Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño（厄尔尼诺海流） on ou...
On the skin's surface, bacteria are abundant（丰富的，充裕的）, diverse（不同的，相异的） and constant（经常的，不变的）, but inflammation（发炎，红肿） is undesirable（不受欢迎的，不良的）. ...
Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism（分子机制） that may prove to be a powerful target for the tre...
A nutritionist（营养学家） in Nigeria says that malnutrition（营养不良） and iron deficiency in schoolchildren（小学生，学童） could be reduced in her country by baking u...
Since the discovery in 2007 that a component（组件，成分） of human semen（精液） called SEVI boosts infectivity（传染性） of the virus that causes AIDS, researchers ...
In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie（兽群，动物园） of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk（茎） of corn, ...
Cigarettes are "widely contaminated（污染）" with bacteria（细菌）, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international s...
Maternal depression（沮丧，萧条） can worsen asthma（哮喘） symptoms in their children, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center published ...
Are ladybugs（瓢虫） being overtaken by wasps? A Université de Montréal entomologist（昆虫学者） is investigating a type of wasp（黄蜂，胡蜂） (Dinocampu...
If you feel like you're in a losing battle with a triple-chocolate cake, a "mental budget" can help, according to a new study in the Jou...