16-07-29 Forty of Chinas science and research institutions have dominated the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars chart, with the Chinese Academy of Sciences taking the lead. 以中国科学院为首的40家中国科研机构入选自然指数2016新星榜。 The rankings, released by the...

16-02-05 Loyal and trustworthy, people born in the Year of the Rooster are sociable, very accomplished and usually very well-dressed. Shrewd and daring, they are outspoken and even boastful by nature. Most annoyingly - Roosters always think they are right .....

16-01-06 HAVING now brought all my things on shore and secured them, I went back to my boat, and rowed or paddled her along the shore to her old harbour, where I laid her up, and made the best of my way to my old habitation, where I found everything safe and...

15-12-30 Chinese biologist Huang Junjiu was selected as one of the ten most influential people in 2015 by the science journal Nature. 中国生物学家黄军就被科学杂志《Nature》选为2015十大最具影响力人物之一。 Nature's Chief features editor says this year's list...

15-12-09 I MENTIONED before that I had a great mind to see the whole island, and that I had travelled up the brook, and so on to where I built my bower, and where I had an opening quite to the sea, on the other side of the island. I now resolved to travel qu...

15-12-09 I came down to the ship I found it strangely removed. The forecastle, which lay before buried in sand, was heaved up at least six feet, and the stern, which was broke in pieces and parted from the rest by the force of the sea, soon after I had left...

15-03-03 Nature is on the move. As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves, species and ecosystems are moving in response. This poses a fundamental challenge to conservation organizations--how do you conserve something that won't stay still? A new pa...

15-01-06 Ants were once men and made their living by tilling the soil. But, not content with the results of their own work, they were always eating longing eyes upon the crops and fruits of their neighbours, which they stole, whenever they got the chance, an...

14-08-27 The tides advance, the tides recede. Winter goes and summer comes. Summer wanes and the cold increases. The sun rises, the sun sets. The moon is full, the moon is black. The birds arrive, the birds depart. Flowers bloom, flowers fade. Seeds are sown...

14-08-04 In the United States, natural-gas production from shale rock（页岩） has increased by more than 700 percent since 2007. Yet scientists still do not fully understand the industry's effects on nature and wildlife, according to a report in the journal...