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I Do a Lot of Office Fishing by Richard Salmon Some years ago, I started to look at the stars through high-powered binoculars and began reading books written by astronomers for people like me. I became an entranced stargazer for a while. The men who

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Being an American, Donna wants to learn more about the Chinese. She's talking to her Chinese friend, Jeff. D: Hi, Jeff! What's up? J: Nothing much. What about you? D: Same as usual. Here, have a stick

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute? Orbiting around stars far far away is sand. Astronomers have found sandy particles circling a pair of stars about 2,400 light years from us. And they think they might be

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin in the windthe solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining sola

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The Aeneid by Virgil 《埃涅阿斯纪》维吉尔 Mark first read the Aeneid while he was studying Latin in high school, and he recountedthe story of Aeneass quest and his desire to build a city that, he said, quoting the text in English, knows no

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The reason we can be reasonably confident that such an event won't happen in our corner of the galaxy, Thorstensen said, is that it takes a particular kind of star to make a supernova in the first place. 索尔斯坦森说，有理由相信，这种事

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The Aeneid by Virgil 《埃涅阿斯纪》维吉尔 Mark first read the Aeneid while he was studying Latin in high school, and he recounted the story of Aeneass quest and his desire to build a city that, he said, quoting the text in English, knows no

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 06 February 2008 Recent studies show that cigarette smoking is one of the most significant factors leading to gum disease. And now, new research indicates smoking marijuana also promotes gum disease even for those who

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China Lands Spacecraft on 'Dark' Side of Moon

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The leader of Fluminense's defense, Gum was announced on Tuesday to need a period of two months to recuperate from a detached tendon in his upper right thigh. With only 12 rounds remaining in the 2011 Brazilian Ch

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编者按： 我的存在有何意义？我也好，我的民族也好，我的世界也好，我们的存在能起什么作用呢？ 我生命的旅程向何处延伸，这个问题真的重要吗？是谁主宰着整个宇宙，他在想些什么呢？

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Shortly after Copernicus, in the 1580s, an Italian friar, Giordano Bruno, 哥白尼死后不久，在十六世纪80年代，意大利修道士焦尔达诺布鲁诺提出， suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the

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How old is the Earth? 地球的年龄有多大？ Well, by counting the number of isotopes in a sample of rock that's undergone radioactive decay, 通过对岩石样品中正经历着放射衰变的同位素计数， geologists have estimated the Ear

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It looks like a hand of God reaching out into the cosmos, but NASA says the display is caused by a young and powerful pulsar. Taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory from it's orbiting 360 miles above the Earth, the recently released photo of Pulsa

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Now as we pull away from this world -- we're going to keep pulling away from the star now. 现在，我们将视线从这个世界里移出来--我们从这个星球移出来了 One of the things that always frustrated me a little bit about astronomy

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