SSS 2008-05-22

This is Scientific America's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Its hot to research life in extreme environments. There are organisms that thrive in boiling hot thermal vents and in toxic stews. These extremophiles, as

SSS 2008-09-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Theres a Native American site in Ohio that appeared to be a fort. But recent discoveries by archaeologists at the University of Cincinnati show thats n

SSS 2009-11-26

Roughly 1,000 years ago, Europe enjoyed several centuries of balmier average temperatures. Dubbed the Medieval Warm Period, it was the last time before the present that agriculture could flourish in Greenland. This era also provided fodder for countl

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(MA) Look at our topographical map and you'll see that the middle third of the North American continent --- from the Rocky Mountains almost to the Mississippi River --- is pretty flat. This is the Great Plains. This kind of area is sometimes called

‘One-in-a-Billion’ Dinosaur Discovery

About 110 million years ago, a large plant-eating dinosaur covered with sharp points walked the land. Called a nodosaur, it is now the best example of its kind ever found. This new species of dinosaur is being called a one-in-a-billion discovery. Rec

SSS 2010-04-09

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. As scientists delve deeper beneath the oceans surface, they find bizarre creatures that have adapted to harsh and extreme environments. Now comes a new o

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Lake Sediment Could Better Date Ancient Finds Radiocarbon dating is the best-known and most widely used method to determine the age of organic material, such as bone or wood or plant matter. All such material contains radioactive carbon atoms, known

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What then of manned space exploration? 那载人的空间探索呢？ The government recently announced plans to return to the moon by 2024. 美国政府最近宣布了2024重返月球的计划。 The successful conclusion of that mission will result

Chinese Help Rebuild New York

The 9/11 terrorist attack in New York not only killed people. It also killed local businesses, too, as many residents and companies moved out of the devastated area. 10 years on things are finally recovering. One Chinese restaurant has been part of t

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Microbe organize live in you ，on you ,in soil in clouds ,and below the ocean floor ,that last bags of single self.. is particularhard to study, not only the samples are difficult to obtain ,but they can easily be contaminated with all that other mi

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The geology of the planet 地球的地质情况 Welcome to the Anthropocene 欢迎来到人类纪 Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it, too 人类改变了世界运行方式，现在，人类不

澳科学家警告海平面上升问题

CANBERRA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have made the alarming discovery that sea levels have risen more in the past century than at any other comparable period in the past 6,000 years. Researchers from the Australian National University

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Beijing Youth Daily Public pool water quality available online The water quality of public swimming pools in Beijing can now be monitored by smartphone in real time. The Beijing municipal health authority has started a project to monitor the water qu

IOC begins on-site evaluation on Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The International Olympic Committee' s (IOC) Evaluation Commission on Monday kicked off its four-day visit in Japan's capital of Tokyo to assess the city's bid for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Tokyo visit is t

China lacks quality environment assessment agencies

BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- China lacks quality environment assessment agencies, according to a government report issued on Monday. The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) publicized a report after a three-year survey into the country's envir

IOC evaluation commission begins visit to Madrid

MADRID, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The bid from the Spanish capital city of Madrid to host the 2020 Olympic Games is under the spotlight when the Evaluation Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) visits the city to investigate the details

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托福阅读备考之长难句分析

世界本没有长难句，修饰成分多了，便有了长难句。 阅读速度大部分来于短时间内理解长难句的能力。 大家在看长难句的时候，多思考，一个句子为什么这么长，常见的修饰成分到底有哪些？

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This is the Education Ministry's first response to recent news story about Peking University's recruitment team in Sichuan province accusing Tsinghua's Sichuan recruiters of luring students to Tsinghua with money. The allegations were first published