This is AP news minute. 1. Residents up and down the east coast are bracing for Hermine, after the storm tore through Florida early Friday, killing one person, damaging property and cutting power to hundreds of thousands. 2. Former Stanford universit

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2016(九)月

AS IT IS 2014-07-22 NASA to Discover Life in Outer Space 美国国家航空航天局在外太空发现生命 NASA scientists say they are closer than ever to finding life beyond Earth. Several leading NASA scientists spoke to a gathering July 14th at

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Gravitational Waves Detected, Einstein Is Right 引力波存在证明爱因斯坦是正确的 尽管花费了100年时间,最终科学家还是证明了爱因斯坦的理论是正确的,引力波确实存在 The waves were predicted as part of Ei

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Here is a computer simulation. 这是计算机模拟。 And we need a way to simplify it. 我们需要简化它的方法。 Well, I like to think about this using an analogy. 我会用一个类比来理解。 If I want to understand the sinking of th

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

Here is an image. 这是一张照片。 Since galaxy clusters are representative slices of the universe, scaled-down versions. 因为星团可以看做是宇宙的缩小版。 They are mostly made up of dark matter, 它们也是大部分由暗物质构

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Metal fatigue in old aircraft 老旧飞机的金属疲劳 Flying rivets 飞行侦查兵 A new technique that listens for cracks in ageing aircraft 一项侦听老化飞机断裂的新技术 WHEN they were built, no one th

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The reason we can be reasonably confident that such an event won't happen in our corner of the galaxy, Thorstensen said, is that it takes a particular kind of star to make a supernova in the first place. 索尔斯坦森说,有理由相信,这种事

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Supernovae occur when a giant star, one much bigger than our own Sun, collapses and then spectacularly explodes, releasing in an instant the energy of a hundred billion suns, burning for a time brighter than all the stars in its galaxy. It's like a t

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

A mother and daughter team are toasting their incredible success at one of the world's top beauty pageants. 一对母女组合在世界顶级选美比赛中取得了不可思议的成功。 Sarah Louise Pritchard, 41, and Ella Ravenscroft, 18, were c

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

Thousands of comic book and fantasy fans have headed to London's Film and Comic Con for a host of fandom-related fun. While cosplay is the trend turning many heads, traditional collecting is also in the throws of a film-fuelled rebirth. From RoboCop

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Samsung Electronics is recalling about 2.8m washing machines in the US over injury risk caused by a top lid detachment. 由于洗衣机顶盖脱离有伤人风险,韩国电子巨头三星电子将在美国召回约280万台洗衣机。 This recall

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

In an effort to get US customers to turn off their explosion-prone devices, Samsung will be issuing a software update on Dec 19 that can make the Galaxy Note 7 useless bricks. 三星公司将于19日发布可以使盖乐世Note 7变成无用砖块的软

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The forecast for David Ayer's Suicide Squad is looking good. 由大卫阿耶执导的《自杀小队》目前看来钱景一片光明。 If early tracking is any indication, the Warner Bros. and DC superhero movie could open to an enormous 125 millio

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Science and technology 科学技术 Metal fatigue in old aircraft 老旧飞机的金属疲劳 Flying rivets 飞行侦查兵 A new technique that listens for cracks in ageing aircraft 一项侦听老化飞机断裂的新技术 WHEN they were built, no

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De Duve thought it likely that such conditions would be encountered perhaps a million times in every galaxy. 德迪夫认为,很有可能,这样的条件在每个星系里大约会遇到100万次。 Certainly there is nothing terribly exotic in t

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- A team of researchers has discovered a planet that orbits around a pair of stars, the U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. This is the first instance of astronomers finding direct evidence of a so-called circumb

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美剧《生活大爆炸》搞笑主题曲:Big Bang Theory Artist:Barenaked Ladies Song:Big Bang Theory Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, 宇宙一度又烫又稠密 Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... 140亿年

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Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, 宇宙一度又烫又稠密 Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... 140亿年前终于爆了炸 等着瞧... The Earth began to cool, 地球开始降温 The autotrophs began to dr

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宾语从句是名词性从句的一种。在主从复合句中充当宾语,位于及物动词、介词或复合谓语之后的从句称为宾语从句。宾语从句分为三类:动词的宾语从句,介词的宾语从句和形容词的宾语从

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Combining Leavitt's cosmic yardstick with Vesto Slipher's handy red shifts, Edwin Hubble now began to measure selected points in space with a fresh eye. In 1923 he showed that a puff of distant gossamer in the Andromeda constellation known as M31 was

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