Robert Owen, a British mill-owner and reformer, treated private property, along with organised religion and marriage, as a social scourge. In 1825 he bought land for a farm-and-factory commune in Indiana. It attracted farmers, artisans and intellectu

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A China-made wearable robot that can assist disabled people with walking is expected to enter the market in one to two years, according to its developer. 我国已自主研发出一款可以帮助残疾人行走的可穿戴机器人,其研发方称,

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Cameras were once big and bulky. Today,really good cameras fit in your pocket. And now, researchers at Cornell havedeveloped a camera thats just a half-millimeter on each side and a hundredthof a millimeter thick. The lens-less device is called a Pla

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(七)月

今天我们要学的词是 chain。Chain 除了大家都知道的,有锁链的意思,还有连锁店的意思。The American drug store Walgreens became the first retail store chain to expand its services to include diagnosing and treating patie

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Aggressive HIV Found in Cuba 古巴发现一种侵袭性艾滋病毒 An aggressive form of HIV has been discovered in Cuba. It develops into full-blown AIDS within just three years. Researchers said the progression happens so fast that treatment with

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Live a single day on planet Earth, or anywhere else in the universe for that matter, and you will experience the natural phenomenon of heat conduction, which is the term used to describe the natural flow of heat from warmer objects to cooler ones. Yo

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