[00:06.37]The United States has a new official clock. [00:10.95]The clock began operating late last year in the American city of Boulder,Colorado. [00:18.39]Experts say the new clock is so exact that it will neither gain nor lose so much as one secon

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The aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point near Invercargill opened in 1971. It had a contract to buy cheap electricity, generated by hydro-electricity from Lake Manapouri which is not far away. Now in 2013, 13% of all electricity generated in New Zealand,

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Youve given some thought to oxygen, carbon, uranium. But youve probably never mused about the element ytterbium, symbol Yb. A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, says that ytterbium could find a rol

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Protamine sulfate is a drug that reverses the anticoagulant effects of liver compounds such as heparin. Protamine is extracted from the sperm of salmon and other species of fish, and then made into a protamine sulfate injection which is a necessary d

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We keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the earth keeps warming. Climate scientists have predicted that the consequences of unchecked warming could result in everything from catastrophic flooding to larger and more deadly hurricanes. S

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First off, I'll mention that at the bottom of the sea there exist veins of zinc, iron, silver, and gold whose mining would quite certainly be feasible. 首先,我对您说,海底有锌、铁、银、金等矿藏,开发并不是不可能的事。

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