Washington governor Jay Inslee says he's ordered immediate steps to correct a computer glitch that allowed several thousand prisoners to be released early. Computers were miscalculating sentences for some inmates, letting about 3 percent of the priso

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Script: (Thanks to all participants) Sometimes a peripheral character just grab center stage. Like Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. This is a dish where that exact thing will happen. Glazed carrots. To make this dish, we are gonna take sliced carrots a

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1. A surgeon who contracted Ebola died on Monday. He has been cared for at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Doctors say the 44-year-old was in extremely critical condition when he arrived at the Hospital over the weekend. He contracted the

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This is Scientific American's 60s Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Think about the tools used by biologists, perhaps test tubes and microscopes come to mind. But what about diapers? No, it's not the investigators in their work

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Knot Not Easy to Knot 看结容易 打结难 Of the many puzzles mathematicians ponder, one is new ways to tie knots. There are more than six billion different types of knots that have been tabulated by mathematicians. Six billion. David Leigh, a che

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Heres something we tend to take for granted: drop a few ice cubes into a glass of water at room temperature, and in a few minutes the water will cool. How does this work? 有件事情我们总觉得理所当然:室温下把一些冰块放入水中,

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Weve all been hearing about ongoing Mars exploration, and how water probably used to be abundant there. And a water spewing volcano was recently discovered on a small moon orbiting Saturn. Water is one sign that life may exist or have existed at some

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今天我们要学的词是tit-for-tat. Tit-for-tat意思是针锋相对,以牙还牙。Islamist militants' attacks and tit-for-tat violence between rival ethnic groups have cast doubt on Mali's upcoming elections. 伊斯兰国激进分子的袭击和

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Mosquitoes, Not Birds, Made West Nile National In 1999 West Nile virus infected its first American, in New York. By 2004, the disease had spread across the country. Researchers speculated that, for the disease to spread so far so quickly, birds must

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在《科学》杂志上的一篇研究中,研究者们描述了青春期时人体内细胞和分子的改变,正是这种改变促使这段时期的人们智力水平低下。 Ah, puberty. A time for raging hormones, growing independence and bei

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Hyaluronic acid - the largest glycosaminoglycan known, it plays an important role of restricting the flow of water in tissues, particularly in synovial fluid where it acts as a lubricant.. Hydrogen bo

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1. A Colorado sheriff says he's pursuing criminal charges in the case of a six-year-old boy who hided home as millions thought he was floating over Colorado in the helium balloon. The boy's parents met with investigators Saturday. The sheriff hasnt

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1. Federal Drug Enforcement Agency showed up an announcement to check the medical staffs of three NFL teams that were playing on the road. The DEA spokesman said no arrests were made following inspections of the 49ers, Buccaneers and Seahawks medical

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1. An American journalist says he is overwhelmed by the brave efforts to secure his release from a Syria extremist group. Peter Theo Curtis made his first public appearance since returning home last night. He has been held for nearly 2 years. 2. Poli

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Nano Tool Watches Teardrop Protein Destroy Bacteria About a hundred years ago, a Scottish biologist discovered that proteins called lysozymes in human tears can kill bacteria. Scientists have studied the enzyme extensively, but molecular biologist Gr

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Body odor. The smell of BO is unmistakable. And the culprit(犯人) behind that signature stench(恶臭) is a molecule called thioalcohol(硫醇). Our noses are so attuned(理解的) to it, we can pick up quantities as small as one part per trillion.

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Heat Sensor Has Snaky Sensitivity敏感如蛇的热传感器 One of the most exquisite heat sensors in the worldits not in some government lab. It's in the head of a snake. The pit viper, to be specific. 世界上有一种最精敏的热传感器,它

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今天我们要学的词是underground。 Underground, 地下。为防止辐射物质通过土壤和地下水系统的扩散, The Japanese government is considering building an underground barrier near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, 日本政府正

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Refugee advocates claim asylum seekers in Manus island have been denied drinking water and warned the move could have fatal consequences.Asylum seekers have been protesting several days over plans to have them resettled in PNG.Protesters on hunger st

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Microwaves heat water by jerking the water molecules around, so to speak. Each water molecule has a slight positive electric charge on one side and a slight negative charge on the other. As microwaves pass by, they exert forces on those charges, firs

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