By Caty Weaver Broadcast: July 25, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Researchers say they have found a way to reduce the cost of some 1)fuel cell production. The

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar panels typically convert sunlight into electricity or heat. But photosynthetic vegetation converts sunlight into chemical energy. Now M.I.T.s Dan

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we will tell about an American study of the brain disorder schizophrenia. We tell about cars that use hydrogen as fuel. And,

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Why Teflon Is Slippery Teflon is the trademark name for PTFE, a type of plastic. If you own any non stick cookware, then you probably use PTFE on a daily basis. You might not realize, as you fry your morning eggs, that PTFE is one of the most slipper

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今天我们要学的词是 fluoride. Fluoride 氟化物。The U.S. government is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride added to drinking water for the first time in more than 50 years. 美国政府50多年来首次降低饮用水建议添加的氟

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Why Teflon Is Slippery? 1954年,法国工程师马克格雷瓜尔(Marc Gregoire)的妻子柯莱特(Colette)突发奇想,觉得丈夫用来涂在钓鱼线上防止打结的不粘材料特氟龙(Teflon)如果可以用在煎锅上,效果一定不错

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