The Biggest Magnet 最大的磁体 A: What's the biggest magnet ever? 究竟什么是最大的磁体？ B: Well, that's a great question. Well, for starters you'd have to mention whoppers like the hybrid magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Lab...
Scoop That Poop 我好无辜的 Actually, dog poop turns out to have a pretty big environmental impact. If you think that two in five households in the U.S. have at least one dog and that about forty percent of Americans don't clean up after their po...
Superglue 强力胶 Male: Help！Help! 求助！求助！ Female:What's wrong？ 你怎么了？ M: I was fixing my coffee cup with superglue.And I must have got some on my fingers but I scratch my forhead.And now my hand is stuck to my head. 我刚刚...
Plants Arming Themselves 植物的自我武装 Ya?l: Don, imagine this scenario. You're a plant, and a butterfly lays its eggs on you. What do you do? Don，试想一下这样的情景：你是一株植物，一只蝴蝶在你的叶子上产下了很多...
The Remains of a Star 星星的遗迹 What is a black hole,anyway? Oh,come on,everyone knows what a black hole is. 黑洞是什么？拜托，大家都知道黑洞。 Do they? Everybody thinks they know because of science fiction. 他们真的知道吗...
Abortion and Breast Cancer 流产和乳腺癌 When it comes to certain hot topics, claims about what science has or hasn't proven tend to be thrown around more in the service of one position or another than anything else. 当谈到某些热点问题时...
Cloning Pets 克隆宠物 Is animal cloning for real? I want to have my cat cloned. 动物真的可以克隆吗？我想克隆家里的猫。 Well, animal cloning technology exists, but pet cloning isn't quite there yet. And it may never be. 动物克隆...
BombardierBeetle 投弹手甲虫 Male: Is it a beetle or some sort? 它是甲虫还是什么？ Female: Right in deed.It's a bombardierbeetle.This one is an African species, but it could be found on most other continents too. 就是甲虫，它是一只...
Bradycardia 心动过缓 Don: Ya?l, isn't normal heart rate somewhere between sixty to one hundred beats per minute？ Ya?l,正常人的心跳次数是不是60~100次/分？ Ya?l: That's right, Don. Why? 是啊。有什么问题吗？ D: This would b...
Cyber-diversity 网络多样性 I'm so tired of hackers. 我讨厌黑客。 That's what happens when you have bunch of computers runing the same software. Because they share the same flaws, if you can hack into one, you can hack into them all. 如果所...
