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Say what you will about the general usefulness of boys, it is my impression that a farm without a boy would very soon come to grief. 你认为农场少年能做什么？依我看，没有少年的农场真的会非常糟糕。 What the boy does is th

SSS 2010-03-30

This is Scientific American's 60-Seconds Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Elephants. Theyre the SUVs of the animal kingdom. Theyre big and rugged, and can carry lots of cargo. And now a study in the Proceedings of the National

SSS 2010-07-22

Imagine if before you took each step, your guts lurched up into your throat. Well, caterpillars dont have to imaginethey take such drastic steps every day. Researchers were interested in how fluids move around inside a caterpillar. So they put one on

SSS 2009-07-29

When Michael Phelps is out of the water, he towers over mere non-Olympic mortals. Then he slips into the pool, and makes record-breaking speed seem effortless. His height, it turns out, is no accident. According to research published in The Journal o

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His favorite hunting tactic is to come from below and behind his potential prey. 它最喜欢的狩猎策略就是从它潜在猎物的下方或者后面下手。 As the Meg closes in on the whale, he descends, in order to surprise him from below. 随着

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But we ourselves hadn't severed all ties with humanity. 但我们，我们不能与人类隔绝。 For my part, I didn't want my new and unusual research to be buried with my bones. 至于我，我不愿意把我如此奇特新颖的研究和我一起埋

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Animal And Machine

The body of an animal may well be compared with(1) some machine like a locomotive engine. Indeed, the animal body is a machine. It is a machine composed of(2) many parts, each part doing some particular kind of work for which a particular kind of str

SSS 2010-03-01

Big cats or wolves seem like scaled-up versions of the tabby or terrier sleeping on your sofa. But the proportions do subtly change as animals get larger. For one thing, big animals feet are smaller relative to their bodies than are smaller beasts. B

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Which species would take over the world if humans went extinct? 如果人类灭绝了，哪类物种会统治世界? 来自Quora的网友总结： Well it won't be fecking dolphins, that's for sure. Because: 当然，那TM肯定不可能是海豚。因

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The gut of the tobacco hawk moth caterpillar used in the study moves forward independently of, and ahead of, the surrounding body and wall and legs. By turning a powerful x-ray machine on a caterpillar, scientistists have discovered a novel way of mo

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By combining their isotope findings with other fossil residuespollen levels and so on, 把对同位素测量的结果和能够说明其他情况（如花粉浓度等）的别的化石残留物结合起来， scientists can, with considerable confiden

若人类灭绝了 地球谁来接管？

Which species would take over the world if humans went extinct? 如果人类灭绝了，哪类物种会统治世界？ 来自Quora的网友总结： Well it won't be fecking dolphins, that's for sure. Because: 当然，那TM肯定不可能是海豚。因

经济学人77:加拿大出土最早动物足迹

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双语有声阅读：动物与机器

Animal And Machine The body of an animal may well be compared with(1) some machine like a locomotive engine. Indeed, the animal body is a machine. It is a machine composed of(2) many parts, each part doing some particular kind of work for which a par

欧美人文风情第122篇:浩克了不起的特效

Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled, and I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster. Banner博士，你的工作是无与伦比的，而且对于你失去控制变成一个巨大的绿色狂怒怪物的方

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