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科普阅读:十万年前的颜料工作室
Archeologists have discovered a paint production studio in an ancient South African cave A new archaeological find may signify one of the great leaps in human cultural and cognitive history. Because2011-10-18 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:一项监视驾驶员和道路的研究
The Transportation Research Board will put cameras and other sensors in more than 3,000 cars to find out what drivers are doing right--and wrong. Steve Mirsky reports 交通研究协会将在3000多辆小汽车里2011-10-17 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:对于拥有 儿童有着不同的想法
MINE! That word appears early in life. Toddlers have an idea of ownership.They also have an idea of what can be owned, and what can't. Children as young as three believe human-made objects a...2011-10-14 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:单细胞到多细胞进化成功的原因
Comparative genomics shows that sodium channel and pump proteins evolved just before multicellular animals arose, implying that control of electrolyte balancing was a crucial event in life's ...2011-10-13 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:城市单车通勤族受煤烟危害更深
Out of control drivers aren't the only thing city cyclists have to worry about. New research suggests that cyclists are at increased risk of lung damage because of soot. 交通秩序失控并非城里骑自行车2011-10-12 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:人体上有多少寄生菌?
Enough to fill a big soup can. "That's three to five pounds of bacteria," says Lita Proctor, the program coordinator of the National Institutes of Health's Human Microbiome P...2011-10-11 编辑:Richard 标签:
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医生认为:我们在医疗保健上花费过多
Many U.S. physicians think that their patients and their patient's purses could get by with less medical care. Katherine Harmon reports 在美国,一些内科医生认为他们的病人若少做些医疗保健,自己会过得2011-10-10 编辑:Richard 标签:
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节奏和熟悉的词语或许有助于语言障碍患者
Left-sided stroke victims are often left with a debilitating speech disorder. Yet many can sing entire pieces of text fluently. Singing is thought to activate areas of the right hemisphere which ca2011-10-09 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:用胶水粘出3-D芯片
IBM and 3M have come up with an adhesive that will allow them to stack up to 100 semiconductors onto a single microchip. Larry Greenemeier reports 据Larry Greenemeier报道,IBM和3M联合研制了一种特殊的2011-10-08 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:2011 诺贝尔生理学或医学奖
Bruce Beutler​, Jules Hoffmann and Ralph Steinman share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their elucidation of the complex workings of the immune system. Bruce Beutler, Jule...2011-10-07 编辑:Richard 标签:
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科普阅读:中国太空计划前进的一大步
China launches the unmanned Tiangong 1 later this week, setting up opportunities for docking and long-duration stays. John Matson reports Who will be next to get to the moon? Maybe China. The upstar2011-10-06 编辑:Richard 标签:
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飞机安全着陆具有有用的黑匣子信息
Two thousand black box parameters from planes that do not crash can be harvested via computer analysis to further increase airline safety. Cynthia Graber reports. 飞机失事没有碰撞的两千个黑盒子参数将2011-09-28 编辑:Richard 标签:
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猛犸血液中的血红蛋白可以帮助其抵御寒冷
When it came to surviving freezing weather, mammoths relied on more than their woolly coats: even their blood was specially adapted to let them thrive in chilly climes. Their hemoglobin functioned w2011-09-27 编辑:Richard 标签:
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太阳系可能曾经存在另一个巨型气体行星
To evolve into our current solar system, the original version probably had a fifth gas giant, computer simulations indicate. John Matson reports. 计算机模拟表明,要演变成我们目前的太阳系,最初的形式2011-09-26 编辑:Richard 标签:
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太阳正逐渐变冷,对我们来说这意味着什么?
The sun's activity is winding down, triggering fevered debate among scientists about how low it will go, and what it means for Earth’s climate. Nasa recorded no sunspots on 266 days in 2008 -...2011-09-23 编辑:Richard 标签: