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[科学阅读] 全球能源荒使得放弃肮脏能源几乎不可能
Fifteen terawatts. That's 150 billion 100-watt light bulbs burning 24/7 for a year. Which is how muchenergy humanity now uses annually.[qh]15太瓦。这足够1500亿盏100瓦的灯泡每周七天每天24小时的工作2012-03-23 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:香味浓郁的食品有助减肥
The smell of a rich dessert can make your mouthwater. But can an extra helping of its smell help you eat less?[qh]丰富的餐后甜点让你流口水,不过它的味道能有额外的作用,帮助你减少食欲吗?[qh]To find o2012-03-22 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:求欢被拒的苍蝇借酒浇愁
You know the scene—it’s a Friday night, and your date just canceled. You’re bummed, maybe a little hurt. You think now might be a good time for a beer, maybe a bourbon. And you have good2012-03-21 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:脱水影响女性的心情
Mild dehydration is defined as a 1.5 percent loss in normal water volume in the body. And two recent studies with men and women find that, beyond affecting your body, mild dehydration can impact your2012-02-29 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:网恋难以成功的秘密
A team of psychologists reviewed online dating sites and their conclusions are not promising.[qh]一个心理学研究小组揭示了婚恋网站和它的前景不容乐观。[qh]Online dating might give you something, but it2012-02-24 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:变黄的眼睛或导致老年人失眠
Aging is not for the squeamish: skin sags, joints ache and hearing might start to go. And many seniors have trouble sleeping, which can lead to other health problems. Now research shows that a subtle2012-02-23 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 研究表明做梦可有助于控制和缓和不安的记忆和经历
Sleep helps us consolidate our memories. Sleep also helps us learn. During REM sleep, which is the dreaming stage of sleep, the brain stops releasingstress chemicals. Now a new study finds that as we2012-02-22 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:胆小的蜻蜓幼虫
Safe dragonfly larvae that could sense the presence of their predators had a higher mortality rate than unstressed larvae. Christopher Intagliata reports[qh]Christopher Intagliata报道称,蜻蜓幼虫可以2012-02-20 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:研究显示 蛋白质能击退午后困乏
Glucose can block brain cell secretion of orexin, which keeps us alert. But amino acids can stop that block. Christie Nicholson reports.[qh]葡萄糖能抑制大脑细胞分泌使我们清醒的促食素,但氨基酸可以解除2012-02-17 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:你的高尔夫球杆有没有沾到高手"仙气"
Subjects who thought their putter had been owned by a pro golfer putted better than others using the same putter without being told its pedigree. Amy Kraft reports It takes lots of practice to shave2012-02-16 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:你知道发烧的妙处吗?
Fever can play a variety of roles, such as inhibiting pathogen replication. It also apparently increases the population of killer T cells of the immune system. Christopher Intagliata reports.[qh]发烧2012-02-15 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:奇妙的回声
A doctoral student performed acoustic archaeology to determine how music could have been properly appreciated in a cavernous 16th-century church. Sarah Fecht reports Venice's Church of the Most H2012-02-13 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 研究表明做梦可有助于控制和缓和不安的记忆和经历
Sleep helps us consolidate our memories. Sleep also helps us learn. During REM sleep, which is the dreaming stage of sleep, the brain stops releasingstress chemicals. Now a new study finds that as we2012-02-10 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:男人真的比女人更幽默吗?
In a 2007 Vanity Fair article Christopher Hitchens asked: Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?[qh]在2007年《名利场》杂志的一篇文章中,克里斯多弗·希钦斯提出一个问题:为什么2012-02-09 编辑:Richard 标签:
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[科学阅读] 科普阅读:利用智能手机和现有Wi-fi开发室内版GPS
GPS is utterly useless for finding your wife or kids (or even locating yourself) at the mall. What we need is an indoor equivalent of GPS. And researchers have been working on it.[qh]在商场,寻找你的2012-02-08 编辑:Richard 标签: