Santa Cruz, CA, USA and Oxford, UK, 27 September 2010: Research published this week in Nature Nanotechnology shows a new method of enzyme-controlled m...
A better way to pinpoint where volcanic eruptions（火山喷发） are likely to occur has been produced by an international team of geophysicists（地球物理学者） . Scie...
Researchers at Stanford University were able to use light to induce（诱导，引诱） normal patterns of muscle contraction, in a study involving bioengineered m...
The first cultivar（培育植物） of 'ōhelo berry, a popular native Hawaiian fruit, has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists a...
After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom（幻觉的，幽灵的） limb – the vivid illusion that the amputated（截肢） arm or leg...
A new study has determined that teenagers who have abortions（堕胎，流产） are no more likely to become depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers wh...
A University of Oklahoma research team has uncovered a key to arresting the growth of thrush（画眉，鹅口疮） —a type of oral yeast（酵母） infection that si...
Stress has become one of the major disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look. You may experience st...
Contrary to a thousand face cream（面霜，雪花膏） adverts, the secret of fertility might not be eternal（永恒的，不朽的） youth. Research by the ecologist Dr. Carlos H...
Researchers have identified a gene that appears to increase a person's risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common type ...