万物简史 第478期:生命在前进(20)

Many of the Burgess specimens have now been assigned to living phyla just where Walcott put them in the first place. 许多布尔吉斯标本现在已经归到活着的动物的门里就是沃尔科特最初放置它们的地方。 Hallucigenia and s

SSS 2011-03-29

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? To keep your car purring, you have to change the oil. Such maintenance produces eight billion gallons of used motor oil annually. Some waste oil does get re-refined to pro

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-10-16

Pet turtles can be unsanitary. But Chinese soft-shelled turtles really up the ante on distasteful behavior. They perform a variation on urinationthrough their mouths. Most land-based vertebrates produce urine to get rid of water-soluble toxic waste,

英文书摘精选 有趣的事实,短嘴鳄可以再长牙齿

Fun Fact: Alligators Can Regrow Teeth 有趣的事实：短嘴鳄可以再长牙齿 Fun fact about alligators: they can regrow any of their eighty teeth up to fifty times. Which is pretty impressive, especially compared to us relatively dentally chal

英语听力文摘 English Digest 600、科学家如何预测火山喷发？

its time again for the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science, Ive always been fascinated by volcanoes. So I was wondering: How well can scientists predict when and where a volcano will erupt? Intersting question. Th

SSS 2008-04-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? Talk about your vicious cycles. A new study finds that belly fat could be making you hungrier. Which would lead to more belly fat. The research was performed at the Univ

SSS 2009-11-13

Algae seem harmless enough. These precursors to plants thrive throughout the world's waters. But these single-celled plants have global consequences. We can thank them for oxygen in the atmosphere, oil in the lithosphere as well as dead zones in the

经济学人321:爬行动物的排尿 可算是方便了

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Researchers make sperm from stem cell in dish

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The Shepherd and the Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat was hiking when he came upon a shepherd tending a large flock. The bureaucrat took a fancy to the sheep and asked the shepherd, If I can guess how many there are, may I have one? The shepherd thought it unlikely the man would guess the e

学个词Learn a Word 第983期 Bureaucracy

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大众拟用催化转化器修复受影响汽车

Volkswagen has devised a new catalytic converter that could fix the majority of the cars in the US affected by the diesel emissions scandal, as details emerge of its attempts to satisfy regulators. 大众汽车(Volkswagen)设计出一种新的催化转

VOA标准英语10月-Conflict Resolution Marked Career of Nobel Laurea

Conflict resolution marked the career of former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari who has received this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to secure peace in various regions of the world. In this report from Washington, Senior Correspondent A

AlphaGo围棋排名超越柯洁 成为世界第一棋手

AlphaGo is now the world's No 1 Go player, ending thousands of years of human dominance in the game. AlphaGo现在已经成为世界第一围棋手，结束了几千年的人类在该棋类的统治地位。 According to the latest GoRating, AlphaGo

AlphaGo背后的人脑

Lee Se-Dol is the world champion of Go, the ancient Chinese board game that is considered the worlds most complex. This week, the South Korean took on an artificially intelligent computer program called AlphaGo created by DeepMind, a British company

李世石对弈AlphaGo扳回一局

Mark one up for man over the machine. The world champion of the ancient Chinese board game of Go has finally found a way to beat Googles AlphaGo computer, after losing three straight games last week. 这是人类战胜机器的时刻，世界围棋冠军

AlphaGo击败李世石被授名誉九段

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李世石聊围棋人机大战

Reflecting on his third consecutive loss, Lee Sedol admits he is under a lot of pressure after losing the first two games. Though I have a lot of experience in Go I have never felt before such severe pressure as I do now, and I suppose my abilities w

英语听力—环球英语 1112 Alpha Boys School

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2016年CRI Chinese Top Go Players: AlphaGo Can Eventually Beat All Human Players

Ke Jie says the machine is improving its play every day, which is hard for human beings to achieve. I said before that I could beat AlphaGo easily and now I still believe I have more chances to win the match against AlphaGo. But the thing is AlphaGo