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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 2011-06-22

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Saliva contains many useful components: lubricants, enzymes for breaking down food and now compounds that can reveal a persons age. Thats according to a

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

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-10-16

Pet turtles can be unsanitary. But Chinese soft-shelled turtles really up the ante on distasteful behavior. They perform a variation on urinationthrough their mouths. Most land-based vertebrates produce urine to get rid of water-soluble toxic waste,

SSS 2010-03-23

Ever get a sour stomach after your morning coffee? Well, you might end up switching to a dark roastbecause that coffee concoction may leave you with a happier tummy. That's according to the research presented at the American Chemical Society meeting

英文书摘精选 有趣的事实,短嘴鳄可以再长牙齿

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M Madasiatic acid 崩大碗酸 Magnoflorine 木兰花碱 Magnolia cortex P.E 厚朴提取物 Magnolol 厚朴酚 Maitake mushroom P.E 灰树花提取物（舞茸提取物） Malonyl Oleanolic acid Hemi

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Restrictions on Methyl Bromide

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Restrictions on Methyl Bromide By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Graphic Image Some chemicals

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

Study: Loss of Ozone Slows

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: September 12, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists in the United States have reported some good news about the 1)ozone in the

VOA常速英语2008年-4,000th US Military Casualty Marked as Symbolic

By Al Pessin Pentagon 24 March 2008 When a roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in Baghdad Sunday night it brought the U.S. military death toll in Iraq to 4,000. It was a symbolic moment, particularly coming during a period of reduced violence

VOA标准英语10月-Zimbabweans Sympathetic to Tsvangirai's Passport

Some Zimbabwe government supporters say President Robert Mugabe should form a government without the opposition, following an opposition boycott of talks Monday in Swaziland. Tendai Maphosa asked ordinary Zimbabweans in Harare what they think about

经济学人69:外因遗传与压力 新生儿蓝调曲

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经济学人321:爬行动物的排尿 可算是方便了

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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

The Shepherd and the Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat was hiking when he came upon a shepherd tending a large flock. The bureaucrat took a fancy to the sheep and asked the shepherd, If I can guess how many there are, may I have one? The shepherd thought it unlikely the man would guess the e

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Volkswagen has devised a new catalytic converter that could fix the majority of the cars in the US affected by the diesel emissions scandal, as details emerge of its attempts to satisfy regulators. 大众汽车(Volkswagen)设计出一种新的催化转