Cerumen, it's a lovely word a specially considering that's called ear wax. And we are not the only species that produce this stuff, some whales build up waxes along with lipids and carotene protein into what's called earplugs. And researchers now kno

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(21) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(九)月

By Ted Landphair Washington 09 August 2007 Every day, American consumers are offered a simple choice when they areby a store's cashier: paper or plastic? But as VOA's Ted Landphair explains in today's searching for solutions report, some communities

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Research Breakthrough for Biodegradable Tires? 研究人员研发完全可降解轮胎 Researchers say they have created a new synthetic rubber that could be used to make biodegradable tires. A team at Texas AM Universitys campus in the Gulf nation o

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Its amazing to think there wasnt any plastic one hundred years ago. Now its everywhere. Almost everything thats made has some plastic in it. Whoever invented it must be really rich. There are all kinds of plastic. Its pretty useful stuff. I once went

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Cars And Lightning You may have heard that your car is a safe place to be in a thunder storm, and this is true. You might not know the reason for this, however.Well learn exactly what would happen if lightning struck your car. At first you might thin

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By Robert Raffaele Washington, DC 12 February 2008 Tests on several plastic baby bottles have found they emit very significant levels of a chemical linked to deadly illnesses in laboratory animals. That is according to a new report released by Americ

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