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(MA) Scientists are always on the lookout for alternative sources of energy. Today we're going to discuss one that's so plentiful they say it could supply more energy than all the coal and oil in the world. It's found in something called gas hydrate

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The cob's wife pretended not to notice that her husband was showing off, but she saw it, all right, and she was proud of his strength and his courage. 雄天鹅的妻子假装没看到丈夫的卖弄，可她当然看见了，而且，她也为丈夫的

VOA慢速英语20060627b

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Protections Increased for Sea Life in Northwestern HawaiiBy Nancy Steinbach, Erin Schiavone and Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is

可乐与微笑

我又一次陷于两头都够不上的中间境遇，作为六个孩子中的老四，很多事情对我来说不是因为年龄太小，就是太大而不合适。那天夜里就是这样。我的两个小兄弟在屋里睡觉，我的另外三个长

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While most of us rely on Google maps to get us where we're going, some are using the service to search for locations from thousands of years ago that we might have forgotten, like ancient pyramids. A satellite archaeological researcher from North Car

SSS 2011-04-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Landfills produce methanewhich can be valuable as an energy source. But scientists haven't known why landfills make so much methane. The solid waste in

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Japan said Tuesday it had successfully extracted methane hydrate, known as fire ice, from its seabed, possibly unlocking many years' worth of gas for the resource-starved country. In what they are claiming as a world first, a consortium is drilling f

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Ben Carter Powdered material called dry water, could provide a new way to store carbon dioxide in an effort to fight global warming. Dry water looks a lot like fine white sand, which isn't surprising since what makes it dry is that each tiny water dr

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A Coke and a Smile I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. We sat side by side, watching the sun go down behind the

英语听力：自然百科 神秘百慕大 bermuda triangle—9

It's very hard to tell. We've just hit the water. It's very hard to tell what altitude we're at. We've crashed the airplane at 930 feet. It seems clear that flying into that methane caused enough confusion in the instruments and with Thomas and he en

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Ben, do you play baseball? 本，你打棒球吗？ I did. In school they called me the king of the field. But I don't play now. 我过去打。在学校他们叫我球场之王。但是我现在不打了。 OK. So you're a good player. Do you want t

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In the kitchen the boys were sitting glumly around the table, and Paddy's chair was empty. So was Frank's. Meggie slid into her place and sat there, teeth chattering in fear. After breakfast Fee shooed them outside dourly, and behind the barn Bob bro

Return of the Native

A man who was born in the state of Yan grew up in the state of Chu．At his old age he decided to return to the state of Yan．On his way he passed the state of Jin．His fellow travellers played a trick on him．They pointed at a city of the state o

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My best friend Larry is exceptionally small. We're in the fifth grade, but Larry is as short as a first grader. Although his body is small, Larry is big at heart. He has a sharp mind, too. All the kids who know Larry like him a lot. Sometimes he gets

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Real men don't cry. We just get something in our eye A short walk from my house in Hampshire, on a hill overlooking the heathland, is a plaque marking the spot where Richard Pryce Jones deliberately crashed his Halifax bomber during the war. He could

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A Coke and a SmileI know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. We sat side by side, watching the sun go down behind the o