Applied Science Grade 6-8 Innovating with Emerging Technologies

Watching the Earth: How Do Scientists Gather Information About Our Planet?

What would you think if you sailed into a vast area of ocean that glowed in the dark with pale white light? One sea captain, Raphael Semmes, was traveling along the Horn of Africa in 1864 when he encountered this phenomenon. “We suddenly passed from the deep blue water in which we had been sailing, into a patch of water so white that it startled me,” he wrote.

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疟疾反击战

人类尽一己之力创造了人工智能——从思维结构上模仿人类本身,甚至从物质结构上来仿生人类本身。而这种硅基的智能,在计算量、存储量、信息的传输量上都有着先天的优越性,远远比人类大脑强大。那么,它会弥补人类智能的短板,让人类实现超越吗?还是最后作为一种进化的结果,不可逆转地取代人类,正如几百万年前直立人取代南方古猿、几十万年前智人取代直立人一样?

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当艺术“活”起来◎ —数字技术如何改变装置艺术体验

深度学习除了在图像识别方面有重大突破,谷歌公司的AlphaGo和阿尔法狗元(AlphaGo Zero)也采用了深度学习的原理,战果显赫,在科学界和媒体上都引起了轰动。阿尔法是希腊字母表里的第一个字母,Go在英文里是围棋的意思。AlphaGo的设计者先定下了一个小目标——就是要做棋界至尊。

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Discovering and Developing Yourself Grade 6-8 Personal Development

Social Etiquette: One of the Arts for Building Successful Relationships

Etiquette provides basic rules for how we interact with other people. And good manners help us make a good impression. Two ver successful flms exemplify the stor of how learning manners changes a person. One is the flmMy Fair Lady, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1964. It is set in early twentieth-centur England.

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Grade 6-8 Learning Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Physics and Chemistry

How to stand out in a science competition

Welcome to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world’s largest science competition for high school students. Out of the tens of millions of students who enter science fairs around the world each year, just 1,800 qualify to participate in this one.

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Astronomy and Space Science Exploring Space and Beyond Grade K-2

Catching Ghost Particles: The Story of Neutrinos

Zip! Zing! Right now, teeny tiny paricles are pelting your body. Every second, one hundred trillion of them zoom through you. But they don’t hur. In fact, they usually don’t disturb even a single atom or molecule on the way through. These paricles can pass through all of planet Earh without hitting anything!

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Grade 6-8 Medicine and Health Transforming Health with Medicine

Rebuilding the Body: The Future of Brain-Controlled Prosthetics

As a teenager, Hugh Herr got lost during a blizzard on a mountain. He surived the ordeal but was gravely injured. “Both of my legs were amputated just below the knee due to tissue damage from frostbite,” he explained in a 2020 talk. As he adjusted to his new body, he said, “I began to imagine a world with such advanced technology that disability is no more.”

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朝向西方:俄罗斯的复兴 Past and Present of Russia

如果问你的祖父辈,他们听到哪一个国家和民族的老歌时,会挺感动,心灵跟着有所触动,他们很可能会说是俄罗斯民歌。苏联和中国有过一段非常友好的邦交历史,两个国家共同的理想曾让那个时代的青年热血沸腾。后来,苏联解体,成为15 个独立的联邦国,其中最大的联邦国俄罗斯继承了苏联的大部分资源、国力、国际义务和地位。

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