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Cooking is one big science experiment and chefs have been gaining fame for more explicit uses of scentific techniques and tools in the kitchen. Now, according to an article in the December issue of physics world, mixologists the folks behind the bar

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Cooking is one big science experiment. And chefs have been gaining fame for more explicit use of scientific techniques and tools in the kitchen. Now, according to an article in the December issue of Physics World, mixologiststhe folks behind the bara

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Ever wander through a supermarket and past the open refrigerated cases that house cream cheese, butter and OJ? The refrigerated shelves are protected by jets of air that blow across the front. These jets form an air shield to keep the warm air out. T

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Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950

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中国男子在黄石公园舀水被罚款

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Wyo. (AP) A tourist from China was fined $1000 for walking off a boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park and collecting thermal water apparently for medicinal purposes park officials said Wednesday. 黄石国家公园官方本周

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It happens every summer: offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into popsicles. But until now, there was no data to understand why women felt cold and were slipping on cardigans while men just rolled up their sleeves at the same tempe

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Chinas top planning body has relaxed working day restrictions on its coal mines after reduced output boosted prices, frustrating central planners desire to control both price and supply of the nations most important energy source. 中国最高规划机

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CANBERRA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have made the alarming discovery that sea levels have risen more in the past century than at any other comparable period in the past 6,000 years. Researchers from the Australian National University

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