• Lost Civilization

    13-10-29 Lost Civilization Henry Hart Wine festered(溃烂) at the bottom of my skull. Wind blew the night's big ideas off the trees. The moon had frostbite(冻伤,冻疮) . The stars did, too. Be kind to animals was mother's mantra(咒语) . Do your duty was...

  • 某些树叶可指示金矿的存在

    13-10-23 Money might not grow on trees, but scientists have confirmed that gold is found in the leaves of some plants. 钱不会长在树上,但是科学家证实从某些树的叶子中可以找到黄金。 The scientists found traces of gold in the leaves of Eucalyptus trees Research...

  • Cheyenne

    13-10-11 Cheyenne Rachel Jamison Webster I went down and down. I swam beside the boat, near its sucking wake and tall dangerous sides. I pulled through water hung with mud and slick(光滑的) shale-stumbled banks running up to trees and scattered logs bleach...

  • 树木受伤后为何不会“流血”而死

    13-09-21 Why don't trees bleed to death when they are injured? Researchers from Virginia Tech, the Georg-August University of Gottingen, Germany, and the Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Maine, have discovered how check valves(止回阀) in wood cells contro...

  • 沙漠地区种树可缓解气候变化

    13-08-01 As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate(减轻,缓和) climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with...

  • 热的地区更容易招引害虫

    13-03-28 Higher temperatures in cities can be a key driver of insect pest outbreaks on trees in urban areas, according to research published March 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emily Meineke from North Carolina State University and colleagues fro...

  • 用树木制作可回收太阳能电池

    13-03-27 Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It's fitting that they can now be made partially from trees. Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells...

  • Saving the Birds

    13-02-27 One day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road. These men were lawyers, and they were going to the next town to attend court. There had been a rain, and the ground was very soft. Water was dripping from the trees, and the g...

  • Rich man

    12-12-29 Grandfather was a philosopher, and like a lot of philosophers, I guess, he was a mild-mannered man who was always ready to admit that there are two sides to every question. So when people got to arguing with him, or around him, about things that the...

  • Pome

    12-11-07 Pome Elizabeth Spires From flowering gnarled(多节的,粗糙的) trees they come, weighing down the branches, dropping with a soft sound onto the loamy(肥沃的) ground. Falling and fallen. That's a pome. Common as an apple. Or more rare. A quince(柑...