15-10-12 Kansas State University wheat scientists have completed the first study of a chromosome in a tertiary gene pool and have called it a breakthrough in exploring wheat wild relatives for future crop improvement. Their study, Exploring the tertiary gene...

15-08-23 The world's first sky pool has been unveiled - and it's high enough to give anyone a touch of vertigo. 世界第一个空中泳池近日惊艳亮相它的高度足以让任何人头晕目眩。 Towering far above the street balanced between two residential buildings in Nine Elms...

15-01-28 Entrepreneurs want to build a 10 million open-air swimming pool in the middle of the Thames in Central London. 一些企业家计划耗资一千万英镑（约为人民币9345万）在伦敦市中心的泰晤士河中部打造露天泳池。 Purification specialists from Germany - which has...

15-01-15 Drought Fishing Thomas Reiter Mid-riverbed, below rapids dry as the track left by a pencil eraser, I come to a pool that from bank-side glints like the last thin dime the water's down to. I circle it in minutes, and though I can't see the bottom, I...

14-01-22 Given a choice, male dyeing poison frogs snub empty pools in favor of ones in which their tiny tadpoles（蝌蚪） have to metamorphose（变形） into frogs in the company of larger, carnivorous ones of the same species. The frog fathers only choose to d...

13-01-23 Wednesday night, Howard asked Glenn if he wanted to go fishing and girl-watching that weekend at Santa Fe Lake. We'll leave Friday morning and return late Sunday night, he said. Glenn said he had to clean out his garage, so Howard went by himself. H...

12-08-11 Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, has revealed what no sports fan wants to hear that Olympic swimmers occasionally relieve themselves in the pool. 到目前为止个人获得金牌总数最多的奥运游泳选手迈克尔菲尔普斯揭露了任何体育...

12-01-30 Two of Shanghai's leading universities are involved in a fierce dispute over alleged poaching of talented students , as competition among universities on the Chinese mainland continues to intensify. 上海两所著名高校近日卷入争抢生源的口水仗中，大陆高...

11-12-12 A number of factors, including a declining birth rate, difficulties in obtaining quality education, and easier access to overseas universities, have combined to drain the student pool of Chinese universities. 人口出生率下降、接受素质教育存在困难、以...

10-09-26 Returning David Wagoner At the brim（边缘） of a deep pool before the rapids（急流，湍流） below that stone stairway（阶梯，楼梯） for days overhead the under-sheen of the other world turning darker lighter again still holding the first taste of rai...