Test performance can improve dramatically if students are offered rewards just before they are given standardized tests and if they receive the incent...
Obese children show greater exposure than nonobese children to a phthalate（邻苯二甲酸酯） , a chemical used to soften plastics in some children's toys an...
In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite（陨星） across the state of Chihuahua. More t...
A team of researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and four other institutions have found that young children with documented or likely allergi...
How single cell organisms like bacteria manage to react to their environment is not yet completely understood. Together with colleagues from Japan, Dr...
A multi-national team led by USC with researchers hailing from the U.S., China, Pakistan and Israel has developed a system of transmitting data using ...
In testosterone（睾丸素） -deficient men, major weight loss was an added benefit of testosterone replacement therapy for most of the patients who participa...
Over 15 years ago, researchers linked a defect in a gene called survival motor neuron -- or SMN -- with the fatal disease spinal muscular atrophy（肌肉萎缩...
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have identified a catalyst（催化剂） that provides the same level of efficiency in microbial fuel ...
After 10 years of archaeological investigations, researchers have concluded that Stonehenge（巨石阵） was built as a monument to unify the peoples of Brita...