You're hiking through the Rockies one day when you hear a low, ominous rumble. Landslide! Hundreds of tons of rock and soil are careening toward you at enormous speed. 一天，你徒步在岩石堆中穿行，这时你听到一阵低低的隆隆声，...
Sometimes it's easy to understand how an evolutionary change took place, but it's more difficult to understand why. 有时候去理解生物进化演变的过程很容易，想知道原因却很难。 For example, consider the beautiful birds of para...
If you keep a garden and have never been bothered by aphids, you are lucky. But one day you may find your rose bushes or bean plants covered--almost overnight--with these green, greedy sap-suckers. What allows aphids--and thousands of other species--...
A debate team from Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in the southern port city of Kaohsiung won the English as a foreign language (EFL) category of the Northeast Asian Open 2008 Debating Championship earlier this month. 文藻外语学院位于台湾...
If asked to imagine the first prehistoric tools, crafted and used by our early, hominid ancestors, you'd probably think of crude knives or spear heads, chipped from stone.You probably aren't aware of another human innovation that might be just as old...
In our beauty conscious culture, people will go to great lengths to improve their appearance. Liposuction, tummy tucks, silicone implants--it's all been done. But surely we wouldn't resort to injecting ourselves with a toxic substance that causes bot...
National Yangming University was recently the site of an international conference on the role of women in science. Arthur Chen, director of Yangming's Center of International Affairs, spoke of the pervasive influence of stereotypes in our lives. 国立...
Stroke is the number one cause of adult disability. But it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, if someone having a stroke gets to the hospital in time, drugs used to break up the blood clot in the brain that's causing the stroke can prevent much of...
The average American consumes over twenty gallons of milk per year. Today cow's milk and products made from it, such as butter, cheese and yogurt, are a regular part of the diet in most parts of the world. But did you ever stop to wonder when and how...
Dear Annie: My sister and her husband have some habits that really turn me off when I visit. They leave dirty pots and pans on the stove for weeks. They allow used dishes, cups and utensils to pile up in the sink until it is overflowing. They have a...
If you find yourself away from a city, spend an hour looking up on any clear, moonless night,you're bound to see a few brilliant shooting stars. These actually have nothing to do with stars: They're meteors, and if your viewing conditions are good, y...
It's time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. 又到了科学时刻读信时间。 A listener writes in: Dear A Moment of Science, I love to eat sweets--candy, cookies, caramel apples--- everything. But I don't like getting cavities. Is t...
Staring Eyes and Swiveling Necks 瞪大眼睛和旋转脖子 Ask any gradeschooler to imitate an owl and you'll probably get one of two responses: the giant, staring eyes or that amazingly swivel-prone neck. As it turns out, these two characteristic...
Twice in 10 years, Pablo Picasso's celebrated 1932 painting of his sleeping mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, made international headlines. 10年以来，帕勃洛毕加索1932年创作的名画再次引来国际媒体争相以大标题报导，画中人...
Look at a cloud-filled sky, then look again through a pair of amber sunglasses. 观察那布满云彩的天空，再戴上黄色镜片的眼镜去观察。 You'll be surprised to see the hazy, bluish clouds jump suddenly into focus, revealing a world...
