This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? The Meridiana Planum region of Mars once had water that was really soft and highly acidic, conditions in incredibly hostile to any life forms that we know about. So any

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Hungry Lasagna So you made lasagna last night, and it was delicious. You saved the leftovers by wrapping aluminum foil over the top of the pan, and putting it in the fridge. When you get hungry today, you go to look for that lasagna, but it looks lik

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Fish raised in the more acidic seawater that would result from higher carbon dioxide levels forget to flee predators. More carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acidic. Those sour seas slow the grow

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More carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acidic. Those sour seas slow the growth of corals. And it turns out acidic seawater also makes clownfish and damselfish suicidally bold and reckless, accor

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Landfills produce methanewhich can be valuable as an energy source. But scientists haven't known why landfills make so much methane. The solid waste in

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, got a minute~ Theyre called hydogels: Jell-O-like materials made of networks of long-chain molecules in water. And theyre as flexible as living tissue. But hydrogels could not recov

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如果你爱喝葡萄酒或经常遇到要喝葡萄酒的场合,学几句高大上的品酒英语尤其重要。 品葡萄酒本节课的重点词汇: 1) wine tasting 葡萄酒品酒会2) tasting flight 品酒序列3) Cabernet Sauvignon 赤霞珠4)

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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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Amygdala's Acidic Aspiration Answer A study in the journal Cell shows that the buildup of carbon dioxide when we stop breathing causes a pH change that signals proteins in the brain to force us to inhale. Karen Hopkin reports. Maybe its happened to y

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Don comes up with another entrepreneurial venture, but Yael straightens him out just in time. [Thunder] Y: What are you doing outside, Don? It's about to rain. D: I'm setting up bottles. Y: I can see that. But why? D: For my new business venture: bot

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Acid Water Yal: What are you doing outside, Don? It's about to rain. Don: I'm setting out bottles. Y: I can see that. But why? D: For my new business venture. Bottled rainwater! Y: As in living plastic bottles out in the rain and then selling them as

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