12-12-04 Say goodbye to that annoying buzz created by overhead fluorescent light（荧光灯） bulbs in your office. Scientists at Wake Forest University have developed a flicker-free, shatterproof alternative for large-scale lighting. The lighting, based on fie...

12-11-21 Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have modified electrically-conductive polymers, commonly used in solar energy applications, to develop revolutionary polymer nanoparticles (PNs) for a medical application. When the nanoparticles are...

12-11-07 Pome Elizabeth Spires From flowering gnarled（多节的，粗糙的） trees they come, weighing down the branches, dropping with a soft sound onto the loamy（肥沃的） ground. Falling and fallen. That's a pome. Common as an apple. Or more rare. A quince（柑...

12-10-30 Scientific research has provided us with a fundamental understanding of how light (via photons) and electricity (via electrons) move within and between materials at the micrometer or nanometer levels, making possible a wide variety of miniature devi...

12-10-11 Imagine only needing to hover under a street lamp to get public internet access, or downloading a movie from the lamp on your desk. There's a new technology on the block which could, quite literally as well as metaphorically, 'throw light on' how to...

12-09-28 If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. There are only two creatur...

12-09-28 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-...

12-09-20 Into the sunshine, Full of the light, Leaping and flashing From morn till night! Into the moonlight, Whiter than snow, Waving so flower-like When the winds blow! Into the starlight, Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day! Ever in motion,...

12-09-17 很多人喜欢睡前躺在床上拿iPad或手机上网、看电影或者玩游戏。最近有研究显示，这种行为会影响睡眠质量。 Using tablet computers like Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Note just before bed can lead to a poor night's sleep, according to research. More and m...

12-09-10 Had I the heavens' embroidered（刺绣的） cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dream...