16-01-27 Energy harvesting is emerging as a viable method for electronic devices to pull ambient energy from their surrounding environment and convert it into electrical energy for stored power. This coveted technology has the potential to serve as an altern...

16-01-09 1. Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. -- Tyler Kent White. 2.You must allow yourself to outgrow and depart from certain eras of your life with a gentle sort of ruthlessnes...

16-01-06 UPON the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my design of going over with him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one as big as that, and he should go home in it. He answered not one word, but looked very grave and sad. I asked...

16-01-05 Climate change impacts and associated changes in water resources could lead to reductions in electricity production capacity for more than 60% of the power plants worldwide from 2040-2069, according to a new study published today in the journal Natu...

15-11-11 Pwned means to be utterly defeated by an opponent or to be defeated by a superior power. Pwned（一败涂地）是被对手彻底打败或被一股超强力量击败的意思。 This informal term is used more often in video gaming, and supposedly resulted from a common misty...

15-10-30 Electric eels temporarily paralyze their prey by shocking them with electricity using a series of brief, high-voltage pulses, much as a Taser would do. Now, a researcher reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 28 has discovere...

15-10-18 LinkedIn is the latest employer to offer what's known as discretionary time off, or DTO in corporate HR-speak. 领英公司成为提供自主休假或者DTO的又一位雇主，他们刚在人力资源部的讲话中宣布此事。 Starting on Nov. 1, the job networking site's approximat...

15-10-16 Japan has restarted a second reactor at a nuclear power plant in the southwest of the country. 日本重启国内西南部一座核电站的第二座反应堆。 The Number-2 unit at the Sendai plant will begin generating power next week. The first reactor at the Sendai...

15-10-14 President Xi Jinping on Thursday said that China is committed to working with the United States to build a new type of major-power relationship . 17日，国家主席习近平表示，中国将致力于同美方共同构建中美新型大国关系。 新型大国关系（new model/type of...

15-10-13 Zam Hydropower Station, Tibet's largest, is now fully operational, according to one of the station's contractors. 西藏最大的水电站藏木水电站目前处于全面运转中。 All six of the station's units were incorporated into the power grid on Tuesday, said th...