12-11-21 Portable, accurate, and highly sensitive devices that sniff out vapors（蒸汽） from explosives and other substances could become as commonplace as smoke detectors in public places, thanks to researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara. Re...

12-11-05 精彩对白 Jamie: LA's so nice. Dylan: And everyone's so genuine and level-headed . Jamie: Thanks for this. You're good peeps . Dylan: You're the good peeps, dude. You haven't met my family. You don't know what you're in for. Jamie: Okay. Dylan: You k...

12-10-30 Smoke-free legislation was associated with substantially fewer hospitalizations and deaths from heart and respiratory（呼吸的） diseases, according to research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Researchers reviewed 45 studies co...

12-07-09 Third-hand smoke is generally considered to be residual nicotine and other chemicals left on a variety of indoor surfaces by tobacco smoke. This residue is thought to react with common indoor pollutants to create a toxic mix. This toxic mix of third...

12-05-26 新西兰政府日前宣布，未来四年内烟草税将提高40％；到2016年，平均每包烟的价格将达到20新西兰元（约合人民币95元）。新西兰政府官员表示，希望通过增税和新的限制措施能够让新西兰人逐步放弃吸烟习惯，并能在2025年实现全国无烟。 There are smoke-free bars, smoke-f...

12-03-31 In what appears to be the first reported case of its kind on US shores, a Colorado woman alleges that her iPhone 4 caught fire while charging overnight and wants Apple to warn customers of the device's possible combustion issues. 美国科罗拉多州一位...

11-12-28 A moment later a man's head appeared to rise out of the ground a short distance away. He was ascending the farther slope of a low hill whose crest was hardly to be distinguished from the general level. His whole figure soon came into view against th...

11-12-28 I observed in the herbage（草，草本） a number of weatherworn（风雨侵蚀的） stones, evidently shaped with tools. They were broken, covered with moss（苔藓） and half sunken in the earth. Some lay prostrate（俯卧的） , some leaned at various angles,...

11-11-11 Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers spotlight the human health effects of exposure to smoke from open fires and dirty cookstoves, the primary source of cooking and heating for 43 percent, or some 3 billion members,...

11-09-25 People who smoke could lose around one third of their everyday memory, researchers say. 研究人员称，吸烟者会丧失约三分之一的日常记忆。 A study by a team at Northumbria University has shown that smokers lose more of their memory when compared to non-...