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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Are your car bumpers riddled with scars from encounters with tight parking spaces? Did the furniture movers scratch your floor? Wouldn't it be great if t

SSS 2011-10-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The human genome was sequenced, and in the process of moving that forward the technology that was developed was incredible. And because of their efforts in human genome,

SSS 2010-03-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Buildings consume about a third of the energy and two-thirds of the electricity in the U.S. Roofs are a good place to try to cut those figures. Because

SSS 2009-04-22

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Just when you thought youd heard everything, scientists have found that the reason you can hear everythingincluding things that are very quietis because

SSS 2010-01-19

Most of us blink without thinking. But people whove sustained strokes or combat injuries can lose their ability to blink. Which is important for lubricating and cleaning the eye. Surgery is an optiona small piece of muscle transplanted from the leg c

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I dont believe, in all my years, I have ever seen a fruit fly I would consider obese. But, thanks to the wonders of modern science, thats all about to change. Because a team of researchers from Cold Spring Harbor laboratory has produced the first fli

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Lowering the Ceiling on Roof Energy Losses Buildings consume about a third of the energy and two-thirds of the electricity in the U.S. Roofs are a good place to try to cut those figures. Because traditional black asphalt roofs heat up in summer and s

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The United States has partnered with the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign, Intel Corporation, Google, and other partners to lead the third annual Women in Science Girls STEAM Camp, to enable to girls to study the science, technology, engi

SSS 2008-09-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?. [Spray sound.] Killing bugs? No. [Spray sound.] Deodorizing the bathroom? No. [Spray sound.] Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of Califor

SSS 2009-10-07

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in England, Yale Universitys Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel for their studies of the ribosome.

SSS 2011-02-07

Patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery need implants of new, healthy blood vessels. So do those who receive repeated hemodialysis due to kidney failure. The best option is to use the patient's own veins or arteries, but thousands of patients don

SSS 2011-04-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar cells convert sunlight to electricity. But they don't take advantage of all that solar heat, thereby missing out on the majority of the solar ene

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VOA标准英语2016--“智能”绷带有助更快治愈伤口

'Smart' Bandages Could Heal Wounds More Quickly 智能绷带有助更快治愈伤口 Simple bandages are usually seen as the first line of attack in healing small to moderate wounds and burns. But scientists say new synthetic materials with embedded

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This years Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about the worlds smallest machines. G?ran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, earlier this morning. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Nobel Priz

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EDUCATION REPORT - Intel Science Talent Search Winners AnnouncedBy Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, March 23, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. An eighteen-year-o

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