
每日一翻:Looking Back On 40 Years of Lucy
Forty years ago yesterday, November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson found in Ethiopia what’s arguably the ...
Forty years ago yesterday, November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson found in Ethiopia what’s arguably the ...
Thanksgiving Day means [turkey noises] and [football noises]. And you know what: there might be more total action at the...
On average, every hour of every day more than 40 people drown around the world. That’s 372,000 fatalities annually. Drow...
The Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of some 3000 meters above sea level, is often called the ‘roof of the world.’ Some p...
You might think of weather as a local—or regional—phenomenon. But when it comes to lightning storms, what happens 93 mil...
Dust is a major annoyance for most of us, but to scientists it can be precious. Over the summer researchers identified s...
A passionate kiss shares much more than intimacy. A single 10-second smooch can transfer tens of millions of bacteria fr...
Robots have evolved in leaps and bounds in recent years, but they still cannot safely leap or bound. They have to move c...
We continually see losses of endangered and valuable animals and plants, from tigers and teak trees to rhinos and rhodod...
The path to solar roadways is said to be paved with good intentions. But actually it’s going to be paved with modular, c...