SSS 2008-02-20

This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? The Meridiana Planum region of Mars once had water that was really soft and highly acidic, conditions in incredibly hostile to any life forms that we know about. So any

【英语时差8,16】土壤和二氧化碳

Don: Time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear Don Yal, I've been reading a lot about climate lately, and I know that the earth stores lots of carbon in different places, like in the ocean and in plants. Are there a

Horizon - Life On Mars 火星生命 - 9

The ground here is permafrost, a mixture of soil and ice frozen together. A group of Russian scientists have teamed up with NASA to drill down into it in search of microorganisms. It's work that's bee

Alien Neighbors 寻访外星人 9

He wears gloves and cleans his tools with alcohol to avoid contaminating the ancient salt samples with modern microorganisms.

VOA标准英语2011--Melting Arctic Could be Major Source of Greenhouse Gases

Melting Arctic Could be Major Source of Greenhouse Gases The melting arctic permafrost could release methane-producing microbes with the potential to accelerate climate change, according to a new study published in Nature. Lead author Janet Jansson,

China builds first tower-type solar-thermal power station

China builds first tower-type solar-thermal power station BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- The first tower-type solar-thermal power station in Asia has been built in northwest Beijing, chief of the program said on Monday. Wang Zhifeng, a researcher at th

经济学人61:用于油井的太阳热能

Science and Technology 科技 Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热能 Mirrors in glasshouses 温室的反光镜... can be used to heat stones ...能用于加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that

SSS 2011-11-16

Ever wander through a supermarket and past the open refrigerated cases that house cream cheese, butter and OJ? The refrigerated shelves are protected by jets of air that blow across the front. These jets form an air shield to keep the warm air out. T

研究人员在人类鼻子发现新抗生素

New Antibiotic Found in Human Noses 研究人员在人类鼻子发现新抗生素 The search for new drugs to fight infections has led to a discovery in an unlikely place in peoples noses. What researchers found in noses is a compound called lugdunin

王强口语 第二册 Dictation 014

Lesson Fourteen 听力部分 Dictation: Please prepare your paper and pen. We keep ____ in the _________ to ______ its _______ and ___________. ________________ keep _________ and inhibit the _____ of most ______. However, ____ spoilage microorganism

高一英语作文：Taiwan Is Part of China

About 1500 years ago Chinese settled there, but the Dutch imperialist invaded there in the 17th century. After that, in 1662 Zheng Chenggong, a hero of nation,drove them out. Since 1683 the island was ruled by Qing Dynasty nearly two centuries. Unfor

经济学人65:玻璃房里的镜子

Science and Technology 科技 Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热 Mirrors in glasshouses can be used to heat stones 玻璃房里的镜子.....可以用来加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that

新西兰英语 79 New Geothermal Power Station

Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950

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藻类Algae 两栖动物Amphibians 动物习性Animalbehaviour 动物资源Animalresources 节肢动物Arthropods 生物多样性Biologicaldiversity 生物资源Biologicalresources 生物圈保护区Bi

中国男子在黄石公园舀水被罚款

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Wyo. (AP) A tourist from China was fined $1000 for walking off a boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park and collecting thermal water apparently for medicinal purposes park officials said Wednesday. 黄石国家公园官方本周

男女对温度的感受不同?

It happens every summer: offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into popsicles. But until now, there was no data to understand why women felt cold and were slipping on cardigans while men just rolled up their sleeves at the same tempe

中国放松煤矿工作日限制

Chinas top planning body has relaxed working day restrictions on its coal mines after reduced output boosted prices, frustrating central planners desire to control both price and supply of the nations most important energy source. 中国最高规划机

澳科学家警告海平面上升问题

CANBERRA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have made the alarming discovery that sea levels have risen more in the past century than at any other comparable period in the past 6,000 years. Researchers from the Australian National University

GRE试题七(3)

15.If during this period Lorraine and Mark, not neces- sarily in that order, are stationed at immediately adjacent windows, which of the following can be stationed at window 1 during this period? (A) J

你知道“秋裤”的英语怎么说吗？

有一种思念叫望穿秋水，有一种寒冷叫做忘穿秋裤。最近，全国各地的天气都变凉了，大家翻箱倒柜找出了尘封已久、又恨又爱的抗冻神物--秋裤。面对这种全世界恐怕只有中国人才穿的裤子，