In a pioneering use of computed tomography (CT) scans, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming is in the process of killing off a major coral species in the Red Sea. A...
Happier youths are also healthier youths, according to Emily Shaffer-Hudkins and her team, from the University of South Florida in the US. Adolescents' positive emotions and moods, as well as their satisfaction with life, could be more important than...
Doctors in the Department of Pathology（病理学） at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have issued A Call to Action for the medical profession to catch up with the technology and business communities in the application of genomics（基因...
Conditions favourable to life may once have existed all over Mars. Detailed studies of minerals found inside craters（火山口） show that liquid water was widespread, not only in the southern highlands, but also beneath the northern plains. ESA's...
Are we born with an innate（先天的，固有的） sense of direction, or is it learned? Research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience（神经系统科学） suggests that the brain co...
Researchers at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have created a three-dimensional picture of an important protein that is involved in how HIV -- the virus responsible for AIDS -- is pro...
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...
