Hurricane Julia intensified rapidly overnight and is now a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale and NASA's Aqua, Terra and TRMM satell...
The millions of middle-aged and older adults who suffer from insomnia have a new drug-free prescription(药方,指示) for a more restful night's sleep. R...
Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That's what other Japanese people would do, a...
Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio have found a gene that causes high levels of bad cholesterol(胆固醇)...
Atrial fibrillation(心房颤动) is a heart disorder that affects more than two million Americans, and is considered a key contributor to blood clots(血栓) and...
Glaciers can help actively growing mountains become higher by protecting them from erosion, according to a University of Arizona-led research team. Th...
Carbon nanotubes — those tiny particles poised(镇定的,平衡的) to revolutionize electronics, medicine, and other areas — are much bigger in the s...
Designers of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets(小配件,小工具) that respond to human...
The lab of Kevin Foskett, PhD, the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found a possible new ta...
17 September 2010: Research at the University of Liverpool could lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses of liver damage. The team used paracetamol...