20-11-21 冷战期间进行的原子弹试验数据帮助科学家们准确地测定了世界上最大鱼类的年龄。鲸鲨是体型庞大、行动速度缓慢、性情温和的生物，主要栖息在热带水域中。 Stretching up to 60 feet in length and weighing around 20 tonnes, the slow-moving whale shark is very popu...

16-03-16 A team of researchers at Aix Marseille Universit in Marseille, France led by Dr. Frdric Leroy developed a technique that allows them to follow physical processes occurring at surfaces of materials at the atomic level in situ and in real time. This n...

15-01-15 Few materials have received as much attention from the scientific world or have raised so many hopes with a view to their potential deployment in new applications as graphene has. This is largely due to its superlative properties: it is the thinnest...

13-10-31 Barrier films, used in everything from food and drug packaging to consumer electronics and solar cells, help prevent your food from spoiling, help to preserve medication, and protect your electronics from damage due to exposure to air or a splash of...

13-10-24 Where two different materials meet on the atomic level, a new material can be born that is neither one nor the other. The two parent materials do not mix -- they remain distinct from one another -- but their marriage begets（产生，引起） a strange c...

13-08-07 A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has developed a technique that provides real-time images of how magnesium（镁） changes at the atomic scale when exposed to radiation. The technique may give researchers new insights into...

12-03-20 A clock accurate to within a tenth of a second over 14 billion years -- the age of the universe -- is the goal of research being reported this week by scientists from three different institutions. To be published in the journal Physical Review Lette...

09-08-08 A woman prays in front of a cenotaph for the victims of the the U.S. 1945 atomic bombing, in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima August 5, 2009. Sixty-one percent of Americans believe the United States did the right thing by dropping the atomic bom...