学英语必须去的网站Scientific American: 60-Second Science

60-Second Science
这是一个学习英语很好的网站，每天60秒的科学新闻，标准的美音，广播语速虽然有点快，但是听一两周后就会习惯了，它还有文本，刚开始可以边听边看。坚持一年左右你就可以成为英语高手了，呵呵。我只提供了部分的链接，它的播放器转不了，你可以点下面的标题直接进入听。
ScA 60S 090819 Phone Networks Reveal Relationships
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] How do you know if someone’s yo...
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ScA 60S 090818 Paper Money Tainted with Cocaine
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] You’re not under arrest, despit...
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ScA 60S 090818 Paper Money Tainted with Cocaine
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] You’re not under arrest, despit...
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ScA 60S 090817 Hot Rocks Were Technology Revolution
Early modern humans didn’t just chip away at stones to create their tools. They treated st...
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ScA 60S 090814 Facial Expressions_ East Doesn't Meet West
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] Westerners traveling to Asia ma...
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ScA 60S 090813 Cesium Clock Faces Ytterbium Challenge
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] You’ve given some thought to ox...
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ScA 60S 090812 Fungus Could Be Kudzu Killer
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] It’s been called the “vine that...
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ScA 60S 090811 What's Behind Birthers' Obama Belief
The so-called birthers can’t accept that President Obama is really a natural-born American...
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ScA 60S 090810 Scratching the Surface of Itch
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] A friend’s four year old daught...
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ScA 60S 090807 Sneaky Orchid Drives Wasps Wild
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] Orchids are botany's great mim...
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ScA 60S 090806 Century-Old Physics Law Violated
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] In 1900 legendary physicist Max...
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ScA 60S 090805 Spleen Gives Heart a Leg Up
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] Poor old spleen, it never got t...
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ScA 60S 090804 Swinging Arms Save Energy
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] People swing their arms when th...
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ScA 60S 090803 Synched Blinks Avoid Data Loss
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] You’ve heard of synchronized sw...
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60-Second Science  13 hours agoToucan: Put Heat on My Bill
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A study in the journal Science finds that at least one purpose of the the giant bill of the toucan is to radiate heat. Adam Hinterthuer reports
60-Second Science  7/24/09Fish Shrink to Beat Heat
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A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that the planet's warming oceans are inducing fish to get smaller as a strategy to deal with increased temperature. Karen Hopkin reports60-Second Science  7/23/09Artificial Gravity Slows Muscle Loss
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A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that spinning bedridden volunteers in a centrifuge to mimic gravity stopped the muscle loss associated with weightlessness. Steve Mirsky reports60-Second Science  7/22/09What's on TV Is Biomedical Bonus
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A study in the journal Green Chemistry shows that a substance recovered from old liquid crystal displays, PVA, has multiple medical uses. Cynthia Graber reports60-Second Science  7/21/09Raindrop Sizes Surprises
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A study in the journal Nature Physics shows that raindrop size distribution is a function of large drops disintegrating as they fall. Karen Hopkin reports
60-Second Science  7/20/09Aldrin Dusts Off Moon Memories
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Buzz Aldrin recalls the simple strangeness of being on another world, such as how the dust rose and fell differently on the moon with each footfall. Steve Mirsky reports
60-Second Science  7/17/09Jockey Positions Speed Up Horses
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A study in the journal Science claims that the movement of jockeys out of phase with their horses eases the horse's workload and accounts for up to 7 percent of the decrease in race times over the last century. Karen Hopkin reports
60-Second Science  7/16/09Wastewater Analysis for Drug Abuse Evidence
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A study in the journal Addiction shows that a viable system for measuring the consumption of illegal drugs in various communities is to analyze samples of untreated wastewater--which contains the leftovers. Steve Mirsky reports
60-Second Science  7/15/09The Myth of Multitasking
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A study in the journal Neuron shows that when we think we're getting better at multitasking, we're really getting faster at switching back and forth between two different things at different times. Karen Hopkin reports
60-Second Science  7/14/09Cat Call Coerces Can Opening
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A study in the journal Current Biology finds that some cat purrs include a high-frequency plaintive component that gets people to do cats' bidding. Karen Hopkin reports
60-Second Science  7/13/09Profanity Bleeps Physical Pain
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A study in the journal NeuroReport finds that using socially unacceptable "swear words" has physical effects that enable the swearer to tolerate pain better. Adam Hinterthuer reports
60-Second Science  7/10/09Shell Shock: Turtle Development Secret Revealed
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A study in the journal Science tracks the embryonic development of the turtle's shell, which includes the shoulder blades getting folded within the ribs. Cynthia Graber reports
60-Second Science  7/9/09Poll: Science, Though Beneficial, Losing Importance
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The American public likes science, but thinks that its achievements are less important than they were a decade ago. That's according to telephone surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Steve Mirsky reports
60-Second Science  7/8/09Are Parasites to Thank for Sex?
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A study in the journal The American Naturalist implies that parasites helped drive the development of sex, because the shuffling of genes gives sex-produced progeny an advantage over asexual genetic clones. Cynthia Graber reports
60-Second Science  7/7/09Really Mass Media
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In London last week at the World Conference of Science Journalists, Philip Hilts, the director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at M.I.T., reviewed the worldwide state of Internet and cell phone use, two of the major ways people now get news
60-Second Science  7/6/09Future of Science Coverage
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At the World Conference of Science Journalists in London last week, outgoing Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie talked to writers about the future of what they do, remarks that also pertain to this podcast. Steve Mirsky reports
60-Second Science  7/3/09Genetic Link for Perfect Pitch?
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Recent research claims to have found some evidence for a genetic link to perfect pitch. Christie Nicholson reports
60-Second Science  7/2/09Rain Zone Moving North
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An article in Nature Geoscience predicts that the rainiest area on Earth, the intertropical convergence zone, is moving steadily north. Christie Nicholson reports
60-Second Science  7/1/09Why Didn't Earth Freeze Completely?
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Research published in the July 2 issue of Nature reveals one reason our planet didn't succumb to an enveloping ice sheet during glacial ages. Christie Nicholson reports