日期：2014-11-06 A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, study finds that nonprofit organizations aiming to protect biodiversity show little evidence of responding to economic signals, which could limit the effectiveness of future conservation efforts. The study is pu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 The puzzle pieces of tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of earth are not rigid and don't fit together as nicely as we were taught in high school. A study published in the journal Geology by Corn Kreemer, an associate professor at the Unive... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 Testing of study participants who wore head-mounted display systems (Google glasses) found that the glasses created a partial peripheral vision obstruction, according to a study in the November 5 issue of JAMA. Interest in wearable head-mounted disp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-05 The French are often accused of being grumpy and dismissive. But Britons and Americans are also hardwired to be miserable, scientists claim. 法国人经常被指脾气暴躁、目中无人。然而科学家称，英国人和美国人天生就注定要比别人过得悲惨。 Despite stable go... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-05 Today's natural resource manager tending to the health of a stream in Louisiana needs to look upstream. Way upstream -- like Montana. Michigan State University (MSU) scientists have invented a way to more easily manage the extensive nature of stream... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-05 Ever walked into a hotel room and smelled old cigarette smoke? While the last smoker may have left the room hours or even days ago, the lingering odors -- resulting from noxious residue that clings to walls, carpets, furniture, or dust particles --... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-05 Scientists have identified a mechanism that could turn out to be a big contributor to warming in the Arctic region and melting sea ice. The research was led by scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berk... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-05 Two USC researchers have proposed a link between string field theory and quantum mechanics that could open the door to using string field theory -- or a broader version of it, called M-theory -- as the basis of all physics. This could solve the myst... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-05 About 60 percent of the increase in the observed prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in Danish children appears to be largely due to changes in reporting practices, according to a study published online by JAMA Pediatrics. The prevalence... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-05 A Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) led team has developed a simple coat of armor to encase small batteries, rendering them harmless if they are ever swallowed. Children, particularly infants and young toddlers, can ingest these batteries, leading... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-30 Individual differences in moving activity in a novel environment are linked to individual differences in vulnerability to angling, according to an experimental study completed at the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Game and Fisheries R... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-30 A common protein plays a different role than previously thought in the opening and closing of channels that let ions flow in and out of our cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report. Those channels are critical to life, as having the right concentr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-30 New multi-scenario modelling of world human population has concluded that even stringent fertility restrictions or a catastrophic mass mortality would not bring about large enough change this century to solve issues of global sustainability. Publish... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-30 Financial experts do not make higher returns on their own investments than untrained investors, according to research by a Michigan State University business scholar. The first-of-its-kind study analyzed the private portfolios of mutual fund manager... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-30 A solution to one of the key challenges in the development of quantum technologies has been proposed by University of Sussex physicists. In a paper published today (28 October) in Nature Communications, Professor Barry Garraway and colleagues show h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-30 Every day for more than 20 years, an average of 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas across 75 countries have been degraded by salt, according to a study by UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-30 Experiments on the DIII-D tokamak that General Atomics operates for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have demonstrated the ability of lithium injections to transiently double the temperature and pressure at the edge of the plasma and delay the on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-28 Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a new way to use stem cells in the fight against brain cancer. A team led by neuroscientist Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, who recently demonstrated the value of stem cells... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Negative feelings about one's own weight, known as internalized weight bias, influence the success people have after undergoing weight loss surgery, according to research appearing in the journal Obesity Surgery, published by Springer. The study, fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 The rate of non-Hispanic white youth diagnosed with type 1 diabetes increased significantly from 2002 to 2009 in all but the youngest age group of children, according to a new study published today in the journal Diabetes. The study included data fr... 阅读全文>>