据《科学》杂志报道,苏联的月球车40年前在月球表面留下了激光反射器,虽然经过多年的搜寻科学家始终没有发现激光反射器的踪迹。 4月22日,一组物理学家终于发现了来自反射器的微弱闪

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美国佛罗里达州一国际机场与英国伦敦国际机场近日爆出安检丑闻,由于其安检设施形同虚设,致使一军火狂人从美 国走私了大量枪支进英国。据悉,从美佛罗里达州圣弗德机场起飞至英国的

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Students who listened to different chords rated as more pleasing the ones that westerners think of as harmonious, the individual notes of which have definite mathematical relationships 【英文文本】 Why do some chords sound sweet but others make

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Want to feed a hungry world? According to David Gracer, add bugs to the menu. Gracer is, he says, a normal guy whos also an entomophagist, an advocate for insects as food. He gave a talk about ingesting insects at a May 16th TEDxCambridge conference

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Could the eradication of smallpox have been a factor in the spread of HIV? Thats the question posed by researchers in the journal BMC Immunology, who think that the vaccine might have offered partial protection against HIV. As smallpox was wiped out,

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How do baby coral find a new home in the open ocean? They listen very closelyfor reef sounds. Scientists at the University of Bristol in England had already discovered in the last few years that baby fish who live among coral use sound to find the re

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Fungi with previous experience in bioremediation show promise for breaking down BPA, an endocrine disruptor, and plastics that contain them. Cynthia Graber reports 【英文文本】 Bisphenol A. Also called BPA, it's used to make shatter-proof plast

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1983年4月7日,美国"挑战者"号航天飞机在太空飞行期间,两名航天员在太空自由自在地飘飞行走了3个多小时.这是人类首次不系绳索自由地在太空行走. 航天员为何能在太空行走呢?原

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The Patriot Act and the Bioterrorism Preparedness Act were passed in 2001 and 2002. These laws in part cover research on pathogens and toxins thought to have potential as bioweapons. The Bush administration increased funding for research on such toxi

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Weve all agonized over difficult decisions. Go to college or backpack around Europe? Buy or rent? Apple pie or death by chocolate? Well, agonize no morebecause a study in the journal Science suggests that simply washing your hands after making a toug

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[Clip of Rodney Dangerfield, saying Its not easy being me; when I was born the doctor told my mother, I did all I could, but he pulled through anyway.] Rodney mighta felt badbut he should make you feel good. Because a new study shows that laughter ca

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The big dream for neuroscientists is to be able to watch our brain cells in action, in real time. Well, new research has maybe found the most promising tool yeta technique to watch individual neurons light up in response to a stimulus, like flipping

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This podcast is one minute long. If you listen while going for a walk in a park or working in a garden, youre 20 percent of the way to giving your mental health a good boost. Because exercising in natural areas is not only good for your physical heal

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A couple million years ago, mammoths migrated north from Africa to colonize Eurasia. Sometime around then a massive ice age kicked inand it was stay warm or die. So their tails and heat-shedding ears shrunk, and they grew thick coats of oily fur. But

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When my toddler hears a strange noise, hell say, Mom, what does that sound look like? His amusing phrasing innocently mixes sight and sound. But now a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain actually links the audio with the

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国内西式快餐的价格一直受大众瞩目。在我国,西式快餐巨头们以强大广告效应以及庞大连锁经营维持着连外国人都惊讶的价格体系。最近,不少以低价作为核心竞争力的西式快餐连锁店纷纷

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Time for M.I.T.s Clean Energy Prize. The annual competition gives teams of university students a chance to compete for $200,000 to kick-start their new clean energy business. One finalist designed a compression technology for natural gas wells that w

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After hundreds of years, the most common, basic microscopes still operate by means of the same old hardware: the lens. But what if you could do away with that lens and create a microscope that fits on a cell phone? Thats what researchers led by Aydog

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Soccer generates fewer performance statistics than does a sport such as baseball. A network analysis approach enables researchers to guage the value of individual players. Thats a shout World Cup enthusiasts dont hear too frequently. Soccers known fo

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I once took part in a vodka tasting contest, in which participants tried to tell an expensive brand from a cheap one. I dont recall the exact outcome, for obvious reasons. But I do know that several people swore they could taste the difference. Well,

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