The Internet has a special talent for answering the questions we never knew we wanted the answers to. 对于一些我们以前想都没想过的问题，网络天生是有办法解答的。 And its most recent debate has sparked a massive upheaval am...
Africa Went a Year Without Any Polio 非洲没有小儿麻痹症满一年 On July 24, Nigeria marked one full year without a single new case of locally acquired polio, the crippling and sometimes fatal disease. It is the last country in Africa to sto...
North Korea today conducted a 'successful' hydrogen bomb test, Pyongyang has confirmed.The detonation of the thermonuclear weapon triggered a 5.1 magnitude earthquake when it exploded at 10am local time in the north east of the country, the tremors o...
Tu Youyou, a Chinese pharmacologist and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is getting an asteroid named after her. 近日，一颗小行星以中国药理学家、2015年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主屠呦呦的名字而命...
Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told a news briefing yesterday that the 50,000-ton vessel is being built in the north-eastern port city of Dalian. He stressed that China remains committed to peaceful development and to a defence policy that is...
Construction of the world's largest passenger terminals has begun at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, with completion set for 2019. 上海浦东国际机场已开始建设全球最大的候机卫星厅，预计将于2019年建成。 The new fac...
The Philippines said Wednesday it will join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite being engaged in a dispute with Beijing over its claims in the South China Sea. 据报道，菲律宾不顾与中国政府关于南海领土划分...
Wealthy Chinese undergraduates aren't the only ones looking to get a college degree in the U.S. So are a growing number of Chinese students from lower middle-class families who are enrolling in community colleges. 富有的中国大学生现在并不是...
A picture of an '800-year-old mobile phone' has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive - again.The supposed archaeological find - which bears a striking resemblance to a 1990s mobile phone - has gone viral and prompted much discussion online. 一张...
Of course you want to sleep with your pet. She is cuddly and warm and (usually) takes up less room than a human. 你当然想和你的宠物一起睡啦，它那么可爱，又暖和，（通常）还比人占地儿少。 But the sad truth is that sh...
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance 1. 阿什利万斯《伊隆马斯克：特斯拉、SpaceX和探索充满幻想的未来》 The most innovative and intriguing entrepreneur of our time is ushering in a fut...
In 2015, there was no shortage of moments that made us grin from ear-to-ear. 2015年的确有不少让我们笑得合不拢嘴的时刻。 We rounded up some of the year's most feel-good stories that'll make you look back fondly on the past 12 months...
Turns out, 2015 has been a year of great advice. 事实证明，2015年带给了我们很多影响深刻的建议。 Thanks to Tumblr, there's a way to catalog some of these amazing quotes, courtesy of everyone from billionaire superstars to teen blo...
Japanese bookseller Yoshiyuki Morioka has come up with a highly unusual concept for a bookstore he sells one book at a time in a tiny shop located in Ginza, Tokyos luxury shopping district. Ever since he launched the store in May, he has stocked mult...
Learn Spanish? Finally quit smoking? Become a better cook? Whatever you've decided to achieve next year, you know all too well that you're probably going to fail, and that list of beautiful, aspirational goals is staying unfulfilled. Sorry. 想要学好...
