15-12-09 SEPTEMBER 30, 1659. -I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called The Island of Despair; all the rest of the ship's company being drowned...

15-11-24 Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Two. One to hold the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub withbrightly colored machine tools....

15-05-28 What if handheld tools know what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help inexperienced users to complete jobs that require skill? Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed and started studying a novel concept in robotics...

15-05-21 Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may no...

15-04-16 It was a discovery that changed what researchers knew about the hunting techniques of chimpanzees. In 2007, Jill Pruetz first reported savanna chimps at her research site in Fongoli, Senegal, were using tools to hunt prey. That alone was significant...

14-02-08 A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist and his colleagues have found a new application for the tools and mathematics typically used in physics to help solve problems in biology. Specifically, the team used statistical mechanics and mathe...

12-12-25 Ancient people made clay pottery because they needed it for their survival. They used the pots they made for cooking, storing food, and carrying things from place to place. Pottery was so important to early cultures that scientists now study it to l...

12-12-20 Men whacked（重击） punching bags for a University of Utah study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity（手灵巧度） needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists and fight. Compar...

12-11-06 A cockatoo（风头鹦鹉） from a species not known to use tools in the wild has been observed spontaneously making and using tools for reaching food and other objects. A Goffin's cockatoo called 'Figaro', that has been reared in captivity and lives nea...

10-04-14 Apple has clamped down on the software tools that developers can use to write programs for the iPhone. 苹果已开始对某些软件进行反击，据悉开发人员可以利用这些软件给iPhone写程序。 Apple has previewed changes to its iPhone operating software Before now...