This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Shakespeare once said: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And that is true today as it was 400 years ago. What's different now, though, is th

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(四)月

This title is the kind that gets attention, isn't it? I first heard about these two characters a few days ago. My three boys play an on-line game called Minecraft. It's actually quite fabulous. It is an unending arena, where you can discover and crea

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The Macondo well operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico has now been capped with a star adornment that commemorates the 11 people killed when the rig operating on the water surface above the site exploded on April 20. Clean-up efforts continue, though,

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[Scene: Central Perk, everyone is there except Joey.] Monica: Alright. Phoebe? Phoebe: Okay, okay. If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want, um, world peace, no more hunger, good things for the rain-forest...And bigger boobs! Ross: Yeah, see.. yo

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COPENHAGEN, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The Copenhagen WTA tennis tournament, a 220,000 U.S. dollar outdoor hardcourt event, opened at the Farum Arena here Saturday. The international event features 24 players, including world number six women's tennis playe

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Back here are specimens collected by Joseph Banks in Australia, 这里放着约瑟夫班克斯在澳大利亚采集的标本, Alexander von Humboldt in Amazonia, Darwin on the Beagle voyage, and much else that is either very rare or historically im

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