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1、1、Fast running robotsPEOPLE arent the only ones that can run on two legs robots can, too! Mabel the robot runs just like a human, only much faster.Scientists in the US built Mabel she can run at a speed of 10.9 kilometers per hour. She even set a Guinness (吉尼斯) world record for the fastest robot run
2、ning on two legs.Mabel was born in 2009. It took scientists three years to get her up and running. Her legs are light and springy (有弹力的). When she is running, Mabel is much like a human.Robots like Mabel will soon be able to do dangerous work, like looking for people inside a burning (着火的) house. Ac
3、cording to one of the scientists who worked on Mabel, Jonathan Hurst, the research they did to make a running robot may help people in other ways, too. “People in wheelchairs (轮椅) may be able to walk again,” said Hurst. 2、The nose knows cancerDOGS dont just find drugs (毒品) with their noses, but lung
4、 cancer (肺癌), too.The American magazine Popular Science reported that a dog could tell if a patient has lung cancer by smelling his or her breath (呼吸).Researchers in Germany trained dogs and asked them to smell 220 people. The group had healthy people, lung cancer patients and people who have anothe
5、r lung disease (疾病). The dogs picked out patients with lung cancer.However, scientists do not know what exactly the dogs are smelling. They are working hard to explain it. Scientists hope to use this information to make “electronic (电子的) noses” to use in hospitals. 3、Look into the news“MIRROR (镜子) m
6、irror on the wall, whats happening in Libya right now?”Now with this new mirror from the New York Times, you can brush your teeth while reading the latest news and watching videos in your bathroom.The mirror works with some very new software (软件). You can use it to get the news, schedule events on y
7、our personal calendar (日程表) and leave messages for family members.Theres another kind of new mirror, too. It can read the signals (信号) of the person standing in front of it. According to what the user is wearing, it gives fashion tips and suggestions on his or her clothes.Going shopping or eating ou
8、t? Dont go in a hurry! The magic mirror offers (提供) you coupons (优惠券), too. 4、Clever robot chats it upWHO are you talking to on the Internet? It may not be a human!A British software developer (软件开发者), Rollo Carpenter, made a piece of software called Cleverbot. It can fool people into thinking that
9、they are talking to a human being, not a machine.At a computer festival in India, 30 people talked with an online chatter (聊天者) for four minutes. The chatter could either be a Cleverbot or a real person behind a screen. People watched what the chatters wrote on a big screen and voted (投票). Cleverbot
10、 succeed in fooling more than half of the 30 people into thinking that it was human.Lets see some questions that Cleverbot answered. Will you be fooled? 5、Worlds tiniest cameraA CAMERA helps record beautiful places while traveling. It also makes luggage (行李) heavier. Now the worlds smallest camera w
11、ill save you from this worry.American company Hammacher Schlemmer made this camera. Its no larger than a fingertip (指尖) and its only 28g. But it takes pictures and videos just like normal cameras.There is a very small SD card inside the camera for saving pictures and videos. You can connect (连接) you
12、r camera to a computer for showing pictures and video to family and friends.The cameras battery (电池) keeps it working for 30 minutes. It needs one hour to get fully recharged (再充电). 6、The Dead Sea is aliveFOR a long time we have believed that theres no life in the Dead Sea (死海). But it looks like we
13、 were wrong.The Dead Sea lies on the border (边界) of Jordan (约旦), Israel (以色列) and the West Bank. There is much more salt in it than in other seas. So people thought it was impossible for things to live in it. Too much salt also makes people float (漂浮) better. For this reason, many tourists visit the
14、 Dead Sea every year.A diving team has found 30 giant craters (火山口) under the Dead Sea. The craters spew (喷出) fresh water. There are many tiny living things around them.Team member Danny Ionescu told National Geographic News that the craters were a “fantastic place for life”. 7、Internet measures upH
15、OW long does it take us to download (下载) a 500m (megabytes, 兆字节，计算机中的一种储存单位) movie from the Internet? In China, it usually takes half an hour. But in South Korea, it only takes four minutes.According to a global Internet speed study released (发布) by the US company Pando Networks, South Korea offers the worlds highest download speed, 2,202kbps (kilobytes per second,千字节每秒, 网络速度单位。1m等于1,024kb). Romania (罗马尼亚) and Bulgaria (保加利亚) come in second and third on the list.The US showed up in the middle of the list and China is 80th. The slowest country, according to the study, was the Congo (刚果).
