14-10-15 Salad days is an idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person. More modern use, especially in the United States, refers...

14-10-13 How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their lives. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time thinking about their vacation than the...

14-04-23 With gene expression analysis growing in importance for both basic researchers and medical practitioners, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland have developed a new computational method that dramatically speeds up...

13-07-30 A good state of mind -- that is, your happiness -- affects your genes, scientists say. In the first study of its kind, researchers from UCLA's Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and the University of North Carolina examined how positive psycho...

13-03-07 Hat tip is (often abbreviated to HT or h/t in online contexts) used as an acknowledgement that someone has brought a piece of information to the writers attention, or provided the inspiration for a piece of writing. Hat tip在网络语境中表示致敬，感谢...

11-03-28 网络上常用的缩略语LOL（放声大笑）和OMG（我的天）近日被收录到牛津英语词典中，同时收录其中的还有表达爱心的符号。 The Oxford English Dictionary, will now include and LOL as real words worthy of etymological recording. The stalwart（坚定的，健壮的） bas...

11-03-06 Dr. David Levin, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine discovered recently a novel, evolutionarily conserved mechanis...

10-09-16 Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That's what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others' emotions and finds that Dutch...

10-06-25 看了美剧《Lie to me》吗？那里面的Lightman集团就是通过研究人的面部表情来判断他们是否在说谎，而这个判断过程中很重要的依据就是 microexpression （微表情）。 A microexpression is a brief, involuntary facial expression shown on the face of humans when one...

09-08-15 A new study suggests that people from different cultures read facial expressions differently. 一项新研究显示，不同文化背景下的人面部表情不尽相同。 Facial expressions for fear and surprise were confused by some participants East Asian participants in...