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Its probably happened to you: a friend says, I know this place like the back of my hand, and then proceeds to get you hopelessly lost. Well, it could be that they really did know it like the back of their hand. Because researchers have found that peo

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Spotted hyenas grunt and growl. But you know what they're famous for. So what's all the laughing about? Well, field researchers have noticed that groups of hyenas tend to giggle around a kill, while they're waiting for their hunk of meat. Now a study

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? A direct effect on human health related to climate change is the likely increase in infectious diseases transmitted by insects or through contaminated water. In the Marc

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The National Safety Council estimates that 28 percent of all highway accidents and deaths are caused by drivers paying poor attention to the road because theyre holding

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Quality truffles can sell for more than a $1000 a pound. Theyre also valuable in environmental research, work thats discussed in an article called The Hidden Life of Tru

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Everyone makes mistakes, especially when it comes to entering numbers into a calculator or spreadsheet. Its not such a big deal if youre tracking how much

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. If you want to shell a walnut, it helps to have a nutcracker. And if you want to digest seaweed, it helps to have the right enzymes. Now, a study in the jo

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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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Here in New York, the pending state budget includes one provision thats probably making more news than the rest of the budgets contents combined: a tax on non-diet soda and other high-calorie drinks. If the budget is passed by the legislature, sugary

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People start stereotyping early. Even toddlers react positively to members of their own race, but often distrust those from different groups. The seeds of racism are planted in most everyone. Everyone, that is, except people with a rare genetic condi

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One main goal in the renewable energy field is to find an efficient, inexpensive way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen could then be used as a fuel source for vehicles or fuel cells. Typically, an electric current breaks the water

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The Texas Board of Education has long promoted the teaching of creationism in schools instead of actual science. Its former chairman and current member Don McLeroy uttered this immortal line when confronted with numerous actual scientists urging that

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Ahhh, sleep. Theres nothing better than a nice, long, uninterrupted [LOUD NOISE]. Awwgh. I cant sleep when theres [NOISE]. But dya ever notice: noise [NOISE] doesnt wake everyone. Now scientists have a better idea why. Because sound sleepers show a c

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This is Scentific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? At Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, California, a plant called Tidestroms lupine is holding on for dear life. Its survival has been threatened by the appear

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Most of us know we should rein in our energy use. But to be successful, it'd help if we knew the best way to do it. So scientists asked more than 500 peo

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Shakespeare noted that a worm may eat a king, after that king is dead. Sadly, parasitic worms infect people who are still alive, especially kids. Publi

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When you think of someone who's trusting, you may assume that theyre gullible. But that's not necessarily truea fact that your Pollyanna pal might be in

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Theres been an unexpected development in our understanding of drug resistance in bacteria. The accepted scenario was a simple case of evolutionary selection. In a bacterial population exposed to a killer drug, a few lucky individuals might have a gen

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We all know that elephants arent really scared of mice. But a new study shows that theyre really not crazy about something even smaller: ants. In fact, elephants dislike ants so much that they avoid acacia trees that harbor the tiny, six-legged necta

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Diseases can spread quickly. Someone with a cold infects a few casual contacts, who in turn infect others. Ideas can also spread that way, along so-called random networks. But Damon Centola at MIT says that ideas and beliefs spread faster and more ef

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学英语单词
a tooth for a tooth
absolute radial velocity
aeolian harps
after-table
All-India Trade Union Congress
arterial
atypical drowning
augend register
Betnesol
blackpolls
blogrolls
bright fringe
brother-husbands
Bukalo
bull and bear bond
chronic regional enteritis
classification of track
clonazoline
column density (n)
comercial science
cyanometer
Dall.
deodorizations
depot workshop
diagnostic reagent
Dimorphostracus
double-jeopardy
Druzhkivka
drywell cooling system
Elatostema yaoshanense
ensenat
exit condition
Fulford
functional reliability
general interests
glowing filament pyrometer
gouging blow pipe
Great Escarpment
hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE)
hay belly
hexeity
hydrolanthanite
hydroxy-farreol
Ianthe, L.
ichthyurus heidiae
impulse transferor
in a million
intolerence
ionotro
knapsack duster
lagging board
lampanyctus tenuiformis
lavergeneric term for genus porphyra
liquor lounges
lithium iron phosphate
Luvistin
make a monkey out of
market financing
minderwert
mustard-seeds
naphthenic base
naturopaths
number-theoretical
office boys
Orion Molecular Cloud 2
pass judgement
penghawar djambi
peritectic transformation
pha-m
Pieris taiwanensis
play ... for
quarrel (burner)
R factors
readfrom
reddish black
reserve cell hyperplasia of cervix uteri
ridge basalt
rig for stroke drilling with stabilizing fluid
Rüthi
sand heap analogy
sccs (standby core cooling system)
sceneshifting
slackenings
speed dialling
straw storage pile
superbest
surface treating machine
tetradactyl
thirdling
throw ... off
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
train operation control system
transverse top-wall slot
tugtupite
turks head roll
unaspis yanonensis (kuwana)
unparriable
webbing loom
wind someone a pirn
wire-wound
workshop section
you really tried