11-05-27 There is water inside the moon so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within the Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt in...

11-05-26 We pass over heavy shadows of large clouds pinned to traincars lined up like unused blocks of colored chalkred then green, blue then orangeuntil we are propelled（推动，驱使） higher, and the trains are swallowed by these jagged（锯齿状的） strictur...

11-05-23 A new computer model of the Gulf of Mexico in the period after the oil spill provides insights into how underwater currents may have primed marine microorganisms to degrade the oil. It is called dynamic（动态的） auto-inoculation. Parcels of water m...

11-04-19 Oxygenation brings dead sea bottoms to life. This creates the necessary conditions for the establishment of new ecosystems that enable nature itself to deal with eutrophication（富营养化） . By conducting pilot studies in two fjords（峡湾，海湾） in...

11-04-14 A combination of forest byproducts and crustacean（甲壳纲动物） shells may be the key to removing radioactive materials from drinking water, researchers from North Carolina State University have found. As we're currently seeing in Japan, one of the...

11-04-11 Rain and Flood 暴雨洪灾 to burst their banks/breaching of the dyke 决堤/溃堤 the flood level 洪水水位 warning level 警戒水位 historic highs 历史最高点 torrential downpours/rains 暴雨/倾盆大雨 muddy 泥泞的 frequent showers 经常性的阵雨 rain cats and...

11-04-06 A leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports. 日本福岛核电站的运营公司宣布，高度放射性污水渗漏的源头已被堵...

11-04-06 Before the dawn of time, all the animals looked the same. Normally this was fine, but some of the cheekier animals likes to play tricks on Mother Earth and pretend to be other animals. Since they looked exactly the same, even Mother Earth who had cr...

11-03-23 Officials in Toyko say that radiation levels in the city's tap water make the water unfit for babies to drink. 东京官员称，东京城内自来水的辐射水平已使其不适宜婴儿饮用。 Iodine（碘） levels in some areas are twice the recommended safe level. The aut...

11-03-17 精彩对白 Woman: Oh, Jane. You look wonderful. Good for you. Oh, honey, it must be so hard to watch your younger sister get married before you. Jane: Yes. Yes, it is. But then I remember that I still get to have hot hate sex with random strangers, an...