日期：2009-11-02 Individuals who consume a diet high in sodium（钠） or artificially sweetened drinks are more likely to experience a decline in kidney function, according to two papers being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting in San Di... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 The first solar system energetic particle maps show an unexpected landmark occurring at the outer edge of the solar wind bubble surrounding the solar system. Scientists published these maps, based mostly on data collected from NASA's Interstellar Bo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 NASA's Aqua satellite captured Rick's remnant（残余） clouds and showers as they charged through Texas and fed moisture（潮湿，湿气） into a low pressure system that is migrating across the U.S. By mid-day on October 22, Rick's remnant moisture had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Cobbling（织物重染，圆石铺砌） together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic（全景的） image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece（中心装饰）. Axel Mellinger, a professor at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 In the new ESO image, Barnard's Galaxy glows beneath a sea of foreground stars in the direction of the constellation（星座，星群） of Sagittarius (the Archer). At the relatively close distance of about 1.6 million light-years, Barnard's Galaxy is a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 The Moon is a big sponge（海绵） that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains（颗粒） on the lunar surface, producing water. This discovery, made by the ESA-IS... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed（扰乱，妨碍） and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers in the UK may have fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Understanding dark energy（暗力量） is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group. Because the universe is expanding and at the same... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Astronomers（天文学家） using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing（诱人的） insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the Universe -- a gigantic stellar（星球的... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Star clusters（星团） are among the most visually alluring（迷人的，诱惑的） and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles（安置） deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross in the constellation（星... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Pre-dialysis（血液透析前） transplant recipients（收件人，受体者） with a high level of kidney function don't benefit from their transplant more than pre-dialysis recipients with low level kidney function, according to a paper being presented at the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator（导航器）. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which calculates your position based on the location of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 At its most benign（良性的）, the autoimmune disease（自身免疫病） scleroderma（硬皮病） can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers. At its most pernicious（有害的，致命的）, it can thicken and harden their skin, their blood vessels（血管）, an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Get-togethers（聚会） with a kidney disease patient's family and friends can improve their willingness to consider donation, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 A study conducted by exercise physiologists（生理学者） in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Human Studies finds that as little as 80 minutes a week of aerobic（有氧的） or resistance（阻抗训练） training helps not only to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS - pronounced SMOSS)... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel（唯一致命的弱点） for all strains of the flu antioxidants（抗氧化剂）. In an article appearing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-30 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have shown that adult stem cells from bone marrow（骨髓） can prevent acute lung injury in a mouse model of the disease. Their results are reported online in the October issue... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-29 Human embryonic stem cells（胚胎干细胞） derived from excess IVF embryos（晶胚） may help scientists unlock the mysteries of infertility（不肥沃，不毛） for other couples struggling to conceive（构思，怀孕）, according to new research from the Stanf... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-29 Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons（光子，光量子） arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of de... 阅读全文>>