15-12-25 I am a violin. Plain looking as I am, I have a wonderful sound. I used to play soft, sweet rhythm in the hand of my young master. But now, lying in the complete darkness, I'm totally discarded, forgotten, waiting for my end in this dead silence. The...

15-11-12 Flory did not see Elizabeth again until he went down to the Club after dinner. He had not, as he might have done, sought her out and demanded an explanation. His face unnerved him when he looked at it in the glass. With the birthmark on one side and...

15-11-12 Like long curved needles threading through embroidery, the two canoes that carried Flory and Elizabeth threaded their way up the creek that led inland from the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy. It was the day of the shooting trip--a short afternoon tri...

15-10-28 A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves. Tractor beams are mysterious rays that can grab an...

15-03-13 A system for using sound waves to spot potentially dangerous cracks in pipes, aircraft engines and nuclear power plants has been developed by a University of Strathclyde academic. A study found that transmitting different types of sound waves can he...

14-10-17 Da Fuquan made a born that could make sounds of dragon. He blew the born by the deep pool near Mountain Nanshang. Hearing the sound, the three-legged turtle in the pool thought that people were to catch it and eat it. So it got so frightened that it...

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...

14-05-28 Scientists studying brain process involved in sight have found the visual cortex also uses information gleaned from（从搜集到） the ears as well as the eyes when viewing the world. They suggest this auditory input enables the visual system to predic...

14-04-25 Scientists have conclusive evidence that the source of a unique rhythmic sound, recorded for decades in the Southern Ocean and called the bio-duck, is the Antarctic minke whale（小须鲸） (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). First described and named by subma...

14-03-05 World-class orchestras（管弦乐队） can be accurately identified by silent video footage of performances, but not through sound recordings, a UCL study has found. Both professional musicians and musical novices（新手） are better at identifying top-r...