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Sunscreen comes in many forms, each with its own impacts on your body and the environment. 防晒霜有很多种，每种对你的身体和环境影响各有不同。 With so many options, how do you choose which sunscreen is best for you? 有了这么

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Dozens missing after Philippine landslide

At least one person has been killed and 40 more are missing after a landslide(塌方) struck homes and destroyed mining tunnels in the southern Philippines. Mud and rocks buried miners' houses in the remote village in Compostela Valley province on th

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Premier Li Keqiang says China should consider science and technology as a primary productive force. Scientific and technological innovation to a large extent determines the future of China's development strategy. In history, we have missed several te

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Although chemistry had come a long way in the century that separated Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a long way to go. Right up to the closing years of the eighteenth century (and in Priestley's case a li

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Despite pledges in the last year to fight pollution, Beijing saw barely any improvement in air quality in 2013. The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau says the intensity of major air pollutants remained much the same in 2013 as they were in the

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Sweet Bait Lures Malaria Mosquitoes

Israeli(以色列) researchers say they have developed a powerful bait that effectively attracts and kills malaria-infected mosquitoes but is completely harmless to humans and other animals. The toxic sugar bait developed by scientists at Hebrew Univ

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Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng says that a qualitative, rather than a quantitative goal, is more realistic for China's economy against a gloomy international economic background. Gao made the remarks in response to media concerns over why no s