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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
17-OH
activity space
air resistance plane
Alijo
anti-mine warfare vessel
armature end-connections
As you brew, so you must drink.
automorphosed
ball stop valve
bearns
beziques
boiler gasket
Bonneville Dam
broided
Calothrix
Carphophis
communications mast
complex man hypothesis
crutter
cubo-dodecahedron
cupric bromide
cyclotic monster
decompartmentalizing
deverbalization
Divine Providence
double-wound synchronous generator
efferent synapse
eigenbranes
electron-distribution curve
electropure process
endeiolite
environmental geochemistry
Espoo
finished goods ledger sheet
fissurae cerebri lateralis
Flat Rock
forenoon watch
frictionwasher
function of fluroine
gasoline substitutes
goodgeon
gramicidin S
greenwich meridians
Grignard, Victor
guide wall
heat strokes
heavy isotope losses
Ilex subcoriacea
in exchange for
iodohydrocarbon
katalysis
Komensky, Jan Amos
l'op?ra de paris
landing energy
lawyer's letter
left lobe
length of forward movement
liquidator's bond
marketing managerialics
material fragment
mawdudi
meatpackers
Meliosma angustifolia
mobile screw conveyor
moss animal
multi-layer plating
needle chamber
no time like the present
NOCONTRACT
one-stringed
parameter of elliptic integral
parent exchange
phase adjustment operation of a generator
Podcher'ye
purothionine
ratio of gross to tare weight
rectoromanoscopy
red-heart
scanning control system
scattering property
selsyn-type electric machine
smallest size to scale
solid paris green
some distance
spinning and weaving
spreading factors
strike below
tail car
taming of the shrew
Tavros
tear gassing
triturating teeth
u/n (user/network)
unified thread
vandalous
vertical structure
Vigna gracilicaulis
weathertop
weighing machines
wet batch method
wield a good baton
yawling