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新奇事件簿 NASA宇航员申请创纪录
A record number of people have applied to NASA to be part of its astronaut training program. NASA said it received over 18,300 applications for just 14 jobs. This is a record for the administration. Human resources officials at NASA will now spend th
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新奇事件簿 全球遇近视眼危机
Researchers predicted in a new report published in the journal Opthalmology that by 2050, half of the world's population will be short-sighted. The medical term for this condition is myopia. It is also known as near-sightedness. It is when we have di
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新奇事件簿 40万年薪工作无人问津
There is a job available in the small New Zealand town of Tokoroa, but no one wants it. The job is for a doctor and it pays US$265,000 a year. For the lucky doctor who takes the job, there is no night work, no weekend work, and house prices in the ar
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新奇事件簿 失联30年后姐妹终团聚
Two sisters in Colombia who were separated as children by an avalanche 30 years ago have been reunited. Jaqueline and Lorena Sanchez thought they had lost each other forever in 1985 when the Tolima volcano erupted near their town of Armero. The hot,
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新奇事件簿 从甲壳虫中引发的灵感
Scientists may have found one answer to the problem of water shortages. It is a new material that collects water from the air. They got their idea from a small beetle that lives in the desert in Africa. The deserts of the Skeleton Coast in Namibia ar
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新奇事件簿 缺觉让你大腹便便
Have you ever wondered why you are hungrier than usual if you do not get a good night's sleep? Researchers from the University of Chicago say they have found one reason. Their study reveals that a lack of sleep makes people hungrier the following day
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新奇事件簿 伦敦时装周禁用16岁以下模特
Models under the age of 16 will be banned from London's Fashion Week. In addition, all models may soon have to show a health certificate before they are allowed to walk down the catwalk. These are the decisions of the Model Health Inquiry that was se
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新奇事件簿 高兴让人"心伤"
Scientists have said it isn't just sad things that make us brokenhearted. Happy events can also be bad for our heart. A broken heart is an actual medical condition. It is not just the sadness we feel when someone we love does not return that love. We
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新奇事件簿 土耳其接管《时代报》
Turkish police have used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon against protestors outside the offices of a national newspaper in Istanbul. The demonstrators were protesting against the takeover of a private newspaper by the Turkish government. Tu
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新奇事件簿 近一半欧洲人为双语达人
Residents of the European Union (EU) are becoming better and better at languages. Almost 50 percent of the EU population say they can speak at least one foreign language very well. That figure rises to nearly 80 percent for students. To celebrate its
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新奇事件簿 日本将建任天堂主题公园
A new theme park will open in Osaka, Japan. Universal Studios Japan (USJ) is going to build a new attraction called Nintendoland. It will be full of rides based on Nintendo's favourite characters. A USJ spokesperson said Nintendoland would be ready i
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新奇事件簿 醉酒无药可治
A study in the British Medical Journal reports there is no cure for hangovers. The only real way to avoid the terrible headaches is either to not drink at all or to have just a few glasses, researchers say. Research leader Max Pittler of Exeter Unive
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新奇事件簿 石器切割术加速人类进化
Eating habits and food processing skills from around two million years ago helped humans to evolve and develop language. Researchers from Harvard University say that learning to cut meat up and using basic stone tools to process food was a crucial st
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新奇事件簿 苹果与FBI大打口水仗
There is a big argument in the USA between the technology company Apple and the FBI. The argument is over the iPhone of a killer. In December 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Californi
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新奇事件簿 加纳向非盟公民提供落地签
Ghana's president, John Dramani Mahama, has announced that his country will issue visas tocitizens of African Union member states from July. Anyone arriving at a port in Ghana bearing apassport from an African Union nation will be granted a visa, whi
