16-01-16 A team of astronomers led by Tomoharu Oka, a professor at Keio University in Japan, has found an enigmatic gas cloud, called CO-0.40-0.22, only 200 light years away from the center of the Milky Way. What makes CO-0.40-0.22 unusual is its surprisingl...

15-11-13 Clouds, Metaphysical William Logan The cloud bank over Cuttyhunk, like scalloped linen -- just a short sail to faith and theology, divine imprudence, the tides of doubt. What was our workday, we who abandoned prayer? The canted port from which the d...

15-11-02 Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australians may soon be able to travel without their passports in a world-leading initiative. 澳大利亚外交部部长朱莉毕晓普表示，如果一个全球领先的项目成功实行，可能很快澳洲人民旅行时就无需携带护照了。 The tradition...

15-09-23 We each give off millions of bacteria from our human microbiome to the air around us every day, and that cloud of bacteria can be traced back to an individual. New research focused on the personal microbial cloud -- the airborne microbes we emit int...

15-04-02 Microsoft has announed it plans to offer 100 million yuan worth of free cloud-computing services and software tools to 100 Chinese startups. 微软宣布计划向中国100家创业公司提供价值1亿元人民币的云计算服务与软件工具 。 Bill Gates, co-founder of micros...

14-10-14 关山月 李白 明月出天山，苍茫云海间。 长风几万里，吹度玉门关。 汉下白登道，胡窥青海湾。 由来征战地，不见有人还。 戍客望边色，思归多苦颜。 高楼当此夜，叹息未应闲。 THE MOON AT THE FORTIFIED PASS Li Bai 许渊冲 译 From Heaven's Peak the moon rises brigh...

14-10-09 A SPLENDID Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passen...

14-09-16 Cloud computing involves displacing data storage and processing from the user's computer on to remote servers. It can provide users with more storage space and computing power that they can then access from anywhere in the world rather than having t...

14-09-04 Midi Les Murray Muscles and torsoes of cloud ascended over the mountains. The fields looked like high speed so new-mown was the hay, then the dark blue Italian lavender met overhead, a strange maize deeply planted as mass javelins in the hoed floor...

14-05-04 Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather a...