Earth and Sky:Spider Widows 蜘蛛寡妇

Spider Widows 蜘蛛寡妇 Spiders give many of us the shivers, though they usually leave people alone. Sometimes these spectacular predators instead prey on each other. Learn more about when spiders serve themselves as dinner -- today on Earth and Sky.

SSS 2011-11-21

Male nursery web spiders often woo potential lady-friends with gifts wrapped in silk. Mating may ensue, during which a female unspools the present, expecting to find a tasty treat. But the males can be unscrupulous. Some offerings contain inedible pl

SSS 2012-02-22

This is Scientific American 60 second science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? The most common types of ingested birth control contain estrogen. But the hormone doesnt just prevent human babies. It may be lowering numbers of frog babies, t

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Ok, here is the clinic for you guys out there on the Dos and Donts of finding emotional joy and carnal fulfillment in its most primitive form, if you get my drift. This male wildebeest dashes up to this herd of females, oblivious to the fact that ot

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OK, we are back in the world of the Cyanea octopus. It's mating time. Here's your potential conquest. She doesn't know you're alive. She's too busy cleaning trash from her house. Now you are the perceptive type. You use your sensitive disks for any s

174 俄罗斯谴责美国进行导弹试验

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Chances are, youre going to marry someone a lot like you. Similar intelligence, similar height, similar body weight. A new study of tens of thousands of married couples suggests that this isnt an accident. We dont marry educated people because we hap

TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(2)

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AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-21

1. The Bush administration and Congress are working through the weekend to hammer out a Wall Street rescue plan. President Bush is asking lawmakers to let the government buy 700 billion dollars in bad mortgages from US financial institutions for the

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女性天生有“出轨基因”

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We found activity in a tiny, little factory near the base of the brain 我们发现在大脑底部附近有一块活跃的微小的区域 called the ventral tegmental area. 腹侧背盖区。 We found activity in some cells called the A10 cells, 其中

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模仿句子：The tensions in the Korean Peninsula have dominated headlines since February when North Korea tested another nuclear warhead. It also tested new rocket technology ostensibly to send satellites into orbit, although no one abroad seemed

【英语时差8,16】蜗牛（上）

No matter the species, mating rituals are pretty weird. Take the praying mantis. After an intimate tryst, the female mantis bites its partners head off. But when it comes to sexual hijinks, nothing beats the garden snail. During sex, garden snails of

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今天我们要学的词是 warhead. Warhead 名词，弹头。North Korea claimed a successful weekend launch of a medium long-range ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead. 朝鲜声称，周末成功试射了可以携带重型核弹头