13-12-13 A molecule containing a noble gas has been discovered in space by a team including astronomers from Cardiff University. The find was made using a Cardiff-led instrument aboard Europe's Herschel Space Observatory. The molecule, argon（氩） hydride（...

13-12-02 Thai authorities fired tear gas amid renewed skirmishes with anti-government protesters outside key government buildings. 泰国主要政府建筑外侧，反政府抗议者与警察发生新冲突，当局向抗议者施放催泪瓦斯。 Protester numbers have fallen but a hard core re...

13-11-19 Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a simple scaling theory（标度理论） to estimate gas production from hydraulically（水压的） fractured wells in the Barnett Shale. The method is intended to help the energy industry accu...

13-11-02 The risks to public health from fracking for shale gas are low, according to a new official report. 一份新的官方报道称，液压开采页岩气影响公众健康的风险很...

13-10-17 At least six people have been killed and two injured in a gas explosion in the central Mexican state of Puebla, officials say. 墨西哥中部普埃布拉州发生一起瓦斯爆炸事故，至少6人死亡、2人受伤。 It is not yet clear what caused the blast at the natural...

13-09-12 A UNSW-led team of astronomers has begun to map the location of the most massive and mysterious objects in our galaxy -- the giant gas clouds where new stars are born. Using a telescope at Coonabarabran that narrowly escaped devastation（毁坏） in a...

13-08-29 For the first time, astronomers have seen the image of a distant quasar（类星体） split into multiple images by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Such events were predicted as early as 1970, but the first evidence fo...

13-08-01 一、 为了使译文自然流畅，读起来顺口，在一些形容词前可根据上下文内容加上副词很、最等字。 1. It was as pleasant a day as I have ever spent. 这是我度过最愉快的一天。 2. It is easy to compress a gas. 气体很容易压缩。 二、 由于语言习惯不同，英语里的形容...

13-06-26 Some homeowners living near shale gas wells appear to be at higher risk of drinking water contamination from stray gases, according to a new Duke University-led study. The scientists analyzed 141 drinking water samples from private water wells acros...

13-06-19 The value of a fuel's long-term usefulness and viability is judged through its energy return on investment; the comparison between the eventual fuel and the energy invested to create it. The energy return on investment (EROI) study published in the...