2011-08-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A new study in the journal Nature finds that war is associated with global climate.Researchers from Princeton University and the Earth Institute at Columbia University focused on the natural climate c

2011-08-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We are fascinating new study tonight on taste. It's not hard to figure out why so many of us loathe ogling lovely chocolation. That's easy. But there is new science tonight and when we find some foo

2011-08-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There are many of the same people who have taken to the streets over austerity measures, but this time, they have a new target for their anger. These scenes followed marches in Madrid yesterday agains

2011-08-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

They think they've now got the upper hand in this protracted conflict, but the rebel fighters who have been celebrating their advance into Zawiyah have been driven back before. And this is a city tha

2011-08-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: For a company, security can mean a lot of things. Computers are part of it - firewalls to protect data or personal information. But just as dangerous as a computer hacker can be s

2011-08-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Driving into Tripoli is to drive into a ghost city. It looks like a set for a Hollywood apocalypse film.Instead of a bustling seaside capital of 1.5 million people, we drove Thursday past kilometer an

2011-08-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There has been a spike in violence in Indonesia's Papua region following a peace conference held in July. While some officials hoped a peace agreement reached several years ago in similarly troubled

2011-08-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Otelo Vizcaino got this surprise of his life when every penny to his name and every bit of credit he had was suddenly frozen. On the way to work, I stopped to put gas in my car and my card didn't wor

2011-08-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Say you need a diamond. You could go down to the jeweler, or you could put some carbon deep underground and let it sit for a couple billion years. Or you could hop in a starship and cruise 4,000 light

2011-08-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The eight-month campaign, which runs from this August to next March, aims to raise awareness of gender equality, severely punish those who are involved in non-medical sex determinations and sex-select

2011-08-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As more than half of the world's 7 billion population are living in cities and that number is expected to reach 80 percent of the world's population in 2050, water security in cities has caused grea

2011-08-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: The president will have to make some difficult decisions about trims（修整） to many programs as part of any deficit-cutting deal. One target could be the children's SSI, Supple

2011-08-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Perhaps you've had salmon, tuna, or swordfish for dinner recently. Or maybe it's on the menu tonight. Every big fish that lands on your plate got that big by eating lots of little fish. If you don'

2011-08-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

When Hurricane Katrina raged across the Gulf of Mexico six years ago, it devastated the100 kilometers of the Mississippi coast. Houses, schools, libraries and hotels became piles of broken wood and wi

2011-08-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This past May, in a major policy shift, the World Health Organization said electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are possibly carcinogenic. Although the International Association for the Wi

2011-08-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Rivers today have high muddy banks, sandbars and bends. But they didn’t always look that way. Because it wasn’t until the evolution of tree-like plants, some 330 million years ago, that rivers were

2011-08-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Difficulties arise in the lives of us all.
生活中困难在所难免。What is most important is dealing with the hard times, coping with the changes, and getting through to the other side where the sun is

2011-08-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: College sport has a plan to save college sport. That's the message from the National Collegiate Athletic Association（NCAA，[美]全国大学生体育协会） after a two-day retreat in I

2011-08-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

前段时间的动车风波，相信大家都还记忆犹新。中国决定放慢动车的速度和降低票价。同时也对中国的高速铁路系统进行全面检查，保证以后安全快速的发展。According to the Ministry of Railways, during an initial pha

2011-08-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Young people who are often better known for impulsive spending than for saving money.The websites offer information and tools to help clients become better money managers and to share their financial

2011-08-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The United Nations recently declared Internet access to be a human right. But in the United States, as in many other countries, millions of people do not have access to the wealth of information found

2011-08-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

To be honest with you, I didn’t feel a thing. But many other Scientific American staffers felt the shaking a few minutes before 2pm Eastern time. After checking Twitter and other sources to discover

2011-08-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In the past, traditional Chinese culture often had the groom's parents provide a house for the newly weds. And the wife's parents took care of things like furniture, car, etc. But with the new inter

2011-08-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And despite the wild swings of the world’s stock markets, there are still a handful of Internet companies preparing to go public and others hoping to catch the eye of investors.

2011-08-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A new study finds that it's possible to be obese and healthy. For years, we've been hearing about the dangers of obesity. Obese people are more likely to have heart attacks, stroke, and diabetes, an