11-02-15 April Alicia Ostriker The optimists among us taking heart（振作，鼓起勇气） because it is spring skip along attending their meetings signing their e-mail petitions（请愿） marching with their satiric（讽刺的） signs singing their we shall overcome s...

11-01-21 Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful. Though life's goodness can at times be overshadowed（使失色） , it is never outweighed. For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are thou...

11-01-12 Daddy? How did I come into this world? Well, my child, someday I'll have to tell you anyway. So why not today? Please! OK, but listen carefully. Mom and Dad met each other in a cybercafe. In the restrooms of that cybercafe, dad connected to mom. Mom...

11-01-10 A study that relates global energy use to economic growth, published in the January issue of BioScience, finds strong correlations between these two measures both among countries and within countries over time. The research leads the study's authors...

11-01-07 Is the expansion of the universe accelerating for some unknown reason? This is one of the mysteries plaguing（折磨，使苦恼） astrophysics, and somewhere in distant galaxies are yet-unseen supernovae that may hold the key. Now, thanks to a telescope...

11-01-03 Imagine waking up to a world where China is the world's leading superpower, astronauts are busy walking on Mars and a brand new political party is ruling the UK. 想象一下，有一天当你醒来时，发现中国成了世界领先的超级大国，宇航员们在火星上行走，而统...

10-12-27 The day my fianc fell to his death, it started to snow, just like any November day, just like the bottom hadn't fallen out of my world when he freefell off the roof. His body, when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every da...

10-12-21 Clemson University psychologist Eric Muth sees motion sickness as potential fallout（原子尘） from high-end technology that once was limited to the commercial marketplace moving to consumer use in gaming devices. Microsoft's Kinect is the latest exa...

10-12-15 In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new alien world. This hot Jupiter, now named Qatar-1b, add...

10-12-14 Tao Yuanming, a famous writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420), wrote the well-known essay Peach-Blossom Spring. In it he tells a story which goes like this: A fisherman happened to come upon（偶然见到） a place called Peach-Blossom Spring. Sque...