Cancer patients may benefit from sessions with trained music therapists or from listening to music. A new Cochrane systematic review shows using music can reduce anxiety in cancer patients, and may also have positive effects on mood, pain and quality...
Preschool children consumed nearly twice as many vegetables and 11 percent fewer calories over the course of a day when researchers Penn State added pureed vegetables to the children's favorite foods. Childhood obesity rates are on the rise, and at t...
A new study reveals how enzymes in the honey bee gut detoxify（使解毒） pesticides commonly used to kill mites in the honey bee hive. This is the first study to tease out（梳理） the precise molecular mechanisms that allow a pollinating（授粉...
Young babies' brains are already specially attuned to（习惯于） the sounds of human voices and emotions, according to a report published online on June 30 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Three- to seven-month-old infants showed mor...
Many animals have eyes that are incredibly complex others manage without. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have shown that sea urchins（海胆） see with their entire body despite having no eyes at all. The study has been published in th...
What links speed, power, and the color red? Hint: it's not a sports car. It's your muscles. A new study, published in the latest issue of the journal Emotion, finds that when humans see red, their reactions become both faster and more forceful. And p...
Ionizing radiation（电离辐射） is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the...
A University of Utah study shows that men hit harder when they stand on two legs than when they are on all fours, and when hitting downward rather than upward, giving tall, upright males a fighting advantage. This may help explain why our ape-like hu...
Exposure to secondhand smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with increased blood pressure in boys, according to new research being presented Sunday, May 1, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Denver. Children wit...
Easy-to-follow recipes for radioactive compounds like those found in nuclear fuel storage pools, liquid waste containment areas and other contaminated aqueous（水的） environments have been developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories...
