A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the University of California, Berkeley, is publishing this week the first genome sequence of an amphibian（两栖动物） , the African clawed（有爪或螯的）...
Martial arts（武术） could be the key to helping osteoporosis（骨质疏松症） sufferers fall more safely. A study published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes has found that martial arts training can likely be carried out safely....
A new discovery raises hope that autism（孤独症，自闭症） may be more easily diagnosed and that its effects may be more reversible（可逆的，可撤销的） than previously thought. In a new study appearing online in The FASEB Journal (h...
The skull of a juvenile（青少年的，幼稚的） sauropod（蜥脚类动物） dinosaur, rediscovered in the collections of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, illustrates（阐明，说明） that some sauropod species went through...
Two species of damselfish（小热带鱼） may look identicalnot to mention drab浅褐色 to the human eye. But that's because, in comparison to（与相比） the fish, all of us are essentially colorblind（色盲的） . A new study published onl...
Ancient DNA retrieved重新取回 from extinct horse species from around the world has challenged one of the textbook examples of evolution the fossil record of the horse family Equidae over the past 55 million years. The study, published today in the P...
Trying to do that for years A man went to the police office wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before. You will get your chance in court. said the Desk Sergeant. No, no, no. said the man. I want to know how he...
Scientists have discovered what they believe is a genetic cause of severe obesity in children. 科学家发现儿童重度肥胖是由基因引起的。 The team concluded that the loss of a key segment of DNA can be to blame. It said the findings might improve diagno...
A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults（小火鸡） could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner from the Dresden University of Technology in Germany and his te...
From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online on November 5th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The findings suggest that infants begin picking...
