12-08-03 One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a...

12-07-04 When will there be no more moon and spring flowers 春花秋月何时了， For me who had so many memorable hours? 往事知多少。 My attic which last night in vernal wind did stand 小楼昨夜又东风， Reminds cruelly of the lost moonlit land. 故国不堪回首月明中...

12-06-26 This house, said the real-estate salesman, has both its good points and bad points. To show you I'm honest, I'm goint to tell you about the disadvantage - there is a chemical plant one block south and a slaughterhouse one block north. What are the a...

12-05-10 Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes（沙丘） and ripples moving across the surface of Mars -- observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot of movement on the red planet's surf...

12-05-08 China has been divided into three kingdoms historically: Wei in the north, Shu in the southwest and Wu in the southeast. Once Cao Cao from Wei led a 200,000 strong army down to the south to wipe out the kingdoms of Wu and Shu. Therefore, Wu and Shu...

12-04-26 While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy seas in the Pacific Ocean, oceanographer Giora Proskurowski noticed something new: The water was littered with confetti（五彩纸屑） -size pieces of plastic debris, until the moment the wind pi...

12-03-22 A new assessment of wind energy in India by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that the potential for on-shore wind energy deployment is far higher than the official estimates -- about 20 times and up to 30 times greater than the curren...

12-02-27 Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn's moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been formed by deposits of windblown sand. It has been speculated for some time that some linear dunes may have formed by wind-rift erosion, but this model...

12-02-22 Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of black hole behaves. The re...

12-01-18 By looking at the stability of the atmosphere, wind farm operators could gain greater insight into the amount of power generated at any given time. Power generated by a wind turbine largely depends on the wind speed. In a wind farm in which the turb...