The Science Of The Siesta When you go back to work or class after lunch, why is it so hard to stay awake? Although we get energy from food, we also use lots of energy to digest it. Your energy use increases 25-50% as you digest a meal. With all that

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Why Does Crying Make Your Nose Run? When you burst out crying, you expect the bleary red eyes and the rivers of tears that stream down your cheeks. But on top of all that, your nose starts to run like a faucet. Why does this happen? Whats the connect

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What Makes White Gold White? Many people associate the metal gold with the color gold. But, some gold jewelry is not golden at all: its white. 图片1 Golden Color Gold is one of the heaviest and softest metals. Pure gold, called 24-carat gold, is so

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS -February 5, 2002: Digest VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with Science in the News, a VOA Special English program about recent developments in sci

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Unconscious Behavior And Psychology Social psychologists have long been intrigued by what they call automatic behaviorthe ways people react to stimuli without consciously thinking about their actions. 图片1 All Hot And Bothered In fact, it seems th

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How Do Iceboxes Work? Back when most folks relied on an icebox to cool food, a block of ice was a precious commodity. If you put hot food in the icebox, the ice might melt. And by the time the ice truck came through the neighborhood again, all your f

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What Are Blisters? Remember that hit song from the 80s that featured the chorus: And I would walk five hundred miles / and I would walk five hundred more / Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles / to fall down at your door? What sounds romanti

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Were Losing Niagra Falls! Niagara Falls has been a famous honeymoon spot for over a hundred years: some honeymooners have been more faithful to it than to each other. 图片1 When The Falls Formed Since the falls were formed during the late Pleistoce

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Working The Night Shift Its time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science, My husband works a night shift, and Im worried that it might be affecting his health. He sleeps during the day, but somehow

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Space Junk Threatens Earths Orbital Environment JIM TEDDER: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Jim Tedder. KATHERINE COLE: And Im Katherine Cole. Today, we tell about an ever increasing number of objects in

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AS IT IS 2016-02-26 Scott Kelly: Astronaut and Space Ape This is Whats Trending Today. On Thursday, American astronaut Scott Kelly held his last press conference from the International Space Station. His historic #yearinspace is coming to an end. But

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Mealworms Can Eat Plastic Waste 粉虱可以食用废塑料 Styrofoam is a plastic with a bad reputation. It cannot be recycled without releasing dangerous pollution into the air. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it is the fifth-largest

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unit 506 买杂志 dialogue 英语情景对话 There are thousands of magazines published in the world to meet the needs of different readers. But only a few of them are influential worldwide. 世界上有成千上万种杂志出版以满足不同读者

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18 科技新闻摘要(七) DATE=6-26-01 TITLE=SCIENCE IN THE NEWS #2130 - Digest BYLINE=Staff VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with Science in the News, a VOA Spec

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Clear Your Mental Space Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress, anger, or frustration. What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed

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In the US, Washington states aerospace industry has always been associated with industry giant Boeing, but that may be changing. A growing number of smaller businesses focused on commercial space flight are moving to the Pacific Northwest. Their numb

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As part of the plan, the latest step will be the launch of the second space lab, the Tiangong-2, which is scheduled for the third quarter of this year. Shortly afterward, the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft is due to carry two astronauts to dock with the lab

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Voice 1 Hello, Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Ruby Jones. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 This is the sound o

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