14-06-05 One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a...
14-05-15 Wind conditions during spring migration may be a predictor of apparent annual survival and the timing of breeding in yellow warblers, according to results published May 14, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Anna Drake from Simon Fraser Un...
13-12-19 Hunger Patricia Fargnoli It is the gnawing(令人痛苦的) within the silence of the deep body which is like the pool a waterfall replenishes(补充,装满) but can never fill. The watery room of the body and its voices who call and call wanting someth...
13-10-11 Talking about the Wind Katie Peterson I hate to invoke the seasons. They dismantle(拆除,取消) us. We do the same to them. I hate to say the spring. It's become bone-deep routine. Nice going, May, permission or bluster, even the little leaves that...
13-09-06 Data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft reveal that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed. Interstellar atoms flow past Earth as the solar system pa...
13-04-15 heavy rain 大雨、暴雨 torrential rain 倾盆大雨 storm track 风暴路径 orange alert 橙色预警 red alert 红色预警 safety precaution 安全预防措施 tropical storm 热带风暴 ebb away 衰退,渐逝 power line 输电线 warning system 报警系统 Muifa 梅花 typhoon 台风...
12-12-26 Oceanographers at the University of Rhode Island have analyzed long-term data from several anemometers(风速计) in southern New England and found that average wind speeds have declined by about 15 percent at inland sites while speeds have remained...
12-12-18 Imagine riding in an airplane as the plane is jolted back and forth by gusts of wind that you can't prove exist but are there nonetheless(尽管如此) . Similar turbulence exists in space, and a research team led by the University of Iowa reports to...
12-10-15 The wind has gently murmured through the blinds, or puffed(疏松的) with feathery softness against the windows, and occasionally sighed like a summer zephyr(和风,西风) lifting the leaves along, the livelong night. The meadow mouse has slept in h...
12-10-12 To commemorate my father's centenaries birthday, my elder brother, who lives in Yun Gui Plateau, and I went back to meet our sisters in hometown last July. Undoubtedly, this family reunion had brought tremendous excitement and happiness to our 5 sep...