Researchers in Germany have used a magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI核磁共振成像 ) technique called continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) to map cerebral（大脑的） blood flow patterns in schizophrenic（精神分裂症的） patients qui...
A group of Japanese researchers, who publish their findings today Thursday, 20 May in IOP Publishing's Bioinspiration Biomimetics（生物模仿学） , have succeeded in building a fully functional replica（复制品） model an ornithopter（扑翼飞...
It is well established that exposure to ionizing radiation（电离辐射） can result in mutations or other genetic damage that cause cells to turn cancerous. Now a new study led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley...
The onset（开始，进攻） of summer in England has been advancing since the mid 1950s, research from a pair of University of Sheffield geographers（地理学者） has shown. The investigations, conducted by Amy Kirbyshire, a former undergradua...
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...
