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富有情感的机器宠物
10-09-19 Designers of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets（小配件，小工具） that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced（微妙的） ways, mimicking the behavior of real pet anima...
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威尔士科学家克隆出一种人体病毒
10-09-14 A team of Welsh scientists have successfully cloned a human virus offering new hope for the treatment of potentially life-threatening diseases. Human cytomegalovirus（巨细胞病毒） (HCMV) is a major infectious cause of congenital malformations（先天...
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生物合成角膜或将恢复人类视力
10-08-26 A new study from researchers in Canada and Sweden has shown that biosynthetic（生物合成的） corneas（角膜） can help regenerate and repair damaged eye tissue and improve vision in humans. The results, from an early phase clinical trial with 10 patie...
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霍金：未来200年人类将面临巨大危险
10-08-21 英国著名物理学家史蒂芬霍金日前在接受美国著名网站BigThink访谈时，再曝惊人言论，称地球将在200年内毁灭，而人类只有移民外星球才能继续存活。 Humans: Its time to abandon Earth or face extinction. It could be the plot（情节，阴谋） of a summer blockbuster...
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西方国家的研究理论不可直接应用与全世界
10-07-01 A new University of British Columbia study says that an overreliance（过度信赖） on research subjects from the U.S. and other Western nations can produce false claims about human psychology（心理学） and behavior because their psychological tendenci...
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300多万年前的古人类化石出土
10-06-23 Cleveland . . . Meet Lucy's great-grandfather. Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Addis Ababa University and Berkeley Geochronology Center were part of an international te...
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基因组定序成功有助于更好地对抗虱子
10-06-23 A Purdue University researcher hopes a better understanding of the neurological（神经学的） system of the body louse（虱子） through the mapping of its genome will lead to better control or elimination of the human parasite（寄生虫） . Catherine Hil...
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人体虱子基因组定序成功
10-06-22 Like an unwelcome houseguest or itinerant（巡回的，流动的） squatter（擅自居住） , the human body louse（虱子） shows up when times are bad and always makes them worse. Now a multi-institutional team reports that it has sequenced the body louse geno...
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videophilia 影像亲近症
10-06-10 在电脑已经相当普及的这个时代，越来越多的人每天的大部分时间都是在屏幕前面度过的，无论是工作还是生活。下班关电脑，回家开电视，可能同时还要开电脑。很多人不敢想象有一天没有了这些屏幕，他们的生活会是怎样。于是， videophilia 现象就诞生了。 Videophilia ref...
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人类发源地气温灼热
10-06-09 If you think summer in your hometown is hot, consider it fortunate that you don't live in the Turkana Basin of Kenya, where the average daily temperature has reached the mid-90s or higher, year-round, for the past 4 million years. The need to stay c...
