• 睾丸在进化过程中起重要作用

    16-06-16 A pair of studies led by Indiana University researchers provide new evidence that when it comes to evolution, the testes may play a key role. The research, led by Kimberly Rosvall, assistant professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences Departmen...

  • 通过类似有性生殖创造更先进的机器人

    16-06-08 What if robots could evolve? 如果机器人可以自主进化的话,那么这将会是一幅怎样的场景呢? Its the question asked by a group of scientists in Amsterdam, whose radical new project aims to create smarter, more advanced robots through a process similar to...

  • 如何面对完成己任的师者

    16-05-27 Certain relationships have a built-in expiration date -- or at least, they should. After all, the point of having a therapist, a teacher, a guru, a mentor, is to grow - and that very evolution will eventually mean that the relationship comes to close...

  • 基因组测序解释长颈鹿为何长脖子

    16-05-18 For the first time, the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the reclusive okapi of the African rainforest, have been sequenced -- revealing the first clues about the genetic changes that led to the evolution of the giraffes excep...

  • 陨石撞击地球之前恐龙数量已经在下降

    16-04-19 Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has found. The findings provide a revolution in the understanding of dinosaur evolution. Palaeontolo...

  • 灵长目的进化历程是迅速的

    16-04-08 The pace of evolution is typically measured in millions of years, as random, individual mutations accumulate over generations, but researchers at Cornell and Bar-Ilan Universities have uncovered a new mechanism for mutation in primates that is rapid...

  • 其它物种灭绝会加速人类的进化

    16-02-24 Just three years after crayfish were introduced to a B.C. lake, two species of fish that had existed in the lake for thousands of years were suddenly extinct. But it's what took their place that has scientists fascinated. New research from UBC shows...

  • 物种大灭绝可加速进化

    15-08-13 A computer science team at The University of Texas at Austin has found that robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs. Beyond its implic...

  • 三角恐龙家族鼻角的进化史

    15-07-09 Scientists have discovered Wendiceratops pinhornensis, a new species of horned dinosaur based on fossils collected from a bone bed in southern Alberta, Canada, according to a study published July 8, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by co-aut...

  • 金星上有活跃的火山运动

    15-06-24 An international team of scientists has found some of the best evidence yet that Venus, Earth's nearest neighbor, is volcanically active. In combing through data from the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission, the scientists found transient...