Recent studies have shown that behaviors such as happiness, obesity（肥大，肥胖） , smoking and altruism（利他主义） are "contagious（蔓延的，感染性的） " within a...
Nurses participating in shift work, especially those working rotating shifts（轮流换班） , face a significantly increased risk of developing Irritable Bowel...
Leafcutter ant queens can live for twenty years, fertilizing millions of eggs with sperm stored after a single day of sexual activity. Danish research...
Quasars（类星体） are active and very powerful black holes at the centre of distant galaxies. The black holes are extremely massive weighing between 100 mi...
Bees see the world almost five times faster than humans, according to new research from scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. This gives bum...
"This is a normal, temperate（温和的，适度的） exoplanet（外部行星） just like dozens we already know, but this is the first whose properties we can study in de...
Dogs likely originated in the Middle East, not Asia or Europe, according to a new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists led by UCLA ...
Giant filaments（花丝，灯丝） of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analysing these structu...
A booster shot（后续疫苗注射） appears to improve tuberculosis (TB肺结核) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa. ...
UCSF researchers have discovered that a key cellular defect（缺点，缺陷） that disturbs the production of proteins in human cells can lead to cancer suscepti...