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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Most plants capture sunlight. And the results are usually green. Because in photosynthesis, plant chlorophyll uses wavelengths of blue and our sun's ab

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The Earths original atmosphere would have been unpleasantdeadly in factto any organisms that breathe oxygen. There wasnt any. Not until about 2.4 billi

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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

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(man) Today I want to discuss fossil fuels such as coat, oil, and natural gas. The term fossil fuel refers to the trapped remains of plants and animals in sedimentary rock. You see, living plants trap energy from the sun by the process of photosynth

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图片 by Jason Marshall Some math is functional. Some math is fun. And some math is simply stunning. If that last description sounds improbable to you, then today just might change your mind. Because now that weve covered enough ground, were going t

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图片1 图片2 by Jason Marshall Despite many peoples assumption to the contrary, math is undeniably artistic. It takes a tremendous amount of creative muscle and artistry to devise mathematical solutions. And, as made evident by their frequent batt

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar panels typically convert sunlight into electricity or heat. But photosynthetic vegetation converts sunlight into chemical energy. Now M.I.T.s Dan

SSS 2008-12-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It may look like just another animal. But one kind of lowly sea slug actually has the solar power abilities of a plant. Bizarre but true, the sea slug

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

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After nearly twenty years of homeownership, Ive spent the past ten months renting an apartment. I like it. And I dont. There are pros and cons to renting a place, just as there are pros and cons to owning a home. For me, one of the biggest cons is th

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Extended Beauty Of Photosynthesis

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Adam Frank usually has his head in the sky. He's an astrophysicist. It's an occupational hazard. Right now, though, he is dazzled by the universe of green right here on Earth. ADAM FRANK, BYLINE: Now that we're well past the star

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The first day of the experiment, we got out to our plot 实验的第一天，我们来到了实验地点， and a grizzly bear and her cub chased us off. 突然一头灰熊和她的熊宝宝出现，把我们赶跑了。 And I had no bear spray. But

雅思阅读--单词可以这样背

很多来学雅思的同学见了老师都会说：文章太难了，那么多生词，是不是每个都要查中文释义并且背下来才能考好啊?如果你也有这样的困惑，不妨耐心地往下读，本文会给大家解答这方面的问

经济学人150:向地底进军

Science and technology 科学技术 Going underground 向地底进军 A project to reveal more about all the carbon on Earth 旨在向人们揭示更多地球碳信息的项目 The Deep Carbon Observatory 深碳观测站 A world still full of secrets

China cuts its reserve ratio again

BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhuanet) - China's central bank announced on Saturday it would lower the reserve requirement for commercial lenders by 50 basis points, the second time it has taken such action this year to inject more market liquidity and shore up

Seaweed may poison coral reefs: study

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Some seaweeds can kill the reef-building corals around them by emitting anti-coral chemicals, a new study found. The study was published Monday in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the U.S. National Acad

英闻天下——331 China's Unbalanced Sex Ratio and its Ripple Effect

China's sex ratio is quite worrying nowadays. According to census data, China's sex ratio at birth was 108 males to every 100 females in the early 1980s, only slightly above the natural rate of 103 to 107. In 2000 the ratio was 116.9 males to 100 fem

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The latest survey of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia reveals that an average of 35 percent of coral is now dead or dying in the northern and central sections. Experts from James Cook University say its the most extreme case of mass

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Heather, when plants convert light into energy to help them grow it's called photosynthesis. 希瑟 植物把光转换成能量 来帮助它们生长 这叫做光合作用 But what is a photo of yourself taken by yourself called? 但把自己给自己拍

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Once it seemed that the ocean floor was a desert of darkness. As everyone knew， sunlight was what made life possible by fueling photosynthesis， and sunlight can penetrate only the first few hundred yards of the oceans great depths. Lower， a few