You've heard the stories: late at night a man is awakened in a state of unexpected anxiety, to find himself suddenly unable to move. Weird, humanoid-looking figures stand around, looking on while the terrified fellow is caught in an eerie state of im

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Experiencing Virtual Reality Tatiana: Why are you wearing those funny goggles? Moustafa: Im trying out a new kind of virtual reality. Tatiana: You mean like flight simulators? Moustafa: This is much more sophisticated. This system creates a complete

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Scientists: Spiders Use Electric Fields to Move through Air Scientists have long wondered how spiders can use the webbing they make to fly. The 19th century English naturalist Charles Darwin commented on their behavior when very small spiders landed

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Dogs Being Trained to Detect Prostate Cancer 训练狗来检测前列腺癌 Many urologists agree that the current, so-called PSA test for detecting prostate cancer is often unreliable, but it remains widely used because there are no other tests. Res

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This is Scientific American 60 second science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? If you've ever dined with a stuffy nose, you know that what you smell strongly influences what you taste. But what you see matters too. Even the color of a cup

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The Hammerheads Hammerhead These unique sharks have heads resembling flattened, T shaped hammers. But how would such a weird head evolve? One hypothesis is that having their eyes spaced far apart might give these sharks better 3D vision. Another hypo

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Have you ever heard the color blue? Or tasted the musical note F-sharp? For most people, in both cases the answer is no. But for some people blue has a particular sound or shape, and F sharp has a slightly sour taste. This unusual blending of the sen

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The sperm whale hits him dead in the centre of his body throwing the Megalodon's enormous weight in a tumble motion under the ocean. 抹香鲸结结实实地撞中它的身体中间,把巨齿鲨庞大的身躯撞得在海洋中翻滚。 The Megalod

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The big dream for neuroscientists is to be able to watch our brain cells in action, in real time. Well, new research has maybe found the most promising tool yeta technique to watch individual neurons light up in response to a stimulus, like flipping

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Habitat - a location which has a suitable environment for an organism to live in. Caves are natural habitats for bats, trees for birds; oral surfaces and crevices, for some bacteria. Haemostasis - the

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Paracrine - cell messengers also called cytokines which are locally acting, produced by neighbouring cells or the extracellular matrix, as distinct from as distinct from endochrine or hormonal messeng

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Saturated solutions - Salts such as the apatites do not readily become ionized and dissolve in water. When no more ions can dissolve the solution is said to be saturated. The concentration of ions in

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199. Another sermon再一次布道 seinsitive-shell The Reverend Jessie Johnson gives another sermon: My brethren, tonight Im gonna talk about a sensitive topic. Its about what the Lord can do for you and what you can do for the Lord. I want you all

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One Billion Young People Risk Hearing Loss From Loud Music 十亿年轻人因为听大声的音乐面临失去听力的危险 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report. 美国之音这里是健康和生活方式报道。 One

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Children that suffer from sensory processing disorder may pose great challenges for a family. After his only son was diagnosed with the disorder, famous rock singer Qin Yong decided to leave Black Panther, one of the best-selling hard-rock bands in C

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A familiar legend is that when people get lost in the woods, they walk in circles. Now, according to research conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany, this is a natural human behavior. What we found was

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During its magnetic cycle, the Sun undergoes periodic changes in activity. Every 11 years, it enters solar maximum. This 11 years cycle of solar activity has peaks where theres lots of solar storms. And right now where the sun is taking a little napp

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Doctors and researchers are applying lessons learned from treating survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 to advance prosthetics. A new amputation procedure saves tendons that are normally severed. CRI's Yu Yang has the story. Survivor Marc

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今天我们要学的词是 private sector. Private sector 私有部门。India has named private sector managers to oversee reforms of some state-controlled banks. 印度政府任命一些私有部门高管,负责监管某些国家控股银行的改

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Although snakes often have very sharp vision, a sense of smell, and a sensitivity to heat, their most important sensory system is one that we humans dont share with them at all. This sixth sense is called the vomeronasal system, and the sense organs

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