目录 1
编者的话 1
1.How to Improve Your Vocabulary 1
2.Earthquake Light Mystery Solved 9
3.New Comet Found in 1983 11
4.Saved by a Satellite 13
5.Plants Need Good-night’s Sleep,Too 15
6.Finding Sickness through the Eyes 17
7.UFO’S—The Case For and Against 19
8.UFO’S—Old and New 25
9.Brain Glue 27
10.Seals Save Babies? 29
11.Underwater Storms 31
12.Out-of-this World Star 33
13.Reward for Bear Killers 35
14.Spiders Sensitive to Pain 37
15.Black and White in Color 39
16.Return of the Space Traveler 41
17.Space Sick 44
18.Space Computers Reveal Earth’s Secrets 48
19.Sunglasses 52
20.Fusion Power—Energy Source for the 21st Century 56
21.Life in a Space Colony 59
22.Drawing—By Computer 65
23.Is Anyone Out There? 69
24.Solar Cell一Basic“Machine”of the Solar Dream 74
25.Leaf Chewers and Coca-cola:The History of Cocaine 78
26.Are No Two Snowflakes the Same? 80
27.“Nine Different Ices” 83
28.Cleaning the Environment With Bacteria 85
29.Trees Fight Gypsies 89
30.Loud Army Test Range Draws Scores of Eagles 91
31.Electrical Fish Sound Pollution Alarms 93
32.Radioactive Bees? 95
33.Trees that“Talk”to Each Other 97
34.Acid Rain Update 99
35.Radioactive Rain a Natural! 101
36.Computer Music 103