Mosquitoes Genetically Modified to Prevent Malaria There may soon be a new weapon in the fight against malaria - a genetically-modified mosquito that kills the disease-causing parasite once it becomes infected. Malaria is a leading cause of death wor

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(一月)

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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Jen: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Jen and with me today is Neil. Neil: Hello there. Jen: Todays story is all about allergies. If you have an allergy to something, your body reacts to it in a negative way. Do yo

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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

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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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