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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Meatloaf, mac-and-cheese or a big bowl of mashed potatoes. We all have our comfort foods. Except for people with anorexia. Food makes them extremely unco

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For most of us, owing thousands of dollars in students loans, all while juggling crushing credit card debt probably sounds like a nightmare. But for people in their early to mid-20s, all that debt actually seems to boost their self-esteem. Possibly b

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You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, and you shouldn't judge a species by place of its origin, so say ecologists in the commentary in the Journal Nature. They argued that conservation should access organisms based on their impact on the local env

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The tomb of king Tutenkhamen better know as King Tut, has raised many questions over the years, what killed the young king, and what's the weird stuff on the walls, since the tomb was opened in 1922, tourists have peered the elaborately painted walls

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? When the internet first got kicking, some scholars of democracy and civil society thought that online discussions could create what they called a conversationa

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Apart from working and sleeping, the thing Americans do the most is watch TVfive hours a day on average. But all that time in front of the tube may up your ris

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Climate change affects seasonal eventsspring flowers open earlier, songbirds breed sooner. But what about mammals? A new study documents the effect on a

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. How many times has it happened to you: you're sitting around watching a rerun of Friends and you think: Man, if only I could catch a whiff of that hazeln

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Youre lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth. In no time(snoring). It turns out thats not just the relaxation of b

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This is Scientific American's 60 second science. I'm Steve Mirsky. At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting at Lindau Germany. This will just take a little bit more time than our usual may?. Edmond Fischer won the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine in

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau Germany.This will just take a little more time than our usual minute. Why do I talk so much on money, when I'm a professor public health?

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Theres one message waiting for you. Imagine that you wanna send a secret message to your colleague at the CIA. You can encrypt it to prevent counterspies from re

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Think of the weirdest creatures you've ever seen in a sci-fi film. Now think of this: there are far stranger, albeit smaller, critters living in your o

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Ever wander through a supermarket and past the open refrigerated cases that house cream cheese, butter and OJ? The refrigerated shelves are protected by jets of air that blow across the front. These jets form an air shield to keep the warm air out. T

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the nigh

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On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the night sky over Kazakhstan. The good news stops there. For instead of boosting itself

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Milan is one of Europes most polluted cities and that puts Leonardo da Vincis The Last Supper at risk. The painting has been on the wall of a dining hall in Milans Santa Maria Delle Grazie monastery for more than 500 years. Particulates in the air fr

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Bats see with their ears, which are highly attuned to pick up minute variations in the reflection of the sound pulses they use to echolocate. Here are so

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Why do cheaters cheat? Perhaps because they can think up original ways to avoid work: a new study finds that creativity is tied to a willingness to cheat. The work is in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The teacher hands back copies

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Three seconds to shoot. Its Reggie! And its Indiana by eight! Reggie Miller, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant. Theyve all gone on seemingly memorable shooting streaks. But past research has shown that the so-called hot hand is a myth, rooted in our tenden

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学英语单词
ballysadares
Begonia tuberhybrida
benews
blesseder
book-entry settlement system
bqe
British Virgin Islander
C. I. R.
capital share of national income
Cebitate
CF II
chaoul therapy
chaoul tube
chartaceus
clear title
combined schedule of investments by funds
container semi-trailer
crappier
cross-examinations
CTAB
deficit covering loan
deinstitutionalise
Deutzia heterophylla
DHO-DHASE
diver lock out submersible
down-and-outness
endogenic halos
Entrusted Tally
filmographic
flux fluctuation
fruit of needle juniper
glomming
greasing out
growlf
H type base
health foods
hemeralopic
high-tenacity yarn
hookham
how wide
I.M.
isosceles turning block linkage
kane
kingdom Monera
lactarine
lagging behind
locomotive waiting track
lotioned
margin trading
marginal rate of interest
missile position tracking group
motion compensator
Ngama
nonforest soil
nuh-uh
null object
numbers rackets
on-line program testing system
operating flowchart
optical power efficiency
Poplar-rust
potassium pyroantimonate,acid
priesthood
protobromide
pterygotids
pulsating aorta
reproportion
reservoir steam pipe
root crop bucket
sarcophaga serrata
scardamyxis
sensitivity constant
shoot tip
shunt
shut-off switch
single-column manometer
spasmaverine
spindles
Spitsbergen Current
stand apart from
sternogoniometer
suspenser
sweep the decks
swifter a lashing
São Martinho, R.
the dti
tigaldehyde
time image
Tinderella
to fit the bill
to the boil
tractor machine
TransGrid
tread width
tuning fork type ammeter
unimprisonable
unpowerful
vaccinin
velvet scoters
warrant issue prospectus
wet-and-dry
yao niang