Gleopatra ，Goddess of the Nile

Three centuries later, shortly before the birth of Christ, Egypt was still ruled by a living goddess, Cleopatra, a Greek 1) descended from one of Alexander’s generals. She looked back to the Golden

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This podcast is brought to you by the American Chemical Society. The global challenges chemistry solutions podcast from ACS discusses how chemistry researchers critical in solving some of the world's most daunting problems, concerning energy, food an

SSS 2011-07-20

This is Scientific American 60-second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Hey, four eyes. Let playground tongue more accurate when it applied Anableps anableps, a fish related to the garbe. It lives in the blackish water of mangoswan i

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Xiapu, the oldest town in eastern Fujian, Xiapu City, Fujian has many natural harbors along its coastline. 霞浦，闽东最古老的县份-福建 霞浦市-漫长的海岸线为这里制造出众多的天然港湾。 The sea has become a natural la

2007-12-04, Town of Deception

On the Italian coast, colored-houses build down the hillside, soaking up the sun as they face the sea. But look closely, and you'll notice that something is a little strange. In Comokolly, the art of illusion is everywhere. This fishing village near

2007-09-11, Town of Deception

On the Italian coast, colored houses built down the hillside, soaking up the sun as they face the sea. But look closely, and you'll notice something is a little strange. In Camogli, the art of illusion is everywhere. This fishing village near Genoa i

AS IT IS 2015-12-06 Santa Fe: The City Different

AS IT IS 2015-12-06 Santa Fe: The City Different When American officials established U.S. Route 66 in 1926, the road cut right through the southwestern city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. For 11 years, Route 66 travelers passed through Santa Fe, known as t

SSS 2008-10-09

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It turns out that maybe speciation is, too. Because a study in the October 2nd issue of Nature sugges

SSS 2009-09-16

Now, heres something you dont see every day: scientists cure color-blind monkeys. According to a report published online in the journal Nature, researchers have used gene therapy to allow color-blind squirrel monkeys to look at their fruit in a whole

SSS 2010-04-14

One main goal in the renewable energy field is to find an efficient, inexpensive way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen could then be used as a fuel source for vehicles or fuel cells. Typically, an electric current breaks the water

SSS 2010-06-07

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Counterfeiters and money minters constantly try to outsmart each other. But money could become much harder to forgethanks to butterfly wings. Butterfl

SSS 2012-03-12

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute~ Fruit and veggies dont just improve your dietthey could enhance your looks. A new study, done with primarily Caucasian subjects, finds that eating produce heightens red

VOA慢速英语--科学家制作逼真的恐龙模型

AS IT IS 2016-10-09 Scientists Create Realistic Model of Dinosaur 科学家制作逼真的恐龙模型 British scientists have created what they believe is the best three-dimensional model of a dinosaur ever built. They say the model is almost the ex

VOA标准英语2009年-Scientists Use DNA to Trace Illegal Elepha

Scientists are using DNA to trace illegal ivory from slaughtered elephants to its countries of origin in an effort to nab poachers. Researchers are trying to combat the multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise at its source. A poached elephant Since

科学美国人60秒 SSS Nobel in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for Autophagy Discoveries

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries of mechanisms of whats known as autophagy. Break the word down and you get auto and phagy: from the Greek for self, auto, and eating, phagein. So, se

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Adrienne: So, Rob, tell me why you don't like elephants! Rob: Why don't I like elephants? It's a long story. I was traveling in India with a friend of mine and one night we decided to spent the night in a national park, looking at wildlife, and we we

Omega Pharma-Quick Step grabs world team title

Omega Pharma-Quick Step grabs world team title THE HAGUE, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Belgian cycling team Omega Pharma-Quick Step rode to victory in the men's team time trial at the road World Championships in Limburg, the Netherlands on Sunday. The team,

熊猫的世界原来不只是黑与白

When it comes to pandas, you probably thought things were strictly black and white. 一提到大熊猫，你可能会以为只有黑色和白色。 But meet Qi Zai, an extremely rare brown and white panda whose colourful appearance has left scientist

囧研究：为什么化妆品都死贵死贵的？

Financially speaking, makeup can be a burden. One item might not break the bank, but the combined cost of everything you might find in a womans makeup bagfoundation, blush, mascara, eye liner, eye shadow, and so onquickly adds up. By one estimate, a

Philippine death toll due to "Bopha" climbs to 418

MANILA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Death toll in the Philippines due to Typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo) has continued to rise to 418 based on the latest data released Friday by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC). NDRRMC Exe