The American space agencys lander InSight is to arrive on Mars Monday. The event will mark the space agencys return to the planet. Unlike NASAs Curiosity rover, which arrived in 2012, InSight will not move across the planets surface. Instead it will

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The Croods is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. It features the voices of Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone. The film is set in a prehistoric era known as The Croodaceous, a period which contains f

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Detective? What'd you find? 探长?有什么发现? Merlyn Global's cyber security is off the charts. 梅林环球集团的信息安全工作做得很好。 Firewalls, NSA-grade I.P.Sec protocols... 防火墙,国家安全局级别的IP安全协议

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New NASA Mars Mission Will Study Deep Under Planets Surface NASA, the American space agency, is sending a robotic scientist to Mars. It will dig deeper than ever before to study the planets geological activity. The Mars InSight spacecraft launches Ma

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Swellings of the Earth 有地震! by Matthew Brown Earthquakes are unpredictable, powerful, and sometimes devastating. 地震不可预测且力量强大,有时还深具毁灭性。 9/1 Outside of war and disease, earthquakes have been the cause o

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary rickety: old and not well maintained seismic: related to vibrations of the earth monitor: to observe canyon: a deep valley with steep cliffs at ones own risk: no other person or group will take responsibility if something bad

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April 18, 1906, California's San Andreas Fault snaps, shaking San Francisco for nearly 60 terrifying seconds .When the trembling stops, the disaster is only beginning. Gas lines rupture, setting off massive fires, some 700 people die. Most of the ci

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The arrival of the P-waves in Valparaiso feels like a long sonic boom. Windows and buildings shudder. Some of the P-waves shoot up into the atmosphere, emitting a frightening roar. The secondary waves follow, carrying most of the earthquake's energy.

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The undertaking is happening tonight. 计划会在今晚进行。 Oliver, Felicity may have found something. 奥利弗,费利西蒂好像有发现。 This symbol is a map of the old subway tunnel system. 这个符号是过去的地铁隧道系统地图

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Sharon Meers was motivated to write Getting to 50/50 after observing this kind of tipping point firsthand. 莎伦密尔兹最先观察到这种临界点,并受此激发写出了《两性相处》一书。 In the late 1990s, Amy Goodfriend was chose

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Australian Scientists Propose a Telescope to Look Deep Underground Scientists in Australia want to build what they describe as a downward looking telescope to look for mineral wealth under the Earths surface. The telescope is really a project aimed a

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Message on World Tsunami Awareness Day 世界海啸意识日致辞 5 November 2016 2016年11月5日 Today marks the first observance of World Tsunami Awareness Day. On this day, in 1854, a Japanese village leader recognized the signs of an approachin

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - The Ever-Present Threat of Tsunamis BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. This week, we tell about tsunamis -- the deadly sea waves often caused by

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AS IT IS 2016-01-07 North Korea Says It Tested Hydrogen Bomb 朝鲜声称进行了氢弹测试 North Korea says it tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday. 朝鲜声称周三测试爆炸了一枚氢弹。 The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 5.1 magnitu

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App Feels Earthquakes Through Mobile Phones 能发出地震警报的手机应用 A new phone app uses vibrations from smartphones to alert people about earthquakes. 一种新的手机应用使用智能手机的震动来提醒人们地震的发生。

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岩石圈LITHOSPHERE 固态地球SolidEarth 洞穴Caves 地震活动Seismicactivity 地震监测Seismicmonitoring 火山Volcanoes 风蚀Winderosion 陆地生态系统TERRESTRIALECOSYSTEMS 土壤Soils 农

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The US government bond market ?suffered a fierce, renewed sell-off and the dollar powered to a 13-year high ?yesterday, as stronger economic data bolstered the case for an interest-rate increase and reinforced the view that the multi-decade bond bull

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China is frequently hit by earthquake. Now it's planning to build a national earthquake monitoring and warning system within five years to reduce casualties and economic losses. An official from the administration said while the system would not be a

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The State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense released 17 pictures captured by Gaofen-4 on Wednesday, covering an area of at least 400 kilometers. The project's chief designer, Tong Xudong, said Gaofen-4 is in good

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In an extraordinarily unself-critical book called Surviving Galeras, Williams said he could only shake my head in wonder when he learned afterward 但威廉斯毫不自责,在一本名叫《加莱拉斯火山幸存记》的书里说,当他后来听

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