14-03-02 Edward Snowden, the famed NSA whistle-blower, already has been cast as the hero in a video gamethat has him collecting sensitive information while avoiding government capture. Now, he can be the hero of more tactile game play with his arrival in the...

13-11-06 US President Barack Obama on Thursday prepared for the possibility of launching unilateral American military action against Syria within days as Britain opted out in a stunning vote by Parliament. 在英国议会周四投票意外让英国退出联盟的同时，美国总统...

13-10-15 Jiang said the Philippines has not shown sufficient sincerity and has been oscillating in its handling of the case, making it necessary for Taipei to take further action , Taiwan media reported. 台湾媒体报道，江宜桦表示菲律宾未表现出足够的诚意，并且...

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...

12-11-06 When we asked whether or not there are shortcuts to becoming an expert, many of the responses revolved around a single theme: The quickest path to expertise is to take direct action, get a lot of experience, and work your ass off. There may be some...

11-06-30 Bringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers at The University of Western Ontario from The Centre for Brain and Mind (http://www.uwo.ca/its/brain/) can now determine the action a person was planning, mere（仅仅的） moments before that...

11-02-23 If asked whether we'd steal, most of us would say no. Would we try to save a drowning person? That dependsperhaps on our fear of big waves. Much research has explored the ways we make moral（道德的） decisions. But in the clinch, when the opportunit...

10-09-15 Did I turn off the stove, or did I just imagine it? Memory isn't always reliable. Psychological（心理学的） scientists have discovered all sorts of ways that false memories get created, and now there's another one for the list: watching someone else...

10-09-15 People who play action video games are known for their fast reaction times compared to those who don't play the games. And it isn't that they are just trigger happy（好战的） , according to researchers who report their findings in the September 14th...

09-10-27 Health ministers from around the world have agreed that swift action must be taken to reduce the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth. 世界各国的卫生部长一致同意，要减少妊娠和分娩时候死亡的妇女的数量，就必须采取快速行动。 Hundreds o...