14-06-16 If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean（地下的，秘密的） ocean of liquid water, according to a new NASA-funde...

14-06-16 Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. Though not in the familiar liquid form -- the ingredients for water are bound up in rock...

14-06-05 Deep sea fishes remove and store more than one million tonnes of CO2 from UK and Irish surface waters every year, according to a new study led by the University of Southampton. This natural carbon capture and storage scheme could store carbon equiva...

14-06-05 The Wild Justine Cook The buzzing of a ladybug（瓢虫） above the bathroom mirror sounds like a small plane considering a landing on my head, bowed toward the executioner's block -- the sink. My hands cup water like a supplicant（恳求者） , asking fo...

14-05-30 Someone gave Zi Chan, a high official of the state of Zhen, a living fish as a gift. Zi Chan told the pond-keeper to put it in the pond. But the pond-keeper cooked and ate it, and lied to Zi Chan that he had set free the fish and he even described t...

14-05-30 A person in the state of Song was good at making a medicine that can prevent skin chaps. It was his family tradition to bleach cotton to make a living. A merchant heard of this medicine and offered him a hundred pieces of gold. The Song person thoug...

14-05-30 Fish lives in water. One day, a group of fish was stranded when the spring dried up. They disgorged（吐出） moisture for each other to breathe and spat foam to moisten（弄湿） each other. Now they were never like the way they were in rivers and spri...

14-05-29 River Lishui, located in the south of the state of Chu, abounded in alluvial（冲积的） gold. In order to monopolize（垄断） the mineral resources, the government issued a law to the effect that whoever was caught panning（淘金） secretly in the rive...

14-05-20 Perhaps one of the keys to good health isn't just what you eat but how you taste it. Taste buds -- yes, the same ones you may blame for that sweet tooth or French fry craving -- may in fact have a powerful role in a long and healthy life -- at least...

14-05-11 今年27岁的环境保护爱好者罗布格林菲尔德已经有一年没洗过澡了。不过我们这里所谓的澡是指人工的澡，即用自来水洗的澡。在过去的一年里，罗布骑车穿越美国，并尝试用各种天然水源来洗澡，包括湖泊，河流，雨水和瀑布。 San Diego resident Rob Greenfield just reached...