14-06-03 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laser-based instrument that generates artificial sunlight to help test solar cell properties and find ways to boost their efficiency. The novel NIST system sim...

14-05-19 Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light -- a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. In just one day over several cups of coffee in a tiny office in Imperial's Blackett Physi...

14-04-06 All that's gold does not glitter, thanks to new work by UC Irvine scientists that could reduce glare from solar panels and electronic displays and dull dangerous glints（闪烁） on military weapons. We found that a very simple process and a tiny bit...

14-03-25 The Green Horse Yusef Komunyakaa The kneeling figure is from Yama or Carthage, I ask, What was his worth in gold, in salt, spices, statuary（雕像） , or commemorated axioms? L, if we weren't brave enough to believe we could master time, we wouldn't...

14-03-13 Edgar Poe Peter Gizzi Winter's the thing. A place to lay one's head. To sleep at last to sleep. Blue on flesh in snow light, iced boughs overhead. This is a poem about breath, brick, a piece of ink in the distance. Winter's the thing I miss. The fon...

14-02-26 A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown for the first time that several types of aquatic algae（海藻） can detect orange, green and blue light. Land plants have receptors to detect light on the red and far...

14-02-16 Wait, so my life may not have disappeared down a black hole after all? 等等，你刚才是说，我不会被黑洞所吞噬？ There is a chance for it to emerge and bloom like the career of David Hasselhoff? It's charming when a phrase enters the language and we th...

14-01-27 In work that has major implications for improving the performance of building insulation（房屋保温） , scientists at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco have calculated that hairs that reflect infrared light...

14-01-27 Flexible, layered materials textured with nanoscale wrinkles could provide a new way of controlling the wavelengths and distribution of waves, whether of sound or light. The new method, developed by researchers at MIT, could eventually find applicat...

14-01-14 IMITATION 一种食品看上去像另一种食品，但是原料却不相同，那么这就是一个仿造品，是吗？这是不准确的。如果该食品比被模仿的食品的蛋白质或其他一些营养成分低，那么它只能被贴上仿造品的标签。 FREE 食物上脱脂、无糖或者无盐的字样，并不意味着食物中完全没有这些...