SSS 2008-07-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a few minutes? Today we have a special edition featuring a brief interview with Sciam editor, Steve Ashley. Steve Ashley, a lot of people are very concerned about oil right now, b

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Steve Jobs was racing to ensure the Macintosh 乔布斯想要先声夺人 was the first personal computer to have icons on the screen. 确保Macintosh是第一台屏幕上有图标的个人电脑 But just before it was due to be unveiled, 而就在Ma

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About one thousand years ago, war and famine forced the Hakka ancestors to depart from China's central plains, embarking on a collective southward migration. 上溯千年，因战乱和饥荒 客家人的祖先从中原腹地出发 开始陆续大规模

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SSS 2011-12-12

Cooking is one big science experiment and chefs have been gaining fame for more explicit uses of scentific techniques and tools in the kitchen. Now, according to an article in the December issue of physics world, mixologists the folks behind the bar

SSS 2011-12-09

Cooking is one big science experiment. And chefs have been gaining fame for more explicit use of scientific techniques and tools in the kitchen. Now, according to an article in the December issue of Physics World, mixologiststhe folks behind the bara

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Part A Passage 1 For all his vaunted talents, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has never had much of a reputation as an economic forecaster. In fact, he shies away from making the precise to-the-decimal-point predictions that many other econom

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More government support, including subsidies and a favorable pricing mechanism, is needed for the country to use desalinated seawater to quench its thirst, a top industry expert said。 The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for desalinated water

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AS IT IS 2015-07-12 Israel Helps California Deal with Water Shortages 以色列帮助加州对付水短缺问题 Israel knows how to deal with drought. The small Middle Eastern country has experienced dry weather conditions and water shortages for ma

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Authorities in Western Australia say they can show the world how to conquer a water crisis that had threatened to decimate the state capital, Perth, amid a long-standing drought and declining rainfall. Desalination is at the heart of Western Austral

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China's deep-sea economy is set to take a huge step forward as basic infrastructure construction gets under way in Sansha, the country's youngest city at its southernmost point. He Fei has the details. Located on Yongxing Island in the South China Se

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Australian Researchers Aim for Greener Desalination

Researchers in Sydney are leading a new international effort to make desalination more environmentally friendly. Current techniques tend to use excessive amounts of energy or are heavily reliant on chemicals. The University of Technology in Sydney is

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Doctor Li Lailai, China Director of the World Resources Institute says sustainable supplies of water and energy are intensifying in China as human demand continues to grow. She says water conservation is becoming a critical issue. We do have a progra

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Something called the Danish Twin Study 一个叫丹麦双胞胎的研究表明， established that only about 10 percent 普通人在生物学允许的限度内的寿命， of how long the average person lives, 仅仅有百分之十 within certain bi

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Those hours that with gentle work did frame, 时光老人曾用精雕细刻 The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, 刻出这众目所归的美颜， Will play the tyrants to the very same, 也会对它施暴虐于某一天， And that unfair whi

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IF CALIFORNIA were not already so famous for Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it might be renowned for the cluster of water-technology firms in its San Diego County. The reverse-osmosis (RO) spiral module, the trick that underpins turning sea- and waste