21-03-23 As the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. A tragic event in India the gang rape of a young woman led engineering students to develop a bra that can deliver a 3800kv electric shock to any would-be attacker. Manisha Mohan, from the...

21-03-10 Heres a hotel worth writing home about: a company in Poland plans to build tourist accommodation under the sea. The structure can be towed to a suitable location and placed on supports on the sea bed. The Water Discus will be made up of an underwate...

21-01-19 第二百二十八条 法律文书指定交付的财物或者票证，由执行员传唤双方当事人当面交付，或者由执行员转交，并由被交付人签收。 Article 228 With respect to the property or negotiable instruments specified for delivery in the legal document, the execution office...

14-08-06 There are two kinds of pain, the sort of pain that makes you strong or useless pain, the sort of pain that's only suffering. 痛苦分两种，一种让你变得更强，另一种毫无价值，只是徒添折磨。 And a person's character isn't determined by how he or she enjo...

14-06-21 A new study led by the University of Minnesota offers new insights on the long-term future of emperor penguins by showing that the penguins may be behaving in ways that allow them to adapt to their changing environment better than we expected. Resea...

13-08-02 Scientists believe that pigeons have a spatial map that allows them to fly in an unfamiliar territory and know exactly where they are going. 科学家经过实验得出结论：鸽子大脑中有一幅空间地图，因而能够在陌生地区飞行，并能判断出确切的飞行方向。 蓝箭头...

12-09-18 Geolocation means the ability for websites to find out the users location, which is useful to many web applications on mobile devices. Many mobile phones allow websites to pinpoint their location, and use that to display information about the surrou...

12-07-17 Consumers are more likely to select products located in the horizontal（水平的） center of a display and may not make the best choices as a result, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. A close investigation of visual attenti...

12-03-12 The word planking refers to the activity of lying face-down in an unusual location and being photographed. Planking（中文译作仆街）指脸朝下趴在一个让人意想不到的地方然后让人给拍照纪录下来的行为。 The activity noun planking was coined in Australia in...

10-07-30 In Greek mythology（神话） , the gods punished Sisyphus by condemning him to roll a rock up a steep hill for eternity（来世，不朽） . But he was probably better off than if they'd condemned him to sit and stare into space until the end of time, conc...