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

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

【英文短篇小说】The Masque of the Red Death

The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at th

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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

美丽新世界Brave New World 第1章(1)

Chapter One 第一章 A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. 一幢灰白色的大楼，矮矮的，只有三十四层。 Over the main entrance the words, central london hatchery and conditioning centre, and, in a shield, the World State

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Sterling Memorial Library 斯特林纪念图书馆 Yale University has a huge library system of 25 libraries, including Sterling Memorial Library, Law Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and so on and so forth. 耶鲁大学拥有一个庞

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

Del Potro dreams of Olympic medal in London

BUENOS AIRES, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Argentinean tennis star Juan Martin Del Potro, ranked 9th worldwide, said bringing home a medal from the London 2012 Olympic Games would be akin to scoring a Grand Slam win. In an interview with local daily Clarin Mo

英国学生科学读本 第73期:玻璃窗(1)

Lesson 73 A Pane Of Glass 第73课 玻璃窗 If you had lived in Britain a thousand years ago, you might have seen panes of glass in the churches, but you would have found very few glass windows in the houses of the people. The windows in those days

绿野仙踪 第66期:神奇的翡翠城(1)

Chapter 11. The Wonderful City of Oz 第11章 神奇的翡翠城 Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. 多萝茜一行人虽带着绿墨镜，但当他们

Researchers make sperm from stem cell in dish

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have found a way to turn mouse embryonic stem cells into sperm and this finding opens up new avenues for infertility research and treatment, according to astudy published Thursday in the online edition of jo

Federer beats Del Potro to capture second title in Rotterdam

THE HAGUE, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Roger Federer grabbed his second title at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam after beating Juan Martin Del Potro 6-1, 6-4 in the final on Sunday in Rotterdam. The match was a replay of the 2009 US Open fi

Del Potro and Benneteau reach final in Rotterdam

THE HAGUE, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Juan Martin Del Potro and Julien Benneteau qualified for the final of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament on Saturday. Second seeded Del Potro beat Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-4. The Argentinean did not suffer a s

Suicide attack on Pakistani hotel

Suicide attack on Pakistani hotel 巴基斯坦酒店自杀性袭击 A suicide bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, has killed 15 people and injured at least 60. Gunmen（枪手，歹徒） stormed the outer security barrier at t

巴基斯坦卡拉奇炸弹爆炸11丧生

ISLAMABAD, April 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people including a child were killed and 40 others injured on Friday night in a bomb blast that targeted a political meeting in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, local media and police said. Accordi

新西兰英语 431 Energy efficient house

If you live in Wellington, go to Frank Kitts Park on the waterfront to see the Kiwi bach called First Light. It will be there from today until May 24th. Four Victoria University architecture students designed this small house like a Kiwi bach for a c

乔布斯传 第489期:木材 石头 钢铁 玻璃(5)

In July 2011, a decade after the first ones opened, there were 326 Apple stores. 2011年，第一批苹果零售店开业10年之后，全世界已经有317家苹果零售店。 The biggest was in London's Covent Garden, the tallest in Tokyo's Ginza.