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Gravity
14-06-05 Gravity Karl Plank When night calls for sounds to cease, the barred owl yet cries Who cooks for you? and somewhere a woman slippers through the dark to a kitchen where water drips（滴水槽） a slow beat on the worn basin. She nooses the tap with stri...
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The kitchen is so dark 厨房里太黑了
14-05-28 After supper, the parents were busy playing mah-jong with the guests. At this point the mother thought of something and said to her son who was watching TV, Honey, go see if the kitchen light is on or not? After a while, her son returned and said, M...
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LUX成为最灵敏的暗物质探测器
13-10-31 In its first three months of operation, the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment has proven itself to be the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world, scientists with the experiment announced today. LUX is blazing the path to illuminatin...
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Can you write in the dark?
13-07-09 A daughter came home and asked, Daddy, can you write in the dark? Her father said, I think so; what do you want me to write? Oh, just your name on this report card! 一个小女孩回家以后问爸爸说：您可以在黑暗中写字吗？ 爸爸回答：应该可以。你要我写什么...
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The Moon
13-06-08 In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity（朦胧，阴暗） . At the creation of the world, the light at night had...
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感应式头盔有助消防员在黑暗中工作
13-04-02 A specially-adapted 'tactile helmet', developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, could provide fire-fighters operating in challenging conditions with vital clues about their surroundings. The helmet is fitted with a number of ultrasoun...
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我们接触到暗物质了吗？
12-12-26 This fall, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and the National Academy of Sciences organized a colloquium（讨论会） that brought together more than 100 cosmologists, particle physicists and observational astrop...
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世界最大暗能量相机在智利建造完毕
12-09-19 Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping mac...
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Tread on my dreams.
12-09-10 Had I the heavens' embroidered（刺绣的） cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dream...
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有些患睡眠障碍的人是因为害怕黑夜
12-06-12 A small study of Toronto college students is shedding light on a contributing factor of insomnia（失眠） that might be hard to admit -- an adult fear of the dark. Nearly half of the students who reported having poor sleep also reported a fear of the...
