Category: Science In The News (科学新闻报道)

The United States technological organization Lockheed Martin says it will produce a working fusion nuclear reactor within five years. Lockheed Martin says it may have an operating prototype by 2017,…

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness around the world. In the United States alone, more than two million people suffer from the disease. Glaucoma results from an over-production…

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new material that can move heat out of buildings and into space. The researchers say the material can cool buildings even on hot…

Can you imagine riding around the streets of your hometown on a skateboard without wheels? In the late 1980s, film director Robert Zemeckis showed a skateboard floating above the ground…

Malaria control efforts depend mainly on things like chemically-treated mosquito nets and sprays designed to kill the disease-carrying insects. But scientists in Kenya say another method — a vaccine —…

Climate change has caused a rise in sea levels. This has increased the amount of salt in fresh water used on coastal farms. As a result farmers are increasingly unable…

South Korea is dealing with increasing amounts of waste from electronic devices. These useless or unwanted parts are often called “e-waste.” Tons of old computers, telephones and other devices are…

Kenya is East Africa’s largest economy. Its capital Nairobi is growing quickly. But so is the city’s crime rate — the Nairobi Metropolitan Crime Observatory says thieves steal an average…

Five years ago, the Mars Rover Spirit got stuck in sand on the red planet. Spirit is one of the American space agency’s two motorized vehicles on Mars. Recently, the…

The gas methane has been linked to rising temperatures on Earth. But methane does not stay in the atmosphere as long as another “greenhouse gas” — carbon dioxide. Scientists say…

Testing new drugs for safety and effectiveness is a costly process in the United States. It also can take a lot of time. Some scientists are now designing silicon computer…

We know more about the surface of the planet Mars than we know about what is at the bottom of Earth’s oceans. Until recently, scientists had mapped only about 20…

Powerful winds from the sun affect the earth’s atmosphere. These solar winds cause the beautiful aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights. These winds are also responsible for many…

Three-dimensional printers are fast becoming everyday devices in the United States. Three-D printers are used to make everything from automobile parts to bone replacements for human patients. American research scientists…

An American spacecraft reached Mars late Sunday after a 10-month-long journey. It traveled a total of 711-million kilometers from Earth to the ‘Red Planet’. American scientists are calling the device…