13-06-25 Bacterial DNA may integrate into the human genome more readily in tumors than in normal human tissue, according to a new study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute for Genome Sciences. Researchers analyzed genomic sequencin...

13-06-21 A landmark three-dimensional (3-D) digital reconstruction of a complete human brain, called the BigBrain, now for the first time shows the brain anatomy（解剖学） in microscopic detail -- at a spatial resolution of 20 microns, smaller than the size...

13-06-15 Greenwashing (a compound word modelled on whitewash), or green sheen, is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's aims and policies are environmentally friendly. Whether...

13-06-05 Most apes eat leaves and fruits from trees and shrubs（灌木） . New studies spearheaded by the University of Utah show that human ancestors expanded their menu 3.5 million years ago, adding tropical grasses and sedges to an ape-like diet and setting...

13-05-29 A robot in Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab has learned to foresee human action in order to step in and offer a helping hand, or more accurately, roll in and offer a helping claw. Understanding when and where to pour a beer or knowing when to offer a...

13-05-28 A man is known by the company he keeps they say. If it is so,then everyone is bound to have their baggage of loneliness with them as companions. Loneliness is not something that doesn't exist at all with any human being on earth. Every human being f...

13-05-17 I don't know any other animal on this green earth that loves a barbecue more than a dog, and being one, I'm no exception. So, when my people say let's go, you know I'm gonna be there. Well, this is a short story of one of those trips to meat Eden, a...

13-05-13 The World Health Organization says it appears likely that the novel coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people in close contact. 世界卫生组织称，新型冠状病毒似乎可以通过人与人之间的亲密接触来传播。 The World Health Organisation says it is close...

13-05-13 A recent Baylor University research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa. Beginning around two million years ago, early stone tool-making humans, known scientifically as...

13-05-03 Figs（无花果） and fig trees are familiar to a wide cross-section of human society, both as a common food and for their spiritual importance. What is less well understood is the global nature of this association between figs and humans, which is mai...