日期：2008-09-25 Apple's iPhone 3G has won a public vote to find the year's best gadget, beating strong competition from three games consoles, a laptop and a balloon-shaped iPod speaker system. The latest version of the mobile that combines a phone with a music and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-18 911恐怖袭击事件7周年纪念前夕，来自美国各地的民众来到纽约曼哈顿下城的炮台公园，签名悼念罹难者。他们签名的一根钢柱，未来将成为世贸遗址纪念馆整体建筑的一部分，永久地保留民众签名和留言。尽管世贸遗址纪念馆早已宣布开工，但因设计图纸及资金投入等问题，致使... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-18 近日发表在英国《自然》期刊上的一项研究指出，人类天生便具有数字直觉，这种直觉因人而异，并且与高等数学能力息息相关。科学家还发现，略估数字系统发达的人，数学成绩从小就很不错。专家表示，诸如觅食、在公交车上找位子，或者鸟类通过叫声次数来辨别求偶与警示信... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-18 A Japanese researcher says he has taught a beluga whale to talk by using sounds to identify three different objects, offering hope that humans may one day be able to hold conversations with sea mammals. Nack, a whale at the Kamogawa Sea World marine... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-18 Attention,amorous guys: Killarney's an Australian cutie, but woo her with care. The feisty gal once swatted at a beau who got a little close, and gave another poor fellow the cold shoulder during their introduction. Undaunted, Killarney's friends ke... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-10 Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available online, the Internet search leader said on Monday. In a blog post on the Silicon Valley-based company's website, G... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-10 Swedish researchers said Tuesday what women have suspected all along: that marital woes can often be attributed to men's genetic make-up, according to a study linking a common male gene to relationship problems. The gene variant, which is present in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-10 The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, US researchers said on Thursday. At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the opposite direction, ensuring a clean getaway, they said in a finding that hel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-09-07 An international standard for tomatoes has been adopted, ending about seven years of intense debates between countries on what qualifies as a proper tomato. According to the new standard, tomatoes may come in one of four varieties: round, ribbed, ob... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 火星上的生命 天文学家怀疑火星上存在或者曾经存在有微生物。ExoMars 计划是由欧洲太空总署资助的首个探索火星生命的项目。自从17世纪以来，人们对火星是否存在有智慧生物的可能性表现出了极大的兴趣。科学投机助长了这种乐观的猜测，即火星曾经向地球一样，有大陆、海... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 Life on Mars Life Marker Chip Astronomers suspect that microscopic life exists on Mars, or maybe it did. The ExoMars mission funded by the European Space Agency aims to find out. Since the 17th century the possibility of intelligent life on Mars has... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 Sound dies quickly in the cold， thin air of Mars. Researchers have modeled a sound wave traveling through the Martian atmosphere and report that it doesn't go fareven a lawn mower's roar dies after a hundred meters or so. The model presents an unus... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 Astronomers have discovered that， deep inside the biggest and brightest galaxies in the universe， jets are spewing particles from around black holes in an incredibly energy-efficient manner. If an automobile engine worked as well as one of these m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 THE ONE GREAT QUESTION left unanswered by the manned landings of the Apollo project in the1960s was the moon' s origin. Now a growing consensus among astronomers favors thegiant impacttheory，an idea that was discouned by most when it was first put... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 The rising and falling of the sea is known as rising tide and ebb tide. Why does the tide rise? Actually, it is the sun and the moon that are pulling the tide. When the water on one side is pulled, the other side of the sea falls. The earth has a sp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 Very， very high up in the sky there sometimes flows a stream of warm air. When it meets the cold air from the lower level， the cold and warm air mix and become cirrus. Cinus is a kind of very thin cloud. It cannot hide the moon. It only covers the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 Water always flows from a higher place to a lower place rivers and lakes are deep valleys on the earth. The snow water and spring rain water from the mountins rain water and ground water all flow into the deep valleys. Gradually， the deep valleys be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 When the sea appears on TV or in the movies， it always look endless. But do you know what it is like at the bottom of the sea？ The seafloor along the coast is a beautiful world. There are flat sand beaches and hilly mountains. On the mountains， t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 When the sun rises from the east in the morning and falls down in the west at dusk， it looks very round and big. But at noontime it looks small and the sunlight is strong. Does the size of the sun change three times a day？ When the sun rises and s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-30 As we already know， rain is drops of water from the cloud. If there is no cloud， there won't be rain. When it rains， clouds are generally very thick and the sunlight can not possibly shine through them. Therefore， we can not see the sun or the mo... 阅读全文>>