30
October
2009

乖乖不得了,这下妈妈们都盼着吐吧!

Does Morning Sickness Mean Smart Kids?: Scientific American

A new study shows a correlation between nausea and vomiting during pregnancy and the long-term neurocognitive development of those kids. Pediatric researcher Irena Nulman and her team at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that youngsters whose mothers suffered from morning sickness during pregnancy scored higher on some cognitive tests than did those whose mothers did not start their pregnant days throwing up.


30
October
2009

万圣节给小朋友们的科普故事。可惜Ella还太小了,要是和周欣怡那么大就好了。

Zombie Creatures: What Happens When Animals Are Possessed by a Parasitic Puppet Master? [Slide Show]: Scientific American Slideshows

From fungi to flies, some parasitic species have figured out how to control their host’s behavior to get what they need. See what happens when bugs go really bad