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Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Heres a novel potential public health measure against the flukick up the humidity. The cold, dry months of winter signal the start of flu season. But previous resear

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今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

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Let us pause for a moment and consider the structure of the atom as we know it now. Every atom is made from three kinds of elementary particles: protons, which have a positive electrical charge; electrons, which have a negative electrical charge; and

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2680 correlation

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