日期：2015-02-25 The Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest seem to inhabit separate worlds. The former is a vast expanse of sand and scrub stretching across the northern third of Africa, while the latter is a dense green mass of humid jungle covering northeast Sou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-23 If you feel a pang of guilty pleasure when you read celebrity tittle-tattle, don't be too hard on yourself. 要是你在看明星八卦时会感到一阵罪恶的快感，无需过分自责。 Hearing juicy gossip about famous people apparently fires up the brain's pleasure ce... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-16 Late sleepers more sedentary and find it harder to exercise, study found. Night owls also make up more reasons not to be active. 研究表明，晚睡的人都有久坐不动的习惯，很难坚持运动。夜猫子们也为自己不运动找了很多理由。 Adults should take 150 minutes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-16 Scientists are teaming up to use satellite data to target deadly parasites to help predict patterns of parasitic diseases such as malaria, worms and hydatids. Project leader Professor Archie Clements, from The Australian National University, said th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-16 Microbes, small and ancient life forms, play a key role in maintaining life on Earth. As has often been pointed out, without microbes, we'd die -- without us, most microbes would get along just fine. Now, a study by scientists from the Florida campu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-16 Darwin's finches, inhabiting the Galpagos archipelago and Cocos island, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution. A team of scientists from Uppsala University and Princeton University has now shed light on the evol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-16 UK commuters spend an average of about 1.5 hours a day at the wheel. Road vehicles in particular are known to emit polluting nanoparticles which contribute to respiratory and heart diseases. Now, researchers at the University of Surrey have found th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-16 French artist Paul Gauguin is well known for his colorful paintings of Tahitian life -- such as the painting that sold recently for nearly $300 million -- but he also was a highly experimental printmaker. Little is known, however, about the techniqu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-12 Many a woman has watched in disbelief as their partner inhales their food minutes after sitting down to dinner. Now Korean researchers have discovered why: men and women actually chew differently. 许多女性看到自己的伴侣坐下几分钟便把饭菜统统吞下时都... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-11 How did zebras get their stripes? It's hard to get a black-and-white answer. 斑马身上的条纹是如何形成的？我们很难得到确切的答案。 Some scientists say the stripes are a form of camouflage that protects zebras from hungry lions. Others say they're key... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-11 Scientists studied more than 1,000 healthy joggers and non-joggers over a 12-year period. 科学家们对1000多名身体健康的慢跑者和不跑步的人进行研究，追踪时间超过12年。 Those who jogged at a steady pace for less than two and a half hours a week were lea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-08 Binge TV-watching is associated with loneliness and depression, a study has shown. 研究发现，沉迷于电视与孤独和抑郁有关。 Those who spend hours immersed in back-to-back episodes of their favourite TV series really are likely to be sad, according to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-08 We've all been told you should never judge a book by its cover. Now one creative agency has found a way to prevent that from ever happening by creating a cover that judges you. 常言道，仅凭书的封面无法判断一本书的好坏。如今，一家创意公司就找到了一种... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-02-08 A compound found in eggs makes people much more generous, new research suggests. 最新研究表明，鸡蛋中含有的化合物可以让人变得更慷慨。 Scientists say that tryptophan, an amino acid found in some foods, can change our behavior. In experiments they fou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-29 With the creative class on the rise, many businesses are trying to capitalize on imagination and innovation. But when it comes to creative juices, some societies have a faster flow than others. That's because, as new research from Concordia Universi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-29 Antioxidants are natural food ingredients that protect cells from harmful influences. Their main task is to neutralize so-called free radicals which are produced in the process of oxidation and which are responsible for cell degeneration. Scientists... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-29 University of Adelaide researchers have made a surprising discovery in the aquifers beneath the Western Australian desert, which challenges the traditional Darwinian view of evolution. A team, lead by Dr Simon Tierney, discovered that a species of b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-29 University of Alberta paleontologists including PhD student Tetsuto Miyashita, former MSc student Lida Xing and professor Philip Currie have discovered a new species of a long-necked dinosaur from a skeleton found in China. The findings have been pu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-28 Most young adults might assume they have years before needing to worry about their cholesterol. But new findings from researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute suggest that even slightly high cholesterol levels in otherwise healthy adults... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-01-28 A new analysis has found that many women with breast cancer lack knowledge about their illness, with minority patients less likely than white patients to know and report accurate information about their tumors' characteristics. Published early onlin... 阅读全文>>