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Are we alone ?And it ties into all the big questions: how do we get here ? where are we going ?Are we a part of a bigger picture? But for the longest time ,the question was taboo to science . Before the Mid-1990s ,it was considered somewhat embarassi

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For thousands of years, weve wondered if we are alone in the cosmos. Life, is it a one-time event, or its something that's occurred lots of times throughout the universe.? And at this very moment, new discoveries are bringing us closer to the answers

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Extreme ice melting led to thousands of walruses making an unusual gathering on the barrier island in Alaska. Biologists with the U.S. geological survey say the situation can be very dangerous, because walruses are easily startled and can't stampede.

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The Census of Marine Life has released the most comprehensive inventory life in the ocean today. Its an unprecedented database of marine species living in 25 key ocean areas around the world. The findings published in the open access scientific journ

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Young loggerhead sea turtles routinely migrate thousands of miles. But these turtles are starting their migration a bit early while still in the egg. In a typical year, as many as half of all baby sea turtles may die. Sea birds swoop down and snatch

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The experiment proves that a rogue wave could have theoretically sunk the S.S.Poet. But Graber has spent 20 years studying this oceanic phenomenon. He knows there is no evidence to suggest that rouge waves occur more often in the Triangle than any ot

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Hurricanes may have helped build the myth. But writer John Quiza believes they cant explain all of the disappearances. Anything can disappear in foul weather, but for it qualify as a Triangle disappearance, it has to have the unexplainable quality to

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They looked for anything that may help identify the plane in the murky depths. You can see that may be 2,3 meters in front of you, yet at back, tremendous bottom motion of the water, if you dont hang on to something, it will move you really quickly.

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You don't have to move far up shore before the depths are tremendous and to be able to find an individual wreck in depths like that would be extremely difficult even with modern multibeam sonar technology, and certainly, incredibly difficult with a t

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The couple use global-positioning coordinates to close in on the underwater wreck. We're about 3.6 miles away and its directly southeast from this location. A dark shape looms in the water. It's pretty close. It's easy to be fooled by clouds flying o

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It's very hard to tell. We've just hit the water. It's very hard to tell what altitude we're at. We've crashed the airplane at 930 feet. It seems clear that flying into that methane caused enough confusion in the instruments and with Thomas and he en

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I think the part that Lauras talked about that it has the year 48 on it, and the size of this plan and some other things, I think we may have found the DC3 that disappeared in 1948.That is my real hunch. And I really don't see many other options for

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The full entourage of Tibetan monks make the most of the occasion,with music, prayers, and blessings. Hundreds of fresh prayer flags are prepared and added to the pole. The head lama's sacred scarf adds the final touch to the proceedings. But the sig

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It's a grim end to a short life, but many of the surviving calves will face a more terrifying death. In the Mara River, another migration is culminating. Crocodiles have memorized when and where the wildebeests will try to cross. They have gathered i

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The word for burial in Tibetan means giving offerings to the birds, an act of generosity, in line with the concept of compassion for all beings. By doing good deeds, Buddhists believe that they can contribute to the process of enlightenment. So a sky

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Like a giant hotplate. The plateau heats up in the spring and summer. The change in air pressure draws in warm moist air from the Indian Ocean in the south. Thanks to this, over a billion people from India to Burma benefit from the monsoon rain that

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Out on the plateau,new-born chiru are vulnerable to predators, so their mothers must try to hide and protect them. The most recent problem faced by the chiru is the new Tibet-Qinghai railway, which cuts right through their traditional migration route

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She leaves little behind. Males are still on the lookout for females. For her cub's safety, she heads back to the hills. But as spring continues, lengthening days bring sudden and dramatic change. The highest tides of the year combine with the rising

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But again, a bear helps with the filming. Sealed with a kiss, the couples whirlwind romance will last three weeks. Out on the frozen sea, a young male has killed a seal. He caught it when it surfaced through a breathing hole in the ice. To film from

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She's aware of his difficulties and uses her body as a shield. She must stay attentive if her cub is to survive in this harsh Arctic world. Realizing he's exhausted, she digs a hollow to rest him. In the dens like this, she suckles him six times a da

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学英语单词
a-what
Administrative Staff college
adstrates
Ampulla recti
ante-chamber
ark-floater
be awesome
beaird
biotaxis
budget and fund accounting
buffer flange
Burwash Landing
Butapirone
cable-end
cavallero
cerebral pia mater
chilling machine
circumaction
clearing label
computer science curriculum
confederalists
corgi
crossed yagi
curve flattering
dakryon
decompactification
delverts
diversity fatigue
drug around
euro-mp
exchangeable securities
extraterritorial
fight songs
fixed assets rate of water project
flitter-tripe
fluorescent map
Fourchambault
geraniumlike
givings
god mode
goutfly
group and outline
hegman gauge
hyperdicrotism
icetexone
innate releasing mechanism(irm)
inward-opening door
jowed
La Florencia
la malbaie (murray bay)
lothagams
maow
melt-off rate
microphotodensitometry
mini-grid
more particularly
multi-access computing subsystem
muriated
nafarelin
near field scanning optical microscope (nsom)
neathouse
neptunium dioxide
noncooperation
note form
overenergized
parlyaments
phytophthora infestanss
port repair ship
portifino
protonated complex
pseudoreligion
pterantha
radio altimeter indicator
read-eval-print loops
referenceable
scented poplar
secondary origin
Sedum prasinopetalum
seed pearl
serpentlike
shilf
sickle alfalfa
single-layer
speculate in
standard lightning impulse withstand voltage
suffer heavy losses
superdiffusive
syringenin
transpleural
trityl radical
trommels
truename
two-dimensional
unignoring
unpersuasiveness
user I/O device
ustilaginine
vinegar flower
visual rhymes
Woleai Atoll
zetta-siemens