• 大陆板块碰撞:5千万年的传说

    12-03-01 Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia(欧亚大陆) , a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau. India and Eurasia continue to converge(聚合) today, though at an e...

  • 欧盟科学家正建立“小行星防护盾”

    12-02-04 Scientists are trying to find a way to protect Earth from the giant rocks which travel around the Milky Way. 科学家正试图找到能保护地球免遭银河系巨石撞击的方法。 Run out of Berlin with funds from the EU, the NEOShield project, which will look for a...

  • 谷歌将升级全球海洋地图

    12-02-03 Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry(海洋测深学) data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA researchers and many other ocean mappin...

  • 俄火星探测器碎片将坠回地球

    12-01-16 The remainder of the crippled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is set to crash to Earth on Sunday following its botched mission to Mars, space experts have said. 航天专家日前表示,福布斯-土壤火星探测器发射失败后,报废的航天器碎片将于周日坠入地球。 The minib...

  • 古西伯利亚火山运动造成物种大范围灭绝

    12-01-10 Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic(创伤的) known species die-off in Earth's history. Although the cause of this event is a mystery, it h...

  • 天花乱坠

    11-12-30 In the Southern and Northern Dynasties(420-589), in the reign of king Wu of Liang, there was a monk called Master Yun Guang who was a very accomplished(有技巧的) preacher. Once he explained the sutra(佛经,箴言) so proformdly and subtly that the...

  • An Inhabitant Of Carcosa 2

    11-12-28 I observed in the herbage(草,草本) a number of weatherworn(风雨侵蚀的) stones, evidently shaped with tools. They were broken, covered with moss(苔藓) and half sunken in the earth. Some lay prostrate(俯卧的) , some leaned at various angles,...

  • 月亮不是地球唯一的卫星

    11-12-24 美国康奈尔大学的研究人员称,月亮不是唯一围绕地球轨道运行的天体。其它更小一些的物体也一直有规律的运行在地球轨道上,有时它们会离开几个月,但仍然会回来继续绕地运行。 Researchers at Cornell University say that what we know as the Moon is in fact not the...

  • 地球深处形成一种新金属

    11-12-20 The crushing pressures and intense temperatures in Earth's deep interior squeeze atoms and electrons so closely together that they interact very differently. With depth materials change. New experiments and supercomputer computations have revealed t...

  • 法国阿尔卑斯山上的冰川正在消失

    11-12-07 Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years, according to new research. 一项新调查显示,在过去40年间,法国阿尔卑斯山上的冰川消失了1/4。 In the Ecrins Massif, glacial retreat is more than three times stronger th...