-25 Biodiversity, including small predators such as dragonflies and other aquatic bugs that attack and consume parasites, may improve the health of amphibians, according to a team of researchers. Amphibians have experienced marked declines in the wild a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-25 Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have invented a novel pretreatment technology that could cut the cost of biofuels production by about 30 percent or more by dramatically reducing the amount of enzymes needed to breakdown the ra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-25 Carrying a full cup of coffee from the kitchen to the dining room can be precarious for a sleepy-eyed caffeine addict who might accidentally send a wave of java sloshing over the rim. But add a bit of foam to the top and the trip becomes easier. Sci... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-25 Dendrites -- the microscopic, pin-like fibers that cause rechargeable batteries to short circuit -- create fire hazards and can limit the ability of batteries to power our smart phones and store renewable energy for a rainy day. Now a new electrolyt... 阅读全文>>