14-08-21 The sweet and salty aroma（芳香） of sunscreen and seawater signals a relaxing trip to the shore. But scientists are now reporting that the idyllic（悠闲的） beach vacation comes with an environmental hitch. When certain sunblock ingredients wash of...

14-08-08 Cosmology Christopher Buckley Most days I find myself considering the encrypted clouds, though, while everything is blue through the boughs of heaven, I know the stars will hardly spell out our names in specks across the enormity（巨大，暴行） of ni...

14-08-07 The eyes of deep-sea bioluminescent（生物性发光的） sharks have a higher rod density when compared to non-bioluminescent sharks, according to a study published August 6, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Julien M. Claes, postdoctoral resea...

14-07-23 Scarcely had I finished when, looking out to sea, I saw the vessel heading for the island, and, feeling that it would be useless for me to protest my innocence, I again concealed myself among the branches of a tree that grew near by. The old man and...

14-06-20 Sixth Voyage It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble. I am even surprised myself when I look back, but evidently it was my fate to rove, and...

14-05-30 Legends hold that Shu was the king of the south sea. Hu was the king of the North Sea, and Hun Dun was the king of the center. Shu and Hu often visited Hun Dun's kingdom, and Hun Dun always gave them a feast. Shu and Hu decided to r eciprocate（报答...

14-05-10 Scientists have developed a new method for revealing how sea levels might rise around the world throughout the 21st century to address the controversial topic of whether the rate of sea level rise is currently increasing. The international team of r...

14-05-09 The son of a high official of the state of Ren angled in the east sea, using fifty oxen as the bait. He had not caught a single fish for a year. But he was not discouraged and did not give up. In the end, a big fish swallowed the bait. If the fish w...

14-04-20 If you've been inside a grocery store in the past couple of years, you've probably noticed the trend in food manufacturers adding Made with sea salt to their product packaging. The claim shows up on a wide variety of foods - from organic whole grain...

14-04-17 An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about. Researchers from the University of Southampton, the Nation...