第一次在纽约时报上看到这篇文章,记得是在一个晴朗冬日的午后。懒懒的阳光穿过图书馆陈旧的木窗,洒落在一排排报纸杂志上,我正犹豫着该拿份什么...
Hungry prehistoric hunters, not climate change, drove elephants and wooly mammoths to extinction during the Pleistocene era, new research suggests. 在约一万年前的更新世,大象和猛犸象从...
China has revalued its currency, the yuan, and linked it to a basket of currencies—though it is not yet clear how far it will be allowed to rise. The move may ease trade tension with America, though...
There's no solid evidence that video games are bad for people, and they may be positively good 没有任何可靠证据证明电玩游戏有损于人们的身心健康,相反他们或许还能发挥一...
August 18, 2005—Call it x-ray vision for archaeologists. High- tech scans and computer modeling have offered scientists a noninvasive glimpse inside the delicate burial case of a millennia- old mumm...
Before you next flush the toilet, consider this: Scientists in Singapore have developed battery powered by(用…推动的) urine(尿). 下次冲厕所之前,请不要忘记下面的介绍:新...
Ever since Walt Disney immortalized(使…成为不朽) interspecies friendships and talking teapots, anthropomorphism (attributing human traits and emotions to animals or objects) has been a movi...
Chinese companies are energetically wooing[vt.争求] execs away from multinationals[跨国企业] 中国企业正积极从跨国公司挖掘高级主管。 By just about any measure, Aaron Tong was a...
As time goes by / 时光流逝 Progress in predicting the outcome of relationships, and information about the genetic roots of fidelity, might also make proposing marriage more like a job application—...
These foolish things / 这些愚蠢的玩意儿 Of course, love is about more than just genes. Cultural and social factors, and learning, play big roles. Who and how a person has loved in the past are...
Love, love me do / 爱我,真心地爱我 Scanning the brains of people in love is also helping to refine science's grasp of love's various forms. Helen Fisher, a researcher at Rutgers University, a...
You might as well face it ... / 你或许也会面对它…… Sex stimulates the release of vasopressin and oxytocin in people, as well as voles, though the role of these hormones in the human brain...
Why do voles fall in love? / 为什么田鼠会坠入爱河? The details of what is going on—the vole story, as it were—is a fascinating one. When prairie voles have sex, two hormones called oxy...
I get a kick out of you / 我觉得你真带劲儿 Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people 科学家们发现爱情确实是人与人之间的一...
Mother's Day is A Celebration In Honor of All Mothers 母亲节是一个向所有母亲表达敬意的节日 Mother's Day will be celebrated on Sunday May 11, 2003. 今年的母亲节是5月11日(母亲...