Unit 1 Life Science 1
Text A Human Cloning 1
Text B Are We 10 Years Away from Artificial Life? 7
Unit 2 Biological Engineering 12
Text A How Stem Cells Work? 12
Text B Taking Your Genes in Hand 18
Unit 3 New Energy 23
Text A Ethanol,Schmethanol 23
Text B The Coming Wave 29
Unit 4 Transportation 34
Text A Intelligent Highways 34
Text B Making Waves 39
Unit 5 New Facilities 46
Text A Facial Recognition Systems 46
Text B GPS-the Most Precise Navigation System Ever Invented 52
Unit 6 Telecommunication 59
Text A Video Conferencing Cell Phones 59
Text B You Are Your Cell Phone 65
Unit 7 Space 70
Text A Starship Enterprise:the Next Generation 70
Text B Phoenix to Go Digging on Red Planet 77
Unit 8 Health and Medicine 83
Text A Telemedicine Comes Home 83
Text B Would a"Fat Tax"Save Lives? 88
Unit 9 Internet 92
Text A The Internet Is Sick...But We Can Make It Better 92
Text B Watching While You Surf 99
Unit 10 VR Technology 105
Text A The Military Applications of Virtual Reality 105
Text B Reality,Only Better 111
Unit 11 Robots 116
Text A Rise of the Rat-brained Robots 116
Text B Nothing to Lose But Their Chains 122
Unit 12 Environment 129
Text A Future Crops:the Other Greenhouse Effect 129
Text B The Methane Mystery 135
Unit 13 Animals 141
Text A Jellyfish Invasion 141
Text B Who Belongs in the Zoo? 146
Unit 14 Computer Science 151
Text A Software That Makes Software Better 151
Text B From Blueprint to Database 157
Unit 15 Automobile 163
Text A How Hydrogen-Boosted Gasoline Engine Works? 163
Text B The Car Doctor Is In 168