Towards the heart of the Milky Way, 5500 light-years from Earth in the constellation（星座，荟萃） of Scorpius (the Scorpion), the Cat's Paw Nebula stret...
Venus Express has completed an 'aerodrag' campaign that used its solar wings as sails to catch faint wisps（小捆，小缕） of the planet's atmosphe...
The discovery 15 years ago that the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 confer（授予，给予） high risks for breast and ovarian（卵巢的，子房的） cancer was a breakthrough for cance...
A study by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) carried out in Krakow, Poland has found that prenatal（产前的，胎儿期的） exposur...
NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites fly around the world every day capturing images of weather, ice and land changes. Over the last three days these ...
A firewall is the safety barrier between a computer network and the outside world. Individuals, companies and large organizations alike rely on a fire...
Banning trans fats（转化型脂肪酸） from all foods in the UK would prevent thousands of heart attacks and deaths every year, and would be a simple way to prote...
NASA's Terra satellite has captured another image of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano ash cloud, now moving into Germany. Eyjafjallaj&o...
This image, acquired today by ESA's Envisat satellite, shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash（火山灰） sweeping across the UK from the eruption（爆发，喷发） i...
New research reveals a brain circuit that seems to underlie the ability of humans to resist instant gratification（满意，喜悦） and delay reward for months, ...