14-04-18 Perfection fatigue refers to mental exhaustion and stress caused by constantly trying to present oneself as perfect, or by constantly seeing images of perfection. Perfection fatigue（完美疲劳症）指由于不断追求自我完美表现或者因为不断看到完美的图像而...

14-01-08 After nearly a decade of development, construction and testing, the world's most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets orbiting around other stars is pointing skyward and collecting light from distant worlds. Even these earl...

13-12-11 The region located between the surface of the sun and its atmosphere has been revealed as a more violent place than previously understood, according to images and data from NASA's newest solar observatory, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph,...

13-11-20 UT Dallas computer scientists have developed a technique to create 3-D images that finds practical applications of a theory created by a famous mathematician. This technique uses anisotropic（各向异性的） triangles -- triangles with sides that vary...

13-11-13 Despite their almost incomprehensibly（不可思议地） small size -- a diameter about one ten-thousandth the thickness of a human hair -- single-walled carbon nanotubes come in a plethora（过多，过剩） of different species, each with its own structure...

13-08-29 For the first time, astronomers have seen the image of a distant quasar（类星体） split into multiple images by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Such events were predicted as early as 1970, but the first evidence fo...

13-07-09 Archaeologists in Mexico have catalogued thousands of etchings carved into stones that they believe were made by hunter-gatherers 6,000 years ago. 墨西哥考古学家将数千雕于石头上的版画进行分类整理，他们认为这是六千多年前的采集猎人制作而成。 The carvi...

12-11-06 A new study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmospheric Science uses Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data to investigate deformation prior to the eruption of active volcanoes in Indonesia's...

12-06-14 Viewing Facebook and Flickr photos on a smart phone are becoming common practice. But according to a recently published Journal of Vision study, pictures on the small screen often appear distorted（歪曲的） . Vision scientists found that perceptual...

12-05-16 Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women's sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and women see ima...