Instead he was keenly interested in product design and aesthetics (美学), and in making advanced technology simple to use. He repeatedly took an existing but half-formed idea-the mouse-driven computer, the digital music player, the smartphone, the tablet computer(平板电脑)-and showed the rest ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest known stars ever to be detected – they used to exist when the Universe was just a 300 million year-old baby, and before our galaxy the Milky Way was formed. This study – involving scientists from Australia, the UK, the US, Sweden, Poland, German...
When I was 4 years old, my aunt put a pair of headphones around my ears one day. For the first time I listened to classical music. My first experience with it was 1 . The moment she put those headphones on, I stopped everything and stared 2 out into the universe, 3 by what was...
Long time ago, there was a man from Xihe of Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD) named Wu Gang. He once followed the immortals to develop himself and became an immortal, too. However, when in the heaven, he made a mistake and was banished to the moon to chop the...
Most galaxies arebetween 10 billion and 13.6 billion years old. Our universe is about 13.8 billion years old, so most galaxies formed when the universe was quite young! Astronomers believe that our own Milky Way galaxy is approximately 13.6 billion years old. ...
as well as for advancing our understanding of planetary and stellar evolution. The discovery of this binary system – the most extreme of its kind known so far in terms of temperature – was made through analysis of spectroscopic data gathered by the European Southern Observatory’sVery Large Tel...
When was the International Space Station launched? When was Kuiper belt formed? When does a meteoroid become a meteorite? Where was Comet ISON in 2015? When was Sputnik invented? When did modern astronomy begin? When did Edwin Hubble discover the expanding universe?
Teamwork is most effective when team members share the same culture. 出自-2017年6月阅读原文 People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information. 出自-2017年6月阅读原文 One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a...
Feeding off the energy of interaction and excitement, I was, for a time, a people person, or so I’ve been told. Watching The Empire Strikes Back is one of the last fully formed memories of my childhood. It all comes back with perfect clarity: the patterns of the oriental rug I sat...
By transforming light-quenching hydrogen atoms into ionized gas, ultraviolet starlight may have formed overlapping, giant bubbles filled with ionized hydrogen throughout the early universe. (Image credit: NASA, ESA and V. Tilvi (ASU) It was a big moment for our cosmos when the first stars ...