14-10-22 Blue light can both set the mood and set in motion important biological responses. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine and School of Arts and Sciences have teased apart the separate biological responses of the human ey...

14-10-18 据外媒报道，宜家推出一款能见人夸人的穿衣镜，会表扬站在镜子面前的人。比如哇，你是不是最近健身了？你的眼睛太迷人了。 Who hasn't looked in the mirror before leaving for work and felt discouraged before even stepping out of the house? A new mirror from...

14-10-17 As in Alice's journey through the looking-glass to Wonderland, mirrors in the real world can sometimes behave in surprising and unexpected ways, including a new class of mirror that works like no other. As reported today in The Optical Society's (OS...

14-09-15 Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology are first to show the use of sound to communicate with an artificial atom. They can thereby demonstrate phenomena from quantum physics with sound taking on the role of light. The results will be publi...

14-08-18 I was up the next morning be fore the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of grey mo...

14-08-04 Graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon with exceptional electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, has become a focus of research on a variety of potential uses. Now researchers at MIT have found a way to control how the material conducts electr...

14-07-23 Scientists have discovered that greater mouse-eared bats use polarisation patterns in the sky to navigate -- the first mammal that's known to do this. The bats use the way the Sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their i...

14-07-14 Biophysics researchers at the University of Michigan have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process that powers life on our planet....

14-06-23 If I Don't Go Crazy David Kirby There's a sheriff's car parked near Emerald Mound, and the deputy is looking down at his lap and smiling, which means he's probably doing what everyone else is doing these days, that is, texting, though I think he's k...

14-06-23 Lord and Chariot Rickey Laurentiis I say the dead done caught me in a special knot and lured, and dragged me to the interior. I say his face is strange here, a moment cruel but not without its silk, its earned sadness. He asks me to touch it, so I t...