内容简介
1.Folding Machine Gun
2.Mystery of the Missing Snak
3.Father Seahorse Gives Birth to Babies
4.Super Ears for Elephants
5.Sea Lions Eat Stones
6.Battling Bacteria Take On the Egg
7.It's Okay to Cry
8.Curing Heart Attack
9.The Dog with Two Hearts
10.Volleyball Star Hyman's Death
11.Sphygmomanometer—Measuring Blood Pressure
12.Science Shorts
13.How a Refrigerator Keeps Its Cool
14.Capturing Light—With Fiber Optics
15.Preserving Food with Radiation
16.Genetic Wonders
17.Why Fabrics Crease and Wrinkle
18."Black Box"—Flight Recorder
19.What's New in Contact Lenses?
20.Detergents
21.Indoor Air Pollution
22.Is Acid Rain Washing Away Our Heritage?
23.Cameroon's Cloud of Death
24.The Roots of Famine
25.Too Many Vitamins Can Be Bad
26.Pains and Needles
27.Liver Transplants—Big News!
28.Bones Up on Basic Nutrition
29.How Swimmers Learned to Fly
30.Blowing Down a Skyscraper in 10 Seconds
31.Banking on Seeds
32.Controlling Pests with an Insect Army
33.Animal Marriage
34.Forest Firesin the U.S
35.Our Future in Space
36.Pandas—Here Today,Gone Tomorrow?
37.Safety Questions Tie Up Genetic Engineering
38.What Is Artifieial Intelligence?
39.Robot Sub Discovers Titanic
40.Dinosaur-Size Robot with Laser Eyes
41.AIDS—A Challenge to Science
42.The Science of Fighting Fires
43.Population Growth and Birth Control
44.Sick in Space
45.The Chernobyl Nuelear Accident
46.Identifying a War Criminal
47.Superconductors Are Revolutionary
48.A Healthy Dose of Laughter
49.Food and Cancer
50.Inside the Recording Studio
51.Science Quiz
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