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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Gore's Movie Heats Up Discussion of Global Warming (and Has His Critics Steaming)By Caty Weaver and George Grow Broadcast: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is

Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Astronomers have already discovered hundreds of exoplanets. But make way for the new kid, which is orbiting a kind of star that models say it shouldnt. Researche

Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

国家地理-2008-05-03 Planetary Life After Death 浴火重生的行星

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, astronomers have found a whole new solar system may be forming in the wake of a star's violent death. This is the Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope, exploring the mysteries of infrared astronomy wit

VOA慢速英语--Nine-Year-Old Applies for NASA Job

This is Whats Trending Today. Last week, the American space agency NASA announced it was looking for a Planetary Protection Officer. Many people discussed the job on social media. The Washington Post called the jobs title one of the greatest ever con

US Astronomers Find 'Smaller' Planets Around Distant Suns

By David McAlary U.S. astronomers have made a finding they say increases the chance that distant stars may harbor planetary systems like our own. They have discovered two planets the size of Neptune e

星座商业伙伴之双鱼篇

PISCES February I9 to March 20 The Piscean is the ideal silent partner. When actively engaged in a partnership, he is apt to be too indecisive, and either too suspicious or too trusting. His emotions invade everything and they are not clear-sighted.

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

2006年VOA标准英语-Space Enthusiasts Send Digital Greeting to Mars

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 20 December 2006 The Planetary Society, an organization that promotes space exploration, has teamed up with NASA to send a digital greeting card to Mars aboard the Phoenix lander, an unmanned space probe, on a mission

VOA标准英语2011--Juno Spacecraft Launches Toward Jupiter

Juno Spacecraft Launches Toward Jupiter The U.S. space agency launched the Juno spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday, beginning a five-year journey to Jupiter. 3,2,1. Ignition and liftoff of the Atlas 5 [rocket] with Juno on a t

英语听力：自然百科 Planetary Life After Death 浴火重生的行星

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, astronomers have found a whole new solar system may be forming in the wake of a star's violent death. This is the Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope, exploring the mysteries of infrared astronomy with

英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行：土星 Saturn—19

The Prime Meridian(本初子午线) here is the longitude, the mark on the ground, from which all great voyages are measured. This is the view back to our remarkable home planet/ that the first human out here can look forward to, a distant blue dot l

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Still, statistically the probability that there are other thinking beings out there is good. Nobody knows how many stars there are in the Milky Wayestimates range from 100 billion or so to perhaps 400 billionand the Milky Way is just one of 140 billi

俄潜艇首发太阳反射器进入轨道

First Solar Sail to be Launched into Orbit from Russian Submarine 俄潜艇首发太阳反射器进入轨道 A solar sail might do for space missions what fabric sails once did for sea travel.It would

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

VOA慢速英语2019 科学家称新的饮食可能拯救地球

Scientists Say New Diet May Save Planet From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report. 欢迎收听美国之音学习英语栏目，这里是健康与生活频道。 Scientists in London say they have found the best diet for both