Well, that's limelight. What exactly was it? Well it was the burning of calcium oxide in a very intense flame. And when did the job of a limelighter begin? Oh, famously, the first recorded instance in

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The Chesapeake Bay could get helped by a new antipollution expert: farmed oysters. For decades, the Chesapeake has been plagued by excess nutrients, such

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The Earths original atmosphere would have been unpleasantdeadly in factto any organisms that breathe oxygen. There wasnt any. Not until about 2.4 billi

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Good afternoon, I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. We begin with the sentencing phase for a former Ohio cop convicted of double murder. Earlier this month, the jury found Bobby Cutts

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar panels typically convert sunlight into electricity or heat. But photosynthetic vegetation converts sunlight into chemical energy. Now M.I.T.s Dan

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One main goal in the renewable energy field is to find an efficient, inexpensive way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen could then be used as a fuel source for vehicles or fuel cells. Typically, an electric current breaks the water

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It sounds either really crazy, or kind of obvious. But according to new research, pick-up soccer could help homeless men avert the risk of an early dea

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Mars 火星 Mars is a planet. 火星是行星。 It is next to the Earth. 它紧邻地球。 Its size is about one fourth of the Earth. 它约有四分之一个地球大。 Mars is not far from the Earth, but the environment is very different. 火星离

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BERLIN, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A study recently published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology opens up new avenues in biohydrogen research, the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) said on Friday. Scientists at the TU Berlin succeeded in expla

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The U.S. space agency is moving ahead with preparations for Thursday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle(航天飞机) Discovery on its mission to the International Space Station. NASA said it was loading liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into th

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