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Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years blanketed the countrys east coast Wednesday in a cloud of red outback grit. The reddish pall swept into the cities of Sydney and Brisbane overnight, bringing an eerie orange dawn to Sydney. The color was amazi

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Devil's Hole, where the earth opens to reveal a rare window into Death Valley's most implausible underworld, a universe of water. In twisted irony, the driest place in the hemisphere sits atop one of the largest aquifer systems in the United States,

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The picturesque Western Cape mountain range at the southern tip of Africa lays claim to one of the world's most diverse floral kingdoms. And researchers are scouring the mountains in search of the droppings and urine of a small local inhabitant which

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Sycomore figs are found throughout tropical Africa. In Southern Kenya they thrive along river banks. This is the story of one of those trees. Our African queen is a mature sycomore fig. She started life as a seed one hundred years ago. She provides f

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As five European foreign ministers meet in Copenhagen to prepare for an aggreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, scientists in Greenland are warning about accelerated glacier melts. Several years ago, scientists reported that the Helheim Glacier, su

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Autumn in the Rocky Mountains, a time of change. Aspens turn golden and the bull elk, in the midst of their mating season, work hard to catch the eye and ears of the ladies. Up in the highest peaks, another call rings out. It's the pint-sized prince

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As thousands of turtles arrive at a beach in Oaxaca, Mexico, to lay their eggs this season, federal and local authorities have been deployed to protect them against poachers. As the turtles nest on the Pacific coast, Mexican Navy patrols keep watch a

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Off the coast of Boston, scientists scan the horizon for something largehumpback whales. In the busy waters of the Stellwagen Bank, National Marine Sanctuary, whales must navigate around submerged fishing gear. And on the surface, collisions to the s

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The tiny northern corroboree frog of Australia is only just hanging on. Populations of both the northern and southern corroboree frogs have declined catastrophically in the wild over the last two decades. The primary culprit is the deadly chytrid fun

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Archeologists in Italy have unearthed a sprawling country villa they believe to be the birthplace of Vespasian, the Roman emperor who ordered the beginning of the Colosseums construction during his reign. The 2000-year-old ruins were found about 80 m

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A walking humanoid robot(类人机器人) able to use its whole face and body to express emotion was unveiled this week in Japan. The robot was created by scientists at Tokyo's Waseda University and its makers say its the first of its kind. It is abl

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This weekend Why Tell Me Why were answering a viewer question about lightning safety. So you want to find out where the safest place to be is in the lightning storm. So where is the safest place to be? Actually, the safest place to be is inside an en

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The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth and runs more than 50 miles in length and stretches 11 miles across its wildest point, bordering Israel, The West Bank and Jordan. Large sections of the coast are fenced off and sign posted in Hebrew and Engl

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Rick swims through a shadowland thousands of feet deep. Out of the dark, animals can materialize not just from in front or behind, but above or below as well. Were down swimming around in that dark sea, looking in a miniature world and suddenly I fee

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The sharks are under increasing threat around the world from overfishing. They are used as a food item in many parts of the world. Shark fin soup is particularly popular in Asian countries. And sharks are easy to catch. You put a baited hook in the w

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This week on Why Tell Me Why, we are finding out why the oceans are so salty. So the oceans are salty because the oceans have been around, lets say, for over five hundred million years. And over the course of time what we found out is that weve alway

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Chinese archaeologists have started to excavate more of the life-size terracotta warriors at the famed ancient tomb of the country's first emperor. China state TV on Sunday showed archaeologists uncovering more of the elaborately carved soldiers, to

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Kasey on Why Tell me Why. Someone asked why veins are blue and blood is red. So that's part of this question: why do we have different blood types? Blood types are inherited, just like you inherit your eye color, or your hair texture, so you get a ge

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Hi, its Kasey-Dee Gardner, in this weekend Why Tell Me Why will answer an interesting viewer question. The viewer wants to know why certain species die after they reproduce. So, we're here to find out the answer. Urn, so there are a bunch of species,

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Well, the story of the earth spin goes back all the way to the origin of the solar system, four and a half billion years ago. The solar system started out as a cloud of gas and dust. And these gas and dust clumped together to form the sun and the var

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学英语单词
AFDET
African typanosomiasis nagana
anhydrocellulose
asphalt tank with heater
aster subulatus sandwicensis
banken
bone me
books of judges
Bosanquet's law
bottom-dump skip
cadw
carbonyldioxy
carved porcelain
cbs (columbia broadcasting system)
coating products
cold flashing
cooperating
corpse camped
cylinder cuff attaching machine
damnacanthal
defence forces
Digitaria ternata
disk saw
dr.eric
dromaeognathus
electric radiat heater
environmental chamber
Escorpal
exit speed calculation
exotified
expenses fund deposit
expulsionism
extradosed
firing proof
fluoroantimonate
Gandy-Gamma nodules
glue-joint strength
gone whole hog
graphical expansion
gypsum block
heavy resinous petroleum residue
high-velocity neutron
hoback pk.
homothetogenic fission
huge-screen
insulated brush holder
jerkings
kacheris
keep their eyes open
laryngorrhoea
lead from the front
lind coal
logical break point
louver sieve
main machinery control room
maintenance software
malacology
manipulating an image
Marengo County
mass load
master operation system
menelkosis
methyl n-heptyl ketone
mineragraphic microscope
Nirwāno
ofhiss
pig together
pinaolone
piscence
plain language
plasmonic
polygenically
proprietarious
red tetrazolium
rhamphothecae
robust test
rock bass
satin draft
sclerosing osteogenic sarcoma
sea daffodils
senile lentigines
set a limit
sound intensity discrimination
spectral reflective characteristic of green plant
spirochetoses
sporulative
stasimetry
subquadratic
superferromagnetism
superplant
symmetric cone
tallgrass prairie
tensile strength perpendicular to grain
thermal printers
touch the ground
trimming lathe
UBV photometry
vacancy possession
veloso
water-boatman
wolf sbane
Wolff-Calmette reaction