They Did It With Mirrors!

They Did It With Mirrors! You can’t stand in front of the paintings of the old masters and not wonder, how did 1) Frans Hals make that lace seem so real? How did 2) Van Dyck make his armor so gleami

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Newtons Apple Tree 牛顿的苹果树 Newton was an English physicist and mathmatician,and was the greatest scientist in his era. 牛顿是一位英国物理学家和数学家，也是他那个时代最卓越的科学家之一。 Isaac Newton was bor

SSS 2011-09-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute? The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but try telling that to electrons: when current flows down a wire, these particles zig and zag, movin

SSS 2010-02-18

Welcome to the Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on February 18th, 2010. I am Steve Mirsky. And you know what the hottest sport in the world is right now? Thanks to the Winter Olympics, it is, of course, curling. That's t

[单词解析速记].JV487.(Solace.and.Quantum)

Sorry,there is not text temporarily, Please help tingroom to look for it! 如果您能找到更好的听力原文，请发贴到 听力原文收集区 ，您将会获得10到30积分的奖励! Thank you！

生活大爆炸第二季第二集_3：The Codpiece Topology

-Leonard：Why don't we all move over there so Leslie can join us? 我们干嘛不移到那边去，这样Leslie就可以坐在一起了。 -Howard：Yeah, let's do it. 好的，去吧。 -Sheldon：If you're having trouble deciding where to sit, may

VOA慢速英语--5个尝试Firefox量子浏览器的理由

5 Reasons to Try Firefox Quantum Browser Mozilla has released a new update of its Firefox browser that it says is much faster and provides a better overall user experience. But can the new version called Firefox Quantum compete with the worlds curren

CNN 2010-11-07

A very loud bang,I was sitting right on the side where the engine is, ah,the loud bang with a little bit flare for a short time and the engine was shut up pretty much immediately from the flight deck. Ah,on flight I analysed the situation.Ah,thanks t

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(4)

And this, then, led to my big questions. And they're the same ones that I have today. 这让我想到一个大问题。一些我今日仍然在想的问题。 And they are: why do things happen, and how do things happen? 为什么事情会发生，它们

2016年CRI China to launch first quantum communication satellite

Quantum communication boasts ultra-high security as a quantum photon can neither be separated nor duplicated. It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it. Anton Zeilinger, an Austrian physicist at the

英语听力：自然百科 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way—14

Its a stunning location, but its also mysterious. These stars are not just close together. They are on the move at enormous speeds. Going to the heart of a galaxy might not be the similar to going to an amusement park. The rides are some similar to h

经济学人17:想象的殿堂 House of dreams

Books and Arts; Quantum physics 文艺；量子物理学 House of dreams；Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters 想象的殿堂；科学家竞相解释为什么希格斯玻色子至关重要 Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force

经济学人96:宇宙大爆炸 Fundamental physics:Big bang

Books and Arts; Book Review; Fundamental physics; Big bang; 文艺；书评；基础物理学；宇宙大爆炸； Popular physics has enjoyed a new-found regard. Now comes a brave attempt to inject mathematics into an otherwise fashionable subject 科

万物简史 第165期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(8)

Remarkably, and despite his findings, when the twentieth century dawned Michelson counted himself among those who believed that the work of science was nearly at an end, with only a few turrets and pinnacles to be added, a few roof bosses to be carve

我国研发的全球首个量子卫星即将发射

The first quantum communications satellite developed by China is expected to launch in July of this year. The BeijingShanghai quantum private communications line will also be opened in the second half of this year, according to Pan Jianwei, academic

可以调焦的眼镜?

可以调焦的眼镜? They may look like an ordinary pair of spectacles, but these glasses are at the forefront of a revolution in eyewear. 它们看起来像普通的眼镜，但是是眼镜改革的最前沿。 Part of a new line of electronic eye

万物简史 第208期:威力巨大的原子(22)

Remarkably, the phenomenon was proved in 1997 when physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other. 令人惊叹的是，这

万物简史 第207期:威力巨大的原子(21)

It seemed as if there was no end of strangeness. For the first time, as James Trefil has put it, scientists had encountered an area of the universe that our brains just arent wired to understand. Or as Feynman expressed it, things on a small scale be

经济学人512:宇宙学 揭秘宇宙的起源

Leaders 社论 Cosmology 宇宙学 Man suddenly sees the start of the universe 揭秘宇宙的起源 The quest to understand reality takes a great leap backwards 科学新突破探索宇宙诞生之初的真相 IN THE beginning was the word and the w

经济学人279:密码术 量子之慰

Science and technology 科学技术 Cryptography 密码术 The solace of quantum 量子之慰 Eavesdropping on secret communications is about to get harder 现在想窃听秘密联系会越来越难 CRYPTOGRAPHY is an arms race between Alice and Bob,