New research from North Carolina State University finds that older adults who play video games report higher levels of emotional well-being. Researchers asked 140 people aged 63 and older how often they played video games, if at all（如果某事真会...
In collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens of Madrid and the Slovenian Forestry Institute, researchers in the Basque Country have documented two new species of Hydnum, commonly known as ox tongue mushrooms, as part of their study published in th...
The tropics（热带地区） are home to an extraordinary diversity of insect species. How great is it, exactly? We do not know, but today, researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History published a study on tropical beetles that can hel...
Exposing pregnant mice to low doses of the chemical tributyltin（三丁基锡） -- which is used in marine hull（船体，外壳） paint and PVC plastic -- can lead to obesity for multiple generations without subsequent exposure, a UC Irvine stud...
Over the last half decade, it has become increasingly clear that the normal gastrointestinal（胃肠的） (GI) bacteria play a variety of very important roles in the biology of human and animals. Now Vic Norris of the University of Rouen, France, a...
University of British Columbia and Oxford University researchers have revealed the secrets of survival of an endangered population of African elephants in the unforgiving Sahara desert. The animals have the largest migration among elephants, the stud...
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...
