Scientists: Spiders Use Electric Fields to Move through Air Scientists have long wondered how spiders can use the webbing they make to fly. The 19th century English naturalist Charles Darwin commented on their behavior when very small spiders landed

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(七)月

Looking Into Your Brain Just Became Easier Researchers and engineers keep improving the machines that help doctors better understand and diagnose conditions that affect our brains. One of the goals is to find causes of Alzheimers and Parkinsons disea

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the University of Manchesters Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their investigations of the two-dimensional material graphene

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十)月

Motional Induction Last time, we talked about motional induction , a phenomenon by which the ocean generate s a magnetic field. It works like this: earth has its own magnetic field. The ocean has plenty of charged atoms in it, in the form of dissolve

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

2009年的一部3D大片《阿凡达》让很多人都记住了avatar这个词。在网络上搜索这个词,出来的结果大部分也都跟这部电影有关。其实,avatar并不是导演造的一个词,它在印度教中指圣人的化身。

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

Do you remember who won the world series in nineteen sixty- eight, but forget where you left your keys? Are you great at remembering all the details of a story, but lousy when it comes to remembering peoples names? What our brains choose to remember,

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