Your abode! Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. -LEO TOLSTOY You come to home after a long and exhausting day with an aspiration of soothing and relaxing feel. Right? But it’s ...
Tags: House, DIY, Decoration
In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany recently shipped a comprehensive EpiCurve TT/Pyro 400 in-situ metrology hybrid system to an industrial customer in North America. The metrology station combines automated in-situ ...
Tags: MOCVD, GaN-on-SiC
Archaeologists unveil the tragic story of a historic sea battle more than a century ago as they excavate an ironclad warship, Wang Kaihao reports. An iconic Chinese warship and the 245 officers-soldiers and crewmen who have been keeping a ...
Tags: Archaeologists, Sunken Heroes
A champion of the yak as an emblem of the Tibetan highlands brings the spirit of the animal to a Beijing museum, Wang Kaihao reports. On China's online social networks, Wu Yuchu called himself Yagebo, which means old yak in Tibetan. An ...
Tags: Beijing museum, yak
The next entry in Crystal Dynamics’ Lara Croft trilogy is currently known as Shadow of the Tomb Raider. That is, according to a sneaky photo of a presentation a developer was caught looking at on the subway earlier this week. ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology fabricated on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, says that its LED lamps have been installed at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, Oxford, LED Lighting
Kodak will showcase its new KODAK NEXPRESS ZX3900 Digital Production Color Press at drupa 2016. The new press supports thicker paper and the use of synthetic substrates that will open up new opportunities for printers, including short-run ...
After unveiling its third generation of in-situ metrology tools last October, in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that the EpiTT Gen3 is now available as the first representative of this Gen3 product class. ...
Tags: UV LED epitaxy, sapphire
Performances of Peking Opera, which originated in the mid-19th century, are still popular among Chinese audiences. [Photo provided to China Daily] Early last year, when Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, suggested establishing a ...
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Admonitions Scroll (detail). [Screenshot of Google Cultural Institute site] Fans of the British Museum are now able to avoid the crowds to enjoy some 5,000 high-resolution images of the museum's collection online, including the ...
Beijing's Summer Palace, China's largest imperial garden, now has a smart phone app, which was released Tuesday. The app profiles 112 of the garden's popular areas and maps them using GPS, said a Summer Palace manager. The app is free to ...
Twenty-four solid gold ornaments dating back almost 2,000 years were returned to China without compensation on Monday, on the grounds that they had been looted from tombs in Gansu province and held by French collectors. Following a similar ...
Tags: French Collector, Gold Relics, artifacts
The blockbuster art show 15 Rooms, which opened at the Long Museum in Shanghai on Thursday, has created quite a stir. At the live-art exhibition, artists and artist groups from different cultural backgrounds present artwork through ...
Tags: Art Displays, Long Museum, collections
Much of East Asian culture can be traced to early Chinese civilization. Now the Tang Center, established at Columbia University in New York City, is unfolding ten millennia of China's cultural history and highlighting its importance today. ...
Established on Oct 10, 1925, the Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has come to symbolize Chinese culture all round the world. "In the late 1980s, people had to pay one yuan to visit the museum," said former ...