z3CGP+Reading+Science

Academic year 2012-13
Why dogs really do know what we are thinking http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/11/why-dogs-really-do-know-what-we-are-thinking-3406824/ __ Vocabulary: __ Hound: one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears. Soppy: excessively sentimental Thoughtful: careful, heedful, or mindful Sternly: strict Scrutiny: a searching examination or investigation Now science has given rats the ability to ‘touch’ light. Seriously [] __ Vocabulary: __ turn out: to cause to move around or partly around, as for the purpose of opening, closing blind: unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless input: something that is put in. to attempt: to make an effort at; __#|try__; undertake; seek collComet could smash into Mars with same impact that killed off the dinosaurs __ http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/05/comet-could-smash-into-mars-with-same-impact-that-killed-off-the-dinosaurs-3526509/ __ __ Vocabulary: __ Wipe out: a destruction Blast:a sudden and violent gust of wind Likelihood:the state of being [|__likely__] or probable; probability. To Pepper:to hit with rapidly repeated short jabs. Turtle 'victory' at wildlife meeting [] __Vocabulary :__ To Endanger : to expose to [|__danger__] Tortoise : a turtle, especially a terrestrial turtle. Softshell :having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell Leap: to jump Trend:the general course or prevailing tendency; drift Early HIV drugs 'functionally cure about one in 10' [] __ Vocabulary: __ Find out: to come upon by chance; meet with To bounce: to strike the ground or other surface, and rebound To spread: to __#|draw__, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded Cold-tolerant wasp spiders spread to northern Europe [] To breed: to produce, procreate Striped: having bands To Piece: to enlarge, to complete by an adding piece A breeze: a wind or a current of air Planck satellite: Maps detail Universe's ancient light [] Vocabulary : Mottled: spotted or blotching in coloring Faint: to lose brightness Glow: a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence. Seed: any propagative part of a plant, including tubers, bulbs, etc., especially as preserved for growing a new crop. Scale: a coating or incrustation, as on the inside of a boiler, formed by the precipitation of salts from the water. To bin: to store in a bin (a box or enclosed place for storing grain) Week 8: Rhino horn DNA database introduced [] __Vocabulary :__ Attempt to : to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek Theft : the act of stealing to bore : to make (a hole) by drilling with such an instrument. dwindle: to become smaller and smaller to pass off: to move past; go by handy : easily maneuvered to stroke: the act or an instance of striking, as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; a blow. Week 9: Environmental change 'triggers rapid evolution' [] __ Vocabulary: __ Trigger: anything, as an act or event, that serves as a stimulus and initiates or precipitates a reaction or series of reactions. A timescale: the span of time within which certain events occur or are scheduled to occur considered in relation to any broader period of time To squash: to suppress or put down Harvest: to gather the crop from
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Week 10: Thermal invisibility cloak in first demonstration []

Cloak: a loose outer garment, as a cape or coat. Underway: occurring while [|under way] Disturbance: the act of [|disturbing]. Disturb:to interfere with; interrupt; hinder Shuttle: to cause (someone or something) to move to and fro or back and forth by or as if by a shuttle [] Breast cancer screening not shown to reduce deaths, say researchers Fierce: Extremely severe or violent; terrible Trends: The general direction in which something tends to move Underlying: Basic; fundamental Effectiveness: Having an intended or expected effect. Breast: Either of two milk-secreting, glandular organs on the chest of a woman; the human mammary gland. [] DNA data to be shared worldwide in medical research project Unravel: To separate and clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve. See Synonyms at [|solve] Shed: To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart: shed light. Held: Past tense and past participle of [|hold] 1 Knowledge: The state or fact of knowing. Huge: Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity. See Synonyms at [|enormous]. Mastectomy: Surgical removal of all or part of a breast, sometimes including excision of the underlying pectoral muscles and regional lymph nodes, usually performed as a treatment for cancer.
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[] Two die after H7N9 bird flu virus develops drug resistance Weapon: An instrument of attack or defense in combat, as a gun, missile, or sword Ease: The condition of being comfortable or relieved Therefore: For that reason or cause; consequently or hence. Discrepancies: Divergence or disagreement, as between facts or claims; difference. Neuraminidase: A hydrolytic enzyme that removes sialic acid from mucoproteins and is found chiefly in microorganisms of the respiratory and intestinal tracts Illness: Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness
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[] Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time Stem: The main ascending axis of a plant; a stalk or trunk Udder: A baglike organ containing the mammary glands, characteristic of certain female mammals, such as cows, sheep, and goats.
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Usher: One who is employed to escort people to their seats, as in a theater, church, or stadium. Embezzlement: To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.

Realm: A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom Nurture: Something that nourishes; sustenance

[] New coronavirus can spread between humans, says WHO official Triggered: The lever pressed by the finger to discharge a firearm. Swept: Past tense and past participle of [|sweep] Cluster: A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together; a bunch Awareness: Having knowledge or cognizance: aware of the difference between the two versions; became aware of faint sound Fears: A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger Raise: To move to a higher position; elevate: raised the loads with a crane. See Synonyms at [|lift].
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[] HIV vaccine study halted by US government over unsuccessful shots Shell: Any of the set of hypothetical spherical surfaces centered on the nucleus of an atom that contain the orbitals of electrons having the same principal quantum number. An analogous pattern of protons and neutrons within a nucleus.
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Neither: Not one or the other; not either Slightly: To a small degree or extent; somewhat. Enough: Sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate Glad: Experiencing or exhibiting joy and pleasure Sooner: A person who settled homestead land in the western United States before it was officially made available, in order to have first choice of location.

[] Scientists create transistor-like biological device Bugs: An insect or similar organism, such as a centipede or an earwig. See Regional Note at [|lightning bug]. Ongoing: In progress or evolving. Heavily: With a great weight or burden: To pitch: To throw, usually with careful aim Recasts: The act or process of recasting Dubbed: To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood
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[] uBiome project will sequence the bacteria that share our bodies Pinpoint: Something extremely small or trifling. Gut: The alimentary canal or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach Strains: To pull, draw, or stretch tight Illnesses: Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness. Swabs: A small piece of absorbent material attached to the end of a stick or wire and used for cleansing or applying medicine. crowd-funding: Requesting small donations for a cause via e-mail, social networks or the Web. The idea is that an order of magnitude more people will donate a dollar or two to support something they like rather than give $100, $50 or even $25. ||
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 * Noellie ||


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Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’
[] //__**Vocabulary:**__// ->fear death: to be afraid about the death ->range of possible observations: many possible observations ->mainstream: familiar ->refines these ideas:think about/works on these ideas -> had been ripped: had been torn || Simplified Brain lets the iCub Robot Learn Language [] //**Vocabulary:**// ->prowess:make something unbelivable ->namely:to know ->linking: to conected ||
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**Astronomers Conduct First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Planetary System**
[] //**Vocabulary:**// ->remote of: "far away" ->outermost planet: the planet which is the most remote ->to nab: to catch ->redder: more red ->patchy: piece by piece ||

**Sleep Study Reveals How the Adolescent Brain Makes the Transition to Mature Thinking**
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130319102757.htm

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adulthood: when you become an adult

final component: the last element of a serie about... patterns:a kind of hobbies... Questions remained: always the same questions are repeted more accurate than: more

Obesity May Be Linked to Microorganisms Living in the Gut
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130326095058.htm


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Gut->intestine inhabiting-> living in breath-> the air witch comes from your mouth large-scale ... study-> a really important study o ngoing study-> an actual research

**Caffeine-'Addicted' Bacteria: Finding May Lead to New Decontamination Methods, New Medicines**
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130327133523.htm

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->genetically engineered: change the gens -> wastewater: old and dirty water ->widespread use: normal/common use

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//** vocabulary **// -> studied extensively:had been study a lot ->whether diet:a diet ->adherence: the respect ->unhealthy aging:a wrong way to becom old

**Archeologists Unearth New Information On Origins of Maya Civilization**
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->previously thought: we could have imagin -> competing: opposite ->predates:before
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Brain System for Emotional Self-Control Discovered
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-> key brain systems: most important part of the brain -> elicited by:created by ->distressing: hurting ->simply assume:only shows
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Laughter Perception Networks in Brain Different for Mocking, Joyful or Ticklish Laughter
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-> social bonding: social life -> roots: origines -> vocal cues: vocal signs
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Q&A: The Higgs boson
[|**http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16116236**] - Sturdy = bonny, burly, robust - Glaring = shinning = éblouissant - Hole = an opening through something, un trou - Whiz = to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing [|sound] = un sifflement - Smashing = impressive or wonderful - Beam = rays = faisceau, rayon - Fleetingly = transitory, passing swiftly = caractère éphémère - Tantalisingly = to tease or make frustrated - Jumble = to mix in a confused mass week 2 Lab rats 'acquire sixth sense' [] -infared = the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the [|red] end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 nm - regain = to succeed in reaching again - enabling = to make [|able] -neuroprosthetic = is a discipline related to [|biomedical engineering] concerned with developing neural [|prostheses] -Randomly = aléatoirement -poking = to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, asa finger -reward = to recompense or requite week 3 Who pays for the greening of Germany? [] >panel = a distinct portion, section, or division, of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door>Energiewende = to face and deal with responsibilities, problems, or difficulties>boldness = courageous and daring >steeply = extreme or incredible, as a statement or story  >wrath = colère divine, vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger  >polls = the voting at an election. >windfall = an unexpected gain, piece of good fortune, or the like, aubaine week 4 World's most detailed scans will reveal how brain works http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21660159 >freely = in a free manner >spur = inciter >delves = to carry on intensive and thorough research for data >assess = to estimate or judge the value >bundles = several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together >wiring = it’s an electronique installation >pathways = route, or way >shaping = it’s a formation >decipher = to make out themeaningof >sheer = transparently thin week 5 Bee deaths: EU delays action on pesticides ban [] - Pollinators : to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower). - Redraft : draft on the drawer or endorsers of a protested bill of exchange for the amount of the bill plus the costs and charges - Stalemate : any position or situation in which no action can be taken or progress made; deadlock: Talks between union and management resulted in a stalemate. - Flies : to move through the air using wings. - Moratorium : a suspension of activity. - Shortcoming : a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc. - Guttation : a process in which water in liquid form is given off by plants. - Occur : to happen; take place; come to pass. - Aphids : any of numerous tiny soft-bodied insects of the family Aphididae of worldwide distribution, that suck the sap from the stems and leaves of various plants, some developing wings when overcrowding occurs: an important pest of many fruit trees and vegetable crops. week 6 = Early HIV drugs 'functionally cure about one in 10' = http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21783945 - Resurging : to rise again, as from desuetude or from virtual extinction. - Stuck : simple past tense and past participle of stick - Antiretroviral : inhibiting the process by which a retrovirus replicates - Bounces : to spring back from a surface in a lively manner - Remission : pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses. - Subsequently : occurring or coming later or after (often followed by to ). - Reappear : to come into sight; become visible. Week 7 = Dinosaur-killing space rock 'was a comet' = http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21709229 - carved out = sculpté - culprit = a person or other agent guilty of or responsible for an offense or fault. -overall = from one extreme limit of a thing to the other -reconcile = to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired -fitted = made so as to follow closely the contours of a form or shap e -pleading = the advocating of a cause in a court of law = supplication -dust = earth or other matter in fine, dry particles -Triggered = gachette = détente -earthquakes = a series of vibrations induced in the earth’s crust b the abrupt rupture. -huge = extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent -accurately = precise week 8 Arctic Nearly Free of Summer Sea Ice During First Half of 21st Century, Experts Predict [] >loss = something that is lost >trendsetters = a person or thing that establishes a new trend or fashion. >likelihood = the state of being likely or probable; probability. >deeper = extending far down from the top or surface >shrinking = to draw back,devient de plus en plus petit >surprisingly = causing surprise >coarse = composed of relatively large parts or particles, grossier, rude >spread = to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface >extend = length, area, volume >outcomes = a final product or end result

WEEK 9 New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Power the Grid http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424140603.htm

>enable = to make able ; give power >sudden= happening, coming, made, or done quickly >storage = capacity or space for storing = garde meuble >to smooth = lisse = free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough >undergo = to be subjected to; experience >chamber = room >drawbacks = disadvantage; an undesirable >glassware = articles of glass, especially drinking glasses >hosts =a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere = hôtes

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 * Human Brain Cells Developed in Lab, Grow in Mice **

>seamlessly = combined in an inconspicuous way >Smoothly = free from projections or unevenness of surface >Spinal = or belonging to a spine or thornlike structure >Spasticity = of the nature of, or characterized by spasm >overactive = exceptionally or excessively active >stem = the ascending axis of a plant >reliably = honesty = de manière fiable >strain = stress, pressure >mice = several mouse >rodentbelonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130520163859.htm >forthcoming = approaching in time >subtly = thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor >slightly = of little importance, influence >whether = used to introduce the first of two or more alternatives >regardless = without concern as to advice >primarily = essentially, mostly >bilingualism =the ability to speak two languages fluently > intermixed = to mix together ||
 * How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages **


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[] Dwindling : a decrease (diminution) To exert : to exercise The leading risk : the greatest risk A rate : a level (un taux) A strain : a pressure To provide : to deliver (fournir) To overuse : to overdoing (abuser de ) Bowel : intestin Tools : sthg you need in order to do DIY (outils) A War Without End, With Earth's Carbon Cycle Held in the Balance [] stgh widespread : when sthg extent all around you (très répandu) casual interest : an interest which is not really strong (désinvolte) to store : to stock – to keep sthg in huge quantities (accumuler) to release : to let sthg go away (relâcher-libérer) ongoing : sthg with limit and no fail (qqch de continu) to scavenge : to forage-to look for sthg (récupérer) sheer : pure Fragments of Continents Hidden Under Lava in Indian Ocean [] to drift : When a continent drift, it moves (deriver) to occur : to happen to soften : to moderate in turn : when two people speak and one speak after the other speak, after the other etc..(l’un après l’autre) to sand : to spread the sand (sabler) a crust : sthg Flip of a Single Molecular Switch Makes an Old Mouse Brain Young [] recovery : when someone is seek, he takes pills, this is the recovery (guérision) to monitor : to watch sthg and to follow it (suivre, surveiller) injuries : when someone hurt himself, he has got injuries (blessures) task = work to master : to control (maîtriser) loss of memories : to loose memory Suicidal Bacteria: Unicellular Organisms Occasionally Poison Themselves With a Toxin [] a trick : to play a trick signified make a joke (un tour- une ruse) to die off : when the first die, then the second, then the third etc… hence : therefore to retain : to keep sthg during a long time (conserver) to possess : to have sthg (posséder) a high amount : a huge quantity a poisonous effect : an effect which causes death Social Bees Mark Dangerous Flowers With Chemical Signals [] a bee : it is an insect which products honey a hive : the place where a bee product honey gathering : assembly-group nearby : not so far from here to trap : to make a trick landing : an arrival Brain Scans Might Predict Future Criminal Behavior [] likelihood : probability an inmate : someone who is in prison an offender : lawbreaker a path : a trail to steer from sthg : to be less close from sthg reoffend : to do sthg again to attempt : to try Don't Call It Vaporware: Scientists Use Cloud of Atoms as Optical Memory Device [] ethereal : fragile quantum : quantum mechanics is the old mechanics, the first view of mechanics field : a big park where we cultivate vegetables for example (un champ) to pulse : when you heart pulse you are alive (battre) a readout : information- measure to be in motion : to move (être en movement) to store : to keep in order (ranger) to handle : to take care of sthg or someone (s’occuper de) Carbon Dioxide Removal Can Lower Costs of Climate Protection [] to be a burden to somebody : to be a weight to somebody (être un fardeau) to alleviate : soulager a removal : an elimination a component : an element a mitigation : a moderation to cover sthg : to put a cover on sthg (couvrir) a scale : you to go up a scale when you are on the floor and you want to go on the roof (une échelle)
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Technique Unlocks Design Principles of Quantum Biology []

to mimic : to do the same thing that someone else (an imitator) to harvest : when the season is over you can harvest the corn (récolter) antennae : a butterfly for example has antennae on its head efficiency : efficacy newly : adjective for new (nouvellement) a dye : when you have white hair you use a dye in order to hide them (teinture) a timescale : when you have a work to do exactly for one day, this is a timescale (échéance)


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Oldest Fossil Hominin Ear Bones Ever Recovered: Discovery Could Yield Important Clues On Human Origins []

a clue : sthg that help to resolve an investigation (indice) to shed : to loose fully : completely to lead : mener to rely on sb : to trust sb to do sthg (compter sur qqn) an insight into sthg : a view (un apercu) to update : to keep inform


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Photonic Quantum Computers: A Brighter Future Than Ever [] to harness : to use resources (exploiter) efficient : competent (efficace) to take a sample : to test a sample (prélever un échantillon) a task : a mission output : production to take a path : to follow a route ||

WEEK 1 [] Hills : an area of land that is higher than the surrounding land rumble :to make a continuous low sound looming : happening soon and causing worry swaying : to move slowly from side to side shelter : protection from bad weather, danger or attack WEEK 2 Only connect [] Buck : used in a number of expressions about money, usually expressions referring to a lot of money centerpieces : the most important of something exquisite : very beautiful; delicate mice : plural of mouse embed : to fix something firmly into a substance WEEK 3 The battle against AIDS-Aim for victory [] appeal : a request to the public for money, information, or help bill:a request for payment of money owed, or the piece of paper on which it is written: stump : the part of something such as a tree that is left after most of it has been removed cease : to stop something WEEK 4 [] The hits keep coming Roughly : approximately blast : to destroy something with explosives boon : something that is very helpful and improves the quality of life hollow : having a hole or empty space inside aftermath : the period that follows an unpleasant event or accident crust : a hard outer covering of something WEEK 5 The Cambrian explosion [] claw : one of the sharp curved nails at the end of each of the toes of some animals and birds blink : When you blink, you close and then open your eyes quickly once or several times chilly : cold jellyfish : a sea creature with a soft, oval, almost transparent body WEEK 6 The psychology of time [] regurgitating : to bring back swallowed food into the mouth mush : food that has been cooked for too long whether : if diminish : to reduce or be reduced in size or importance scale : a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level of something forthcoming : happening soon dwell : to keep thinking about something, especially something unpleasant WEEK 7 Dark matter [] to nab : to take something suddenly, or to catch or arrest a criminal elusive : difficult to describe, find, achieve tantalising : to make someone feel excited or attracted beneath : under someone or something abuzz : filled with noise and activity fiddle : to act dishonestly WEEK 8 What is the cosmic microwave background? [|http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/03/economist-explains-cosmic-microwave-background] adorning : to add something decorative to a person or thing boffin : a scientist who is considered to know a lot about science and not to be interested in other things oodles : a very large amount of something pleasant coalesce : If two or more things coalesce, they come or grow together to form one thing or system irksome : annoying interplay : the effect that two or more things have on each other ||
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WEEK1: ** Stress can affect future generations' genes ** [] Vocab: Inheritance= prpoerty that you receive from someone when they die. Blank= something that is blanck have nothing recorded on it. Slate= a piece of slate used as a roof covering. Tiny= extremely small Average= the amount that you get by adding several figures together and then dividing the result by the number of figures. Adamant= determinated not to change your opinion. Far-fetched= very unlikely to be true. = WEEK2: Abnormal gut bacteria linked to severe malnutrition  = [] Vocab: gut: the tube in your body that food passes through. to prone: to suffer from something. siblings: (formal) a brother or a sister. rodent: an animal such as a rat or a rabbit that has long sharp front teeth. WEEK3: [] Vocab: a sharp increase, decrease is big and sudden a boon: something that is useful and makes your life easier or better a steep increase is large city dwellers: someone who lives in a particular place to trigger: to make something start to happen a downturn: a time when there is less business and activity and conditions becomes worse. WEEK4: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23091-cognitive-impairment-in-premature-babies-not-permanent.html Vocab: to nurture: to feed and look after a child while it is growing. to squish: to damage something by pressuring it until it is flat. to blossom: to become happier, more beautiful or more successful. genuinely: if something is genuine, it really is what it seems to be. WEEK5: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23145-genes-mix-across-borders-more-easily-than-folk-tales.html Vocab: insights: a clear understanding of a complicated situation. consistent: containing facts ideas that agrees with other facts. to cluster: to form a group of people or things.
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 * Greek economic crisis has cleared the air **
 * Cognitive impairment in premature babies not permanent**
 * Genes mix across borders more easily than folk tales **

Time to get smarter about stupidity
[] Vocab : Pointless : having no purpose, not worth doing. To patronize something or somebody : to help a particular person, organization or activity by giving them money. To humble : showing you do not think that you are as important as other people. Biases: a strong feeling in favour of or against one group of people, or one side in an argument, often not based on fair judgement.

Smell-o-vision screens let you really smell the coffee
[] Vocab : Fried chicken : a dish consisting of chicken pieces usually from broiler chickens. Veggie: vegetarian. Pellet : small particles typically created by compressing an original material. Streams : In computer networking, STREAMS is the native framework in Unix System V for implementing character devices. Pump something out of someone or something and pump something out : to remove something from someone or something by force or suction. Cartridge : (Electronics) an electromechanical transducer in the pick-up of a record player. Enhance : to intensify or increase in quality, value, power, etc.

WEEK 8:Electronic violin turns laser signals into music
[] Vocab: A bow : a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments. Groove: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape. Copper: an orange metal named Cu in the periodic table of elements. Downward: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position. ||

= Week 6: As Pollution Worsens in China, Solutions Succumb to Infighting = [] ominous : bad signal haze : weather :fog infighting: disagreement within a group enact: law crisscross: go back and forth across impede: hinder, slow progress coal: for fire, for make grilling during summer upgrade: bring up to date stringent: strict surge: something in development unbearable: something which is insupportable tailpipe: fumes which go back of a vehicle haggling: disputing a price shift: move something ||
 * Fabienne

[] Vocabulary : - to aim : to intend - sustainable : viable - routes : ways - to fund : to finance, to pay for - to provide : to furnish, to give - a hub : a centre - to embed : to establish (« implanter ») - to allocate : to give money (« allouer ») - to involve : to put a lot of effort into smthg (« s'impliquer ») Vocabulary : - roughly : bruttaly - to trigger : to cause (« déclencher ») - to collapse : to fall down - to burst : to explode - flyby : flight close to sth for observation (« vol d'observation ») [] Vocabulary : - dust particules : Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air. - novel : new, different - common : standard - ore : mineral with metal (« minerai ») - samples : specimens - to range : to vary - to skyrocket : to rise rapidly - to collide : to impact directly [] Vocabulary : - to endorse : to support - harshly : severly - priming : begining - device : mechanical - unscramble : put into coherent order (« démêler, déchiffrer) - likelihood : probability - counterintuitive : contrary to what seems intuitively right or correct - fairness : legitimacy (« impartialité, équité ») [] Vocabulary : - to endow : to equip - an insight : an idea - browser : « navigateur (internet) » - to spawn : to engender - foresight : looking to the future (« prévision ») [] Vocabulary : - a blueprint : a project, an idea, a plan - a scaffold : an elaboration, a construction - biosilica : biosilice - a grant : a subvention - to tailor-made : « fait sur mesure »
 * Baptiste
 * W****eek 1 :** York’s Key Role in Green Chemistry Research Project
 * Week 2 :** Russian 'meteor' was actually a tiny asteroid, NASA says
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 * Week 3** : Mineral Diversity Clue to Early Earth Chemistry
 * Week 4** : Thinking of Science Strengthens Moral Fiber
 * Week 5 :** Internet pioneers win engineering prize
 * Week 6 :** Germany, China create nanotech centre

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 * Week 7** : Black hole bonanza in 'next door' Andromeda galaxy

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- overwhelming : too powerful - nearby : close - lobster : « homard » - mere : just, no more than - scales : weighing thing (« balance »)

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 * Week 8** : A theory of everything ... has physics gone too far?

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- hitherto : until now - subsequently : next, then - minefield : aera full of expolsives - trickster : informal

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 * Week 9** : Drug laws "censor science", say researchers

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- outlawing : criminal - hindering : slow progress - contender : candidate - harmful : damaging - empower : authorize

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 * Week 10** : Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration

Vocabulary :

- peer : group - publishability : can be publishable - serendipitous : fortunate, fortuitous - livelihood : financial support ||

week 1 [] Venture: a risk that people take to discover something Feature: it is a distinctive attribute of something To tune: adjust or adapt to a particular purpose Along: move in a constant direction Background: circumstances or situation of a particular event Flavors: indications of the essential character of something Akin: something similar Raw: natural state Coveted: something that everyone want Further: at a greater distance Fellow: a person in the same position Sensing: perceive by a sense Photonic device: a piece made for the photonic science To rely on: have thrust in something A batch: a group Furnace: high temperature place, to cook for example Jumble: an untidy collection of things Unambiguous: not open to more than one interpretation Breakthrough: important discovery or development week 2 //http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130213132431.htm // vocabulary:Insulators:material device used to prevent heat, electricity, or sound from something.Computing: everything linked with computers.Edge: limits of the material Shuttle: to move something from a place to another placeDevice: a object or a equipment designed to do specific work.Lower: to put something under his first valueBroaden: to become wider, larger.Thin: have a smaller distance between opposite sides than other similar object.Weightless: having no weight, or appearing to have no weight. No gravity. screech to a halt: make a noise to do a break or a stop. week 3: [] Vocabulary: Premise: hypothesis Spread: go everywhere in the same time Stain: mark with something that is not easily removed Flu: other name of influenza Swine: pig or something that is very unpleasant to deal with. Submission: the action of accepting to a superior force reach : action of catch something or someone throat : passage which leads from the back of the mouth orally: action of to speak strain: make an usually great effort week 4 :
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 * Essential armchair reading for nanotube researchers **
 * Engineers Show Feasibility of Superfast Materials: 'Organic Topological Insulators' for Quantum Computing **
 * Influenza Study: Meet Virus' New Enemy**

Icy Cosmic Start for Amino Acids and DNA Ingredients
[] VOCABULARY: Prebiotic: existing or occurring before the emergence of life. Dusty: covered with dust. Milky Way: it is our galaxy Rungs: it is a step for the DNA Ladder: step Seed: cause (something) to begin to develop or grow Insight: the capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something Occur: happen Tenuous: very weak or slight week 5: =Length of DNA Strands Can Predict Life Expectancy= [] Vocabulary: strands : it is as a part of a long string rates : it is a measurement, a ratio telomeres : it is a compound structure at the end of a chromosome Shortened : make something shorter likelihood : it is a probability peripheral : something less important snapshot : a photograph on the instant, quickly week 6:

New Results Indicate That Particle Discovered at CERN Is a Higgs Boson
[] Vocabulary: Higgs Boson: it is a subatomic particle that unifies electromagnetic interactions. whether : it is a doubt between two or more alternatives. beyond : at or to the further side of. rate : it is a reference to a measure. decays: decomposition of a particle or a body, by bacteria. week 7:

Scientists Develop Innovative Twists to DNA Nanotechnology
[] Vocabulary: burgeoning : growing, developing menagerie : a group of something sensors : electronic device or sense organ frame : rigid structure mesh : it is a net tweezers: small pincer hand fan: something to make wind with your hand shuffling : a mix of many things cross-shaped: the form of a cross stacked : something on another and perhaps many others swapping : an exchange of things scaffold : something around a building during the build flipping : turn over backyard barbeque : the device allows to cook grilled things implement : execute hindsight: understanding afterwards mindset : the way of thinking strand : a part of cord 'staple' : basic mold : form for modeling week 8:

Cancer Biologists Find DNA-Damaging Toxins in Common Plant-Based Foods
[] Vocabulary: stems : plant stalk bitter: a bad flavor assessed: estimated sought : desired glows: give light fold : crease par : an average triggered : provoke fellow : guy dye: ink to color something vegan : someone who does not eat animal products oyster : type of sea food, we eat it often for the new year hickory : a type of tree week 9:

Couch Potatoes May Be Genetically Predisposed to Being Lazy, Rat Study Suggests
[] Vocabulary: willingly : with enthusiasm bred : to procreate couch : sofa thorough : a person who is an expert in something and wants everything is clear along: with or following the lengh

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Nanosponges Soak Up Toxins Released by Bacterial Infections and Venom
[] Vocabulary: Soak Up : action that make a sponger broad : something very big bloodstream : the ways which the blood go wide range : large area stings: what an insect does to eat our blood Decoys: make something false with doing thinking to others that it is true cloaking : when we hide ourselves appointment : a meeting puncture : make a hole rush in : go in hurry ||

[] =__False memories prime immune system for future attacks__= [] =__How forensic science will solve Pistorius shooting__= =__ [] __= = · A bail= a jail= = · A trial= a clinical test = = · An affidavit= a written statement = = · A wound= injury caused by weapon= = · To glean= gather bit by bit= = · A spatter= a splash, a spot= une éclaboussure= = · To swab= to clean = =__Atmospheric rivers caused the__ __UK____'s worst floods__= [] =Choking China: The struggle to clear Beijing's air= [] [] =__week 7:__= =__Bees to have their day in court over insecticide use__= [] beekeeper= someone who farms bees bumblebee= it is a sort of insect= bourdon to disrupt= to upset a ban= a prohibition ||
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 * to back up = to attest to
 * to be pass down = to pass on, to hand down
 * blank slate = sb not yet marked by experience
 * to spot = to detect
 * a proof = an evidence
 * adamant that = to maintain, to hold
 * in mice = plurial of mouse
 * offspring = children
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 * a line-up: succession of people
 * tailored: adjusted
 * a strain: stress
 * gut: entrails
 * measles: disease
 * a database: collection of data
 * nasty: unpleasunt
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 * skies : plural of sky
 * flood= it is when the water is overflowing
 * greenhouse gas emission= émission de gaz à effet de serre
 * ribbons= something long and thin
 * moisture = wetness= humidité
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 * Struggle= difficult endeavour
 * Smog= smoky fog
 * To rein in= to hold sb back
 * Dweller= sb living in a particular place
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 * Donor livers kept alive outside the body for 24 hours**
 * Ticking over : functioning, going on : tourner au ralenti
 * Discarded : junked
 * Livers : body organ
 * Plumbing: genitourinary system= voies urinaires
 * Storage : place of storing

This article deals with nanotechnology and in particular refills electronic objects. Scientists have succeeded with organic polymers to receive heat from the body to convert it into electronic energy. Fujifilm engineers want with this invention equip batteries Ipad and other Smartphones. This would reduce the lithium mining in south america and reduce CO2 emissions. Groundbreaking: Characterized by originality and innovation Unveiled: To remove a veil or covering from This paper addresses the topic of alcohol and its effect on the human nervous system. According to researchers, including Dr Amanda Ellison, alcohol does not allow a person to believe that a person becomes more beautiful. The theory of 'beer goggles' is challenged and refuted. Indeed, this preconceived idea that the appearance changes when we get drunk is wrong. Alcohol will influence our perception to make a judgment to make a decision. It will be easier to make mistakes because we are inhibited. In addition, alcohol influence on our pheromones that cause an unconscious way of reconciliation. Stiff: Difficult to bend Beer goggles: seeing people and things as becoming increasingly attractive as one's alcohol intake rises Fluke: Any of various flatfishes, especially a flounder of the genus Paralichthys This article announces the new technological innovation that Google will sell in a few years. These glasses connected to the outside with an internet connection. These fulfill the same functions as a phone. We can share pictures, movies, messages. You can even make video conferences. It is a jewel of technology. Purporting: To have the intention of doing; purpose Negotiating: To arrange or settle by discussion and mutual agreement Shantytowns: A town or a section of a town consisting chiefly of shacks. Spread: To open to a fuller extent or width; stretch Strains: To pull, draw, or stretch tight
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Slump: To fall or sink heavily; collapse Stalled: A compartment for one domestic animal in a barn or shed Rush: To move or act swiftly; hurry Lapse: To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct Treadmill: A mechanism rotated by people treading on the moving steps of a wheel. Churn: To agitate or stir (milk or cream) in order to make butter. Overhaul: To examine or go over carefully for needed repairs Subsidy: Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest. Squelch: To crush by or as if by trampling; squash. Sustainable: Capable of being sustained. Sluggish: Displaying little movement or activity; slow; inactive Bulky: Having considerable bulk; massive. Whilst: Same as while Mantle: A loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak. Bandwidth: The numerical difference between the upper and lower frequencies of a band of electromagnetic radiation, especially an assigned range of radio frequencies Wolfishly :  a voracious, grabbing, or fiercely cruel person or thing  Grab : <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> to seize hold of (something) <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Unerringly : <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> not missing the mark or target <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Pinpointed : <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> to locate or identify exactly <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Amid : <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> in the middle of; among <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Hover : <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">to remain suspended in one place <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Ambush : <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> the act of waiting in a concealed position in order to launch a surprise attack <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Prod: to poke or jab with or as with a pointed object <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Drowsy: heavy with sleepiness <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mind-reading:the human faculty to which are ascribed thought, feeling, etc; often regarded as an immaterial part of a person <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Symposium:a conference or meeting for the discussion of some subject, esp an academic topic or social problem <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Bring back: reduce <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Field:an open tract of uncultivated grassland; meadow <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rubles:the standard monetary unit of Belarus and Russia, divided into 100 kopecks <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Explode:to burst or cause to burst with great violence as a result of internal pressure, esp through the detonation of an explosive; blow up <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lax:lacking firmness; not strict <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Advocacy:active support, esp of a cause <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Long-haul truckers:a lorry driver <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Exquisitely:possessing qualities of unusual delicacy and fine craftsmanship <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Chimp:short for chimpanzee <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Cognition:the mental act or process by which knowledge is acquired, including perception, intuition, and reasoning <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Strengthen:to make or become stronger <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Breeding:the process of bearing offspring; reproduction Thick: of relatively great extent from one surface to the other Nascent: starting to grow or develop; being born Grid: a network of horizontal and vertical lines superimposed over a map, building plan, etc, for locating points Vastly: unusually large in size, extent, degree, or number; immense Flu: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">any of various viral infections, esp a respiratory or intestinal infection Plum: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">something of a superior or desirable kind, such as a financial bonus Poultry: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">domestic fowls collectively Sheep: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">any of various bovid mammals of the genus //Ovis// and related genera, esp //O. aries// (**domestic sheep**), having transversely ribbed horns and a narrow face. There are many breeds of domestic sheep, raised for their wool and for meat Forthright: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">direct and outspoken Pilgrims: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">a person who undertakes a journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion Waterfowl: <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">any aquatic freshwater bird, esp any species of the family //Anatidae// (ducks, geese, and swans Drooling:<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> often followed by **//<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">over //** <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">: <span class="definition" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">to show excessive enthusiasm (for) or pleasure (in); gloat (over)
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Coatings:<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">a layer or film spread over a surface for protection or decoration Widespread:<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">extending over a wide area Bankruptcy:<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">a person adjudged insolvent by a court, his or her property being transferred to a trustee and administered for the benefit of his creditors Beholden:<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">indebted; obliged; under a moral obligation Dishes :<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">a container used for holding or serving food, esp an open shallow container of pottery, glass, etc Parch : <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">to deprive or be deprived of water; dry up: //the sun parches the fields// ||
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**Week 1** = **Asteroid will come closer than satellites – but it's not the end of the world** = [] Vocabulary: Lump : big piece soar : to go up rapidly to glance : to look at glimpse : to see briefly keenly : with enthousiasm **Week 2** =**Anxiety drug found in rivers changes fish behaviour**= [] Vocabulary: bold : courageous sewage : it is water after using **Week 3** =**How 3D printing could revolutionise the solar energy industry**= [] Vocabulary: sustainable : for example there is the sustainable developement, the green developementhater: person who hatesbode: i don't know how defind that, the translation is présager **Week 4** **'Half asleep' seals may solve the mystery of how and why humans snooze, claim biologists**[]Vocabularyserotonin :sérotoninearousal : waking **Week 5** **Scientists find new kind of bacterial life in hidden Antarctic lake**[]Vocabularydrill: when you dig a very big hole with a machine beneath : below thick : dense borehole: hole drilled into the ground whet: aiguiser/affuter **Week 6** = **Lifelong exercise can improve brain function in later life, study finds** = []Vocabularyburden : pressurewilling: compilant or voluntary **Week 7** **London zoo: creature comforts**[]Vocabularypeer : to lookwrench : to twist **Week 8** **Rare Australian possum could be continent's first climate change victim**[]Vocabularypygmy:member of race of short peopledoom:failure/condemn **Week 9** **Brisk walk healthier than running – scientists**[]Vocabularybrisk : fast **Week 10** **Dinosaur embryos twitched in their eggs like those of modern birds**[]Vocabularynest: where birds sleep
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**Week 11**

** Painkiller use during marathons may increase health risk, says study **

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Vocabulary

painkillers: ease pain

breast: woman's organ

**Week 12**

= **Edinburgh panda artificially inseminated with dead male's sperm** =

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/22/edinburgh-panda-dead-male-sperm

Vocabulary

inseminate = impregnate

cub = a young of bear ( it can be used for dog or wildcat)

to mate = have sex for animals

to thaw = contrary of freeze

to breed = to procreate

to sedate = to tranquillize

**Week 13**

= Graphene paint could power homes of the future =

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10033806/Graphene-paint-could-power-homes-of-the-future.html

**Vocabulary**

layer : level/thickness put on top of sthg

**Week 14** **Arctic foxes' mystery decline linked to mercury exposure** http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/08/arctic-foxes-decline-mercury-exposure Vocabulary mangy : with patchy fur prey : hunted animal mice : plurial of mouse feces : solide waste collapse: To fall

**Week 15** **Youngsters use dementia drugs to boost brain power, survey finds** []

Vocabulary **dementia : deterioration of mentalfaculties** **widespread : affecting many people**

**Week 16** **Peering at bright screens after dark could harm health, doctor claims** [] Vocabulary stroke : problem with heart dampen : reduce effect awareness : knowledge **Week 17** **Bionic eye promises vision for the blind** []

Vocabulary the skull : head bone bespoke:fait sur mesure hardwired : directly circuited

**Week 18** **Cod stocks recover after years of overfishing** []

Vocabulary cod : ti is a fish in french is morue or cabillaud mushy : equivalent of soft ||


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**__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article one (09/02/2012) : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“International Space Station photograph captures giant 'underwater' wave spread over hundreds of miles in the Caribbean Sea” __// <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Stunning : spectacular, awesome <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Underwater : submarine <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Span : spread <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Oil rigs : “plate-formes pétrolières” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Aircraft : airplane <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Drops : falls **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article two (17/02/2012) : __** __<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/2012-da14-a-close-call-for-asteroid-big-enough-to-flatten-london-8496325.html __ //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“2012 DA14: A close call for asteroid big enough to flatten London” __// <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Flatten : crush <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Narrowly : closely <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Encounter : meet <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Roughly : not precisely <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rifle : sort of gun **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article three (24/02/2012) : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“A sensational breakthrough: the first bionic hand that can feel” __// <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">pioneering : innovator <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">limb : a body part <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">wiring : connection <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">clench : close his hand and hold an object <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">needles : a thing which prick <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">wrist : part of the body which is between the arm and the hand <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">underneath : below **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article four (03/03/2012) : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Money can't buy you the good life __// //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But loving relationships can, according to a new study of what people really value” __// **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Worthwhile : which has lot of valueLed : guidedCompelling : obliged <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Rated : classifiedWisdom : good sense **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article five (10/03/2012) : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Navy discovers 250 metre-deep ‘Grand Canyon’ beneath the waves of the Red Sea __// //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Devonport based ship created 3D images of the canyon, which was found after the ship left the Egyptian port of Safaga” __// <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ship : team <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Fitted :equiped <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hull : body <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Flooded : submerged <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tidal streams : movements of the see because of the moon <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Carving : sculpting <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Gaze : look, stare at **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article six (17/03/2012) : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“£80m 'wasted' on smallpox terror threat __// //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leading scientist says fear that terrorists might attack Britain with the virus was 'far-fetched' “ __// <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Foremost : the main, the more advanced <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Smallpox : varioleFar-fetched : crazy, impossibleSecurity Clampdown : the security which purchase the fraudDowngraded : classed less than beforeUnwieldy : “heavy”Release : improvementGerm-warfare : bacteriologic warSparked : made an interest inRow : misunderstandingFunding : means of buying **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article seven (24/03/2012) : __** __<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] __ //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Cancer halted in five patients after treatment with own genetically modified cells __// //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Results of the early-stage trial demonstrate that it may be possible to use the gene-therapy technique to control cancers in relapsed patients” __// **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">relapse : a fall againbone-marrow : “moelle osseuse”prognosis : prognostication <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article height (01/04/2012) : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[]//__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Watching TV for three hours a day will not harm your children, parents told __////__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Five-year-olds who view three hours or more a day are at no greater risk of emotional problems” __//**__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __**detrimental : prejudicialfor instance : for exampleimpaired : altered **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article nine (07/04/2012) : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Giant new kind of tarantula discovered in Sri Lanka” __// __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __ <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Dwindled: decreased <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Wildlife : faunaWhilst : whereas **__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article ten (14/04/2013) : __**
 * Fanny
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] // __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Smell of rosemary 'may improve memory'” __ // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;">Rosemary : romarin Enhance : increase Task : job Prospective : possibility Underpins : “sous-tend” **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article eleven (21/04/2012) : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Sperm and egg donors urged to reveal identity” ____<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Reach : achieve, arrive
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vocabulary: __ **

**__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article twelve (01/05/2012) : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Supermarkets 'distorted' scientific findings on alcohol” __ ** __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vocabulary: __ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Distorted : deformed <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">In a attempt to : In a trying of <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Sowed : dissiminated <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Counter-view : against view <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Derail : go out of rails <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Trackling : approaching

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article thirteen (06/05/2012) : __**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">//__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“US returns stolen $1 million Tyrannosaurus to Mongolia, as Asian nation builds 'dinosaur museum' in tribute to 70-million-year-old skeleton” __// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">**__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Prompting : encouragement <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Smuggling : contraband <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Looted : robben, stolen <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Mislabeling : mistake on the product’s name

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article fourteen (11/05/2012) : __**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">//__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“It's all in the brain! Scientists slow down ageing in mice __// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">//__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manipulating a molecule in almond-sized structure increased longevity by 20%, says study” __// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">**__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Almond : amande <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ageing : the action of being aged <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Maze : labyrinth <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Thickness : épaisseur <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lifespan : time of their lives **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article fiveteen (21/05/2012) : __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Ancient underground lake isolated from the rest of the world for 2.7 billion years discovered in Canadian mine - but does it contain life? __// //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Discovery could help in the development of techniques for finding extra-terrestrial life-forms living within underground pockets of water on the moons of Jupiter” __// **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Beneath : under <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Trap : imprison  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Aquifer : porous rock where we can find some water  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Boreholes : holes did by humans to find for example some petrol  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Surrounding geology : around the geology  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Beyond : au-delà **__<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article sixteen (25/05/2012) : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Hungry? Print a pepperoni pizza __// //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nasa is funding the development of printed food with an eye on the long-haul, long-stay space missions of the future” __// **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulaire : __** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Round-up : collect <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Dish : plate, meal <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Long-haul : long-mail <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Airway : respiratory ways <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;">Lung conditions : pulmonary infections

**__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vowels : letters like a e i o u y  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Deem : consider

** __<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article seventeen (03/06/2013) : __ ** //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Mammoth discovery? Jurassic Park takes a step closer to reality as Russian scientists find 'blood' in woolly mammoth __// //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Discovery in Siberia passed on to researchers who hope to clone extinct animal” __// <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[]

**__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Purported : pretended

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Astonishing : surprising

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Woolly : indistinct

**__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article eighteen (09/06/2013) : __** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] //__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Parents influenced by evolutionary tendency when naming children” __// **__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary : __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vowels : letters like a e i o u y

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Deem : consider ||


 * Lucie ||

__**1st Week:**__ **form scientist american magazine, Scientific American (30 november 2012)** ** New Life-Forms, No DNA Required ** __ **Vocabulary :** __ ** array : an orderly or regular arrangement ** **  to thrive : to grow strong, to prosper ** ** To suck out : if you suck something, you hold it in your mouth and pull at it with the mucles in your cheecks and tongue, for example in order to get liquid out of it. ** ** To weave : to incorporate, interlace ** **__2nd Week:__** ** form the Guardian, [] ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.5;">Scientists find new kind of bacterial life in hidden Antarctic lake ** __ **Vocabulary :** __ __**3rd Week:**__** form The Guardian, [] ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.5;">Tooth replacement in prospect after scientists grow teeth from mouse cells ** __** 4th Week: **__** form The Guardian, [] ****<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Fossilised giant camel bone found in High Arctic **** __Vocabulary :__ **** hump : a rounded protuberance on the back of camel ****  To unearth : to dig up out the earth ****  remains : any pieces, scraps, fragments that are left unused or still extant, as after se, comsumption, the passage of time. **** Flat : without projections or depressions ****  harsh : stern, severe, cruel ****  remnant : a part left over after use, a surviving trace or vestige ****  to slope : to lie or cause to lie at a slanting or oblique angle, to follow an inclined course ****  to sink : to descend or cause to descent  ** **  nearby : not far away ** __** 5th Week: **__ ** form The Guardian, [] ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.5;">If your dog is about to die, why not clone it? ** ** saccharine : excessively sweet, sugary** ** hurdle : an obstacle to be overcome ** __** 6th Week: **__ ** form The Guardian, [] ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.5;">Nasa Curiosity rover tests suggest life may have existed on Mars ** ** __Vocabulary :__ ** ** dust : dry fine powdery material, such as particles of dirt, earth or pollen** ** to drill : to pierce, bore, or cut in materiel with or as if with a drill ** __**7th Week:**__ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">**Scientists link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss** ** loss : the act or an instance of losing** ** shifts : to move or cause to move from one place or position to another **
 * Clarisse
 * to boast : to possess something to be proud **
 * storage : a space reserved for storing **
 * to stand for : to mean **
 * xeno : meaning foreign **
 * ladder : a portable framework of wood, metal... in the forme of two long parallel members connected by several parallel rungs or steps fixed to them at right angles ( for climbing up or down) **
 * to tweak : to twist, jerk or pinch with a sharp or sudden movement. **
 * to bind : to make or become fast or secure **
 * to enable : to make possible **
 * to paste : to fix **
 * to splice : to join ( two ropes) by intertwining the strands **
 * dusty : covered with or involving dust **
 * dust : fine fragments, grime, grit, particules, powder, powdery dirt **
 * a shelf : a flat piece of wood, metal wich is attached to a wall or to the sides of a cupboard. Shelves are used for keeping things on. **
 * spill : accident **
 * sample : a little of what you want to study **
 * drill : a rotating tool is inserted into a drilling machine or tool for boring cylindrical holes. **
 * beneath : below, protedted or obscured by **
 * sheet : a broad continuous surface, expanse or stretch **
 * strand : to leave or drive (ships, fish) aground or ashore or (of ships, fish) to be left or driven ashore **
 * borehole : a hole driven into the ground to obtain geological information, release water. **
 * tantalising : to tease or make frustrated, as by tormenting with the sight of something greatly desired but inaccessible. **
 * whet : to sharpen, as by grinding or friction **
 * ship : a vessel propelled by engines or sails for navigating on the water. **
 * shape : the outward form of an object defined by outline **
 * __Vocabulary :__ **
 * stem : the main axis of a plant, wich bears the leaves, axillary buds, and flowers and contains a hollow cyllinder of vascular tissue. **
 * To supersed : to take the place of ; to supplant **
 * jaw : the part of the skull of vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. **
 * kidneys : either of two bean-shaped organs at the back of the abdominal caity in man, one on each side of the spinal column. **
 * to coat : to cover (with) a layer or covering **
 * enamel : a coloured glassy substance, translucent or opaque, fused to the surface of articles made of metal, glass... for ornement or protection **
 * mesenchymal : the part of the mesoderm that develops into connective tissue, cartilage, lymph, blood... **
 * toed :having a part ressembling a toe (toe=feet fingers=orteil) **
 * badger : wild animal which has white head with two black stripes on it. **
 * warmer : characterized by or having a moderate degree of heat **
 * __Vocabulary :__ **
 * barking : mad, crazy **
 * breed : a lineage or race **
 * surrogate : a person or thing acting as a substitute **
 * to occur : to happen, take place, come about **
 * to thicken : to make or become thick or thiker **
 * thiker : coagulate, cake, clot, congeal **
 * rover : the robot who is on Mars **
 * clay : a very fine-grained material that consist of hydrated aluminium silicate, quartz and organic fragments and occurs as sedimentary rocks, soils and other deposites. **
 * soil : the top layer of the land surface of the earth is composed of desintegrated rock particules, humus, water, and air **
 * to beam back : to send out a radio signal or broadcast in certain direction **
 * form The Guardian, **__ ** http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-lo ** __
 * __Vocabulary :__ **
 * jet stream : a narrow belt of high-altitude winds (about 12000 metres high) moving east at high speeds and having an important effect on frontogenesis **
 * bitter : bitingly cold (=very, extremely) **
 * melts : to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied as a result of the action of heat **
 * to steer : to direct the course of (a vehicle or vessel) with a steering wheel, rudder **
 * stick around : to remain in a place **
 * in stark contrast : a huge contrast **
 * drought : a prolonged periode of scanty rainfall **
 * surge : a strong rush or sweep, sudden increase ** ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">backyard chicken farms : chickens who are bred outside - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">avian flu : bird's flu (grippe aviaire) - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">flock : <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">a group of animals - <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">eroded : <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">abrade, deteriorate - <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">crowded : <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">busy, congested - <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">overuse : <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> abus, excess - <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">manner : <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> approach - <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">manure : <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">excrement, fertilizer <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: - <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">grant : allocation - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">task : assign to, charge - <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">microbial life : microorganism, bacillus life - <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">wheel : The wheels of a vehicle are the circular objects which are fixed underneath it and which enable it to move along the ground. - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">spacecraft : space vehicle <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __ - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">tackle : approach, touch on, broach - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">mild : soft, light - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">cough : to expel air when we are sick (toux) - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">sore : painful - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">throat : <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">the back of the mouth (gorge) - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">earache : ear pain <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __ - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">caveat : admonition, caution, warning - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">afterwards : thereafter - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">bone marrow : the soft fatty substance inside bones. (moelle osseuse) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __ - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">outstrip : surpass - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">beyond : farther, past - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">skewed : modified - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">elsewhere : <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">not here, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">somewhere else - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">barely : hardly, scarcely - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">gain : acquire, attain <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __ - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">flu : influenza, grippe - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">swine : pork, pig - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">reluctance : unwillingness, reticence - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ascertain : check - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">widespread : expanded, prevailing - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">strain : stump - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">underpin : prop <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[] __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __ - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">released : output, published - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">amount : quantity - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">genetic glitch : genetic problem - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">shape : define, devise - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">gauge : calculate, count
 * Lucile
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 1 **
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Why Meat in China — and the U.S. — Has a Drug Problem **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 2 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Wisconsin Scientists Help Search for Alien Life **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 3 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Antibiotics resistance growing at 'alarming' rate **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 4 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">AIDS research: Cured of HIV? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 5 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Antibiotic resistance: why we must win the war against superbugs **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 6 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Swine flu cases resistant to Tamiflu are becoming more common, say scientists **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 7 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Britain ponders 'three-person embryos' to combat genetic diseases **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 8 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">America’s Supreme Court is to rule on the patenting of genes **

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__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- thorny: prickly

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- baffle: disconcert

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- airy: casual

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- worthy: deserving

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- spurious: wrong


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">WEEK 9 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">As new viruses emerge in China and the Middle East, the world is poorly prepared for a global pandemic **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[]

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- unwittingly: unintentionally

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- havoc: ravage, devastation

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- wake: track

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- forcibly : by force


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">WEEK 10 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">A heart to my key **

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__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: __

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- baddy: <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">bad guy

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">- fanciful: imaginative

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">- shape: form

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">- wristband: bracelet

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">- hook: catch, fastener ||

First reading: =**Iron man for real???**= [] Fanciful = fantaisiste. Waning = the diminution of Mundane = without interest. =**What a Watch !!!**= [] Pent up = refouler armband = brassard Harvest = récolte =**My sleeping....**= [] In a row = en rang. May shed light on = peut faire la lumière sur. Sleep deprived = privé de sommeil. The remainder = le reste.
 * Anthony

=**The future of the quantum information**= [] Overwhelmed débordé Stringent strictes =**New Particule**= http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/14/scientists-particle-higgs-boson =**Facephone**= [] =**The last Samsung... in video!!!**= [] =**New form of life**= http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/14/shadow-biosphere-alien-life-on-earth scraping off = grattement striking idea = very interesting idea =**Hacking airplane**= http://techland.time.com/2013/04/12/airplane-hacks-not-so-fast/ to debunk = to discredit / to say the opposite

=Orbital's Antares rocket makes test flight=

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22193330

payloads = payroll charges freighter = a company/person that builds boats

=Life on Mars to become a reality in 2023, Dutch firm claims= http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/22/mars-one-project-astronauts

snags = problems endeavour = efforts ||


 * Benjamin ||

__WEEK 1 :__ **Cognitive impairment in premature babies not permanent** //[]// __Vocabulary :__ **impairment** : the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically. **bleak** : without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary **preterm** : a baby born prematurely, especially one born before the 37th week of pregnancy and weighing less than 5½ pounds (2.5 kg). **to nurture** : to feed and protect ; to support and encourage, as during the period of training or development. **to blossom** : to flourish; develop. **dendrite** : the branching process of a neuron that conducts impulses toward the cell. **Ischemia** : a Pathology : local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow. **painstaking** : expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful. **to squish** : to make a gushing or splashing sound when walked in or on. **sapling** : a young person. = __WEEK 2 :__  = **Computing power everywhere** = //[]//  = __Vocabulary :__ **ubiquitous** : existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent. **grid** : a system of electrical distribution serving a large area. **throughput** : the quantity or amount of raw material processed within a given time, especially the work done by an electronic computer in a given period of time. **data** :individual facts, statistics, or items of information. **pervasive** : spread throughout. **embedding** : the mapping of one set into another. **to encompass** : to form a circle about; encircle; surround. **a sensor** :a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument. __WEEK 3__ : **Carbon Sponge Could Soak Up Coal Emissions** [|//http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130212100602.htm//] __Vocabulary :__ **a sponge** : the light, yielding, porous, fibrous skeleton or framework of certain animals or colonies of this group, especially of the genera //Spongia// and //Hippospongia,// from [|__which__] the living matter has been removed, characterized by readily absorbing water and becoming soft when wet while retaining toughness: used in bathing, in wiping or cleaning surfaces, **a coal** : a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel **a framework** : a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something. **to store** : to accumulate or put away, for future use **storage** : capacity or space for storing **current technology** : new; present; most recent technology **to trigger** : togiverise, setoff **a step-change** : a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves. **a cluster** : a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together **suitable** : appropriate; fitting; becoming **to overcome** : to get the better of in a struggle or conflict __WEEK 4__ : **Researchers Coat Spinal Polymer Implants With Bioactive Film to Improve Bonding With Bone** //__[]__// __Vocabulary__ : **coated** : having a coating, as of plastic, paint, or pyroxylin, to make it impervious to moisture. **a rate** : the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation **a spinal** :a spinal anesthetic **a surgery** : the branch of medicine concerned with such treatment. **shield** : broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, **to melt** : to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal. **surrounding** : enclosing or encircling. **a bone** : the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals __WEEK 5 :__ **Pour, Shake and Stir: How Gold Particles, DNA and Water Have the Potential to Shape the Future of Medicine** //[]// //__Vocabulary :__// **a dribble** : a small quantity of anything **to brew** : to boil, steep, soak, **to strand** : to be halted or struck by a difficult situation **a sample** : a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; **a clump** : a cluster of agglutinated bacteria, red blood cells, **scissors** : a cutting instrument for paper, cloth, etc. **to snip** : to cut with a small, quick stroke __WEEK 6__ : **Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shaping North Into South** [|//http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130310163758.htm//] __Vocabulary__ : **a cover** : a protection; shelter; concealment **seasonality** : the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons greenhouse effect : a building with transparent walls and roof, usually of glass, for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions **nearby** : close at hand; not far off; **thereby** : by that; by means of that **motion** : the action or process of moving or of changing place or position;movement **to enhance** : to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify **a patch** :a small piece of material used to mend a tear or [|__break__], to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place **a yardstick** : any standard of measurement or judgment **a shrub** : a woody plant smaller than a tree, usually having multiple permanent stems branching from or near the ground. **to thaw** : to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt **an outbreak** : a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption <span style="color: #ff950e; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">__WEEK 7__ : <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">**How to Thrive in Battery Acid and Among Toxic Metals** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">//http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130307190643.htm// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">__Vocabulary :__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;"> **algae** : any of numerous groups of chlorophyll-containing <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;"> **to withstand** : to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;"> **mineshaft** : excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;"> **drainage** : t he process or a method of draining <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;"> **to borrow** : to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;"> **to swip** : to hit hard with a sweeping blow __WEEK 8__ : //http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130321205712.htm// __Vocabulary__ //:// **iron** : Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery. **to elude** : to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, **to thwart** : to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose **to yeast** : to ferment. **the gut** : stomach; abdomen **a groundbreaking** : the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project. **to map out** : to sketch or plan <span style="color: #ff950e; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">__WEEK 9__ : <span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Blowing in the wind: How accurate is thermography of horses' legs?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">//http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/03/27/blowing.wind.how.accurate.thermography.horses.legs// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">__Vocabulary__ : <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **to pinpoint** : to locate or describe exactly or precisely <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **lame** : crippled or physically disabled, especially in the foot or leg so as to limp or walk with difficulty. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **a draught** : acurrentofair,esponeintrudinginto an enclosed space <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">**a forelimb** <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;"> : <span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">a front [|limb]<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> of an animal <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **gentle** : kindly, amiable ; not severe, rough <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **to keen** : to wail in lamentation for the dead ||
 * Claire V
 * Quirky Lyme Disease Bacteria: Unlike Most Organisms, They Don't Need Iron, but Crave Manganese**

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 * <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">First Gene Therapy Successful Against Aging-Associated Decline: Mouse Lifespan Extended Up to 24% With a Single Treatment **

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 * vocabulary**

lengthen= rallonger

feasibility= faisabilité

average= moyenne

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">to delay= retarder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/29/neuroscience-david-eagleman-raymond-tallis
- our skulls = nos crânes - while deepening= tout en approfondissant - the awe= la crainte - all of which compete to steer the ship of state= toutes sont en concurrence pour diriger - to stare= regarder fixement - unaware= ignorant - in a feedback loop= dans une boucle de retroaction - to be granted = être accordé - despondently = découragé - to enhance= renforcer
 * Vocabulary : **

__ Jonas __ =Gadgets work under your skin – but are you ready?= [] arm=bras sensor=tactil skin=peau creepy feeling=sentiment effrayant
 * Vocabulary: **

__ Pascaline __ Finding: découverte Tricky: délicat pin down: définir exactement hint: allusion forerunners : signes avant-coureur hotly : avec feu Molars shrank and skulls grew : Les molaires ont diminué et les crânes ont grandi Chewing : mâchement freed up : libéré en haut huge discrepancy : divergence énorme brains : intelligence
 * Ash traces hint at cave cuisine 1 million years ago **
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__ Charlotte Montécot __ =Antiviral drug backed for use in HIV prevention= http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21804-antiviral-drug-backed-for-use-in-hiv-prevention.html widely : largement landmark: étape importante whether: si to ratify: approuver acquiring: acquisition guidance: conseils

__ Samantha __

** Cloaks for hiding heat **
[]_ Ubiquitous everywhere Involved in : implicated Tug : pull Track: path Stacked: empilé

__Rémi__ []
 * World's most sensitive scales detect a yoctogram**

__Vocabulary:__ Scales: device which permit to measure a mass Yoctogram: 1 yoctogram equals 1 * 10-24 grams Septillionth: 1/1*10-24 Zeptogram: 1 zeptogram equals 1 *10−21 grams Vacuum: it is space that is empty of matter To disrupt: to disturb, obstruct something Chemical samples: small quantity which we examine in order to determine the composition or the presence of an anomaly

__Amandine__ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21757-dont-let-up-in-war-against-antibiotic-resistance.html
 * Don't let up in war against antibiotic resistance**

__Vocabulary:__ a dire warning = avertissement terrible emergence = resistance organ= hanche overuse = surutilisation unsanitary = insalubre disinartius = incitation unethicol = contraire à l'ethique drain = fuite

__Eloi__ =Cancer death rates fall among 50-somethings= http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/15/cancer-death-rates-50-somethings

__Vocabulary:__ diagnosis : diagnostic overall : global to highlight : mettre en évidence breakthroughs : percées screening : dépistage lag : retard

**I thought there were 13 of you in the group but there are only 8 posts today, February 16th 2012.**

__**2010/2011:**__ __**charlotte**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #990000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;"><range type="comment" id="439791">‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Violent Video Games Alter Brain Function in Young Men ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ []

__**samantha**__ <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 22px; vertical-align: top;">Radiation sickness treatment shows promise http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336443/title/Radiation_sickness_treatment_shows_promise Chest: general part of the body with which we can breathe Marrow: in the middle of our bones Gut: pipe of our body, to digest the food Leak: when we will escape from someone or something Clotting: when the blood become thick and no fluid Mop up: to bring some things far away, like sweep these things Latch on: to bring something in its hand Aftermath: consequences what’s arrive after we make something bad (consequence)

__**Rémi CAVROIS**__ http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-11/enhancing-lab-chip-smartphone-screens-could-analyze-bio-samples-disease __Vocabulary__ : touchscreen = an electronic screen who works when we touch him the lab-on-a-chip = "le laboratoire sur une puce" fingertips = the end of the fingers to ail = to worry hurdles = obstacles moisture = when there is some water in the air to squirm = to twist in all directions
 * Smartphone Touchscreens Could Analyze Biological Smears to Diagnose Illness**
 * smears = m**edical taking

__**Nicolas Journet**__ =Speed of light broken by neutrinos? – live Q&A= [] Key words: neutrinos= subatomical particules speed of light rule= in physic, the speed of light cannot be broken. to tear up = to destroy a paper. to shed some light= to try to understand underpins= to support an idea or the understanding of something


 * __Johan COMBE__**

Radiation levels in Fukushima are lower than predicted
<span class="wiki_link_ext">[|http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21181-radiation-levels-in-fukushima-are-lower-] [|than-predicted.html] To leak = to lose The threshold = the level Acute = serious A tract = a large area To dodge = to avoid Unevenly = not regular

__**Jonas HUGUES**__

Pigeons are more living helicopters than flying rats
[] around the bend: autour de la courbure surprisingly= étonnament enclosed= clos rotate= pivoter path= chemin/trajectoire

__**Charlotte MONTECOT**__

Brain find sheds light on autism [] Vocabulary : a fault=a flaw : opposite of quality obvious : evident to echo : to take again suitable: appropriate a cautious : careful

__**Wafa:**__

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CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD:

1…....... make the « perfect » foam: a) scientifics b) scientists

2 Physicists …... breakthroughs a) did b) made

3 To progress scientists have to do....... a) research b)researches c) researchs

4 When the ….... made advances, science rise a) searchers b) researchers

5 To make breakthroughs, we have to do before...... a) experiences b) experiments

__**Answers:**__ 1. b 2. b 3. a 4. b 5. b

Academic year 2009-2010. =__Please TAKE CARE when editing pages!__= Please add the link to your article and your vocabulary and expressions in the box where you find your name.
 * 25 November**

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Laura

How Babies Think
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__Key words :__ irrational : illogical egocentric : egoist experiments : test/research analyzing: examine theories: hypothesis/assumption abilities: aptitude/capacity observation: view/noticing psychological: cerebral

Eloi =State-of-the-art neurotechnology in the classroom= http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2011/nov/29/1 __Words for the game__: neuroscience electrodes component cockroach challenge feature optogenetic

[] __Vocabulary:__ unable = incapable outcomes = résultats unpleasant = désagréable spurred = stimulé riots = emeutes rattled = secoué argued = faire valoir far-reaching = de grande anvergure sharpest = plus fort spread = répandre patterns = modèles affordable = prix abordable disrupt = perturber ||
 * **Amandine**
 * The machine that would predict the future**


 * Reading Science project 2010**


 * Marion ||


 * Joanna

Blocking a Common Sugar Molecule May Be Key to Preventing Scar Formation (13/12/2010)
[] //Scar// = A track left on the skin by a fall or a burn //scar-free healing// = Cure the injury without having of tracks //gooey// = viscous //Extracellular slime// = It’s a layer which surrounds the cell to protect her from environmental dangers //Surgery scarring// = physical damage who make a scar after an operation at the hospital //Spur// = The noun for saying the incitement to //A wound// = an injury //to help seal the wound shut// = Help the injury to close //germ-filled// = microbe //the odds of infection// = the “chance” to have an infection //It's an odd thing// = it’s a strange, an unusual thing ||


 * Lucile ||


 * Hugo

Kazakhstan's president urges scientists to find the elixir of life
[] to keep him going = to be able to continue to stave off death = to be healthy rejuvenation = to be young again ||

[] Ø T slip = glisser / échapper Ø T slaken their grip = relacher leur emprise Ø T shrug smtg off = ignorer quelque chose Ø T be prone to = ignorer quelque chose Grim = sinistre / effroyable Debilitating fear = peur affaiblissant moralement ou physiquement Almond-shaped =yeux en amande Ø T undergo = subir / suivre (un traitement) Trials = déboires / ennuis Ø Strengthened = renforcé / consolidé To reawaken = faire renaître ||
 * Amélie
 * The Molecules of Fear**


 * Bachir

**T. rex ancestors were vegetarians, scientists say**
[] Diet of plants = To consume only plant food Hunting down = to go hunting (la chasse) Snacked = nibble (eat quickly) To took turns over the years = to evolve over the years Shift away = abandoned, forsaken Handful = poignée Zeroing in something = to reach 0 % of something Yield = performance, efficiency To turn away from + noun = se détourner de To turn away from + V-ing = se détourner de ||

TIME Magazine. September 6, 2010. lousy:ugly your body doesn't give a hoot: your body doesn't warn you tiresome: boring slaughterhouses: premises where animals are killed cattle: animals bred in farms to coax: to persuade arable land: land that can be cultivated ||
 * Marine
 * What's so great about organic food?**


 * Camille ||

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=farming-the-future-gm-crops GM : genetically modified to improve something : to make something better otherwise : differently, in an other way to jeopardize something : to make someting in danger the lack of something : the fact that someting missing to somebody ||
 * Chloé
 * Farming the Future: GM Crops Recommended as Key Part of Obama's "Evergreen Revolution"**

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mass-migration-chemists Beneath = under It turns out that : il se trouve que aforementioned = mentioned earlier to swap = to change clumsier : le moins maniable arduous = very hard pinpoint = “locate” brackets : crochets pond = lake ||
 * Christian
 * Mass Migration: Chemists Revise Atomic Weights of 10 Elements.**


 * ===**Claude Annaëlle**===

Old and Wise: Why Do Smarter People Live Longer?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=old-and-wise to with­stand : to resist to strap : to attach onslaughts : impacts ||

**Parkinson's Progress: Some Neurons Are Responsible for Starting and Stopping of Actions** [] Disease = illness, malady Pervasive= invasive Mice=mouse Tiny=minuscule Lack=absence Subse­quently=therefore Per se= in itself ||
 * Florent

vocabulary:
 * Laura
 * Heavenly illumination: The science and magic of stained glass**
 * []#**
 * a stained glass : a window which are in church
 * a surrogate : a substitute of
 * to bear : to support
 * a misconception : a wrong idea
 * thicker : larger
 * tessellating : making a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps
 * bright : brilliant, vivid
 * inkling : having an idea of
 * a furnace : a oven
 * to depict : to represent
 * enamelling : decorative technique or simply print
 * merely : only ||


 * Laurène ||


 * Alexis ||

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/14/china-north-korea-diplomatic-meltdown Wag= to make something move Underpinned= supported by Drumbeat= demand Enhanced= improved Treachery= not respect his commitments Hang over= to threaten Disclosure= revelation Built up= to create Hell bent= to be determine Blithely= without worries Strain= tension Unruly= lack of discipline Envoy= diplomat Bland= without taste Jitters= to be afraid Sow confusion= to throw people into confusion ||
 * Louis
 * Now North Corean defies even China**

http://www.sciencenews.org**/** - honeybees: //is a bee that makes honey of them flying together// - solving a problem: //you find a solution or an aswer to it// - roots: //the roots of plant are the parts of it that grow under the ground// - underfoot: //discibe smth as being underfoot when you are standing or walking on it// - wisdom: //is the ability house your experience and knowlegde in order to make sensible decisions or judgements// - yield: amount produced - cognitive problem: //means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning and understan//ding things - trigger: //set in motion, provoke// ||
 * Romy
 * Rooting for swarm intellingence in plants**
 * -** swarm: //essaim, a swarm of bees or other insects in a large group//

@http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/14/microfluidic-paper - microfluidics than pH sensitive dyes = color changes with the value oh the pH - litmus paper = paper made with sunflower - liver = organ occupying the right part of the human abdominal cavity helping to maintain a correst balance of nutrients - polymer-lined channels = channels consisted to polymers arranged in a straight line - to harden = become harder - for + vb-ING || http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=earth-talks-wine-makers - according to him : in his opinion - greenhouse gas : gas which contributes to the global warming - tiny : very small - upwards of 90 percent : more than 90 percent - to launch : to create - to balk at the idea : to refuse the idea - brand : mark || [] //**carcinogenic**// : compounds which can give cancert []
 * Reading Science project 2009**
 * Marine
 * Microfluidic paper passes the litmus test**
 * Cécile
 * Organic wine-makers look to greener packaging**
 * Marion
 * Accidental Discovery Produces Durable New Blue Pigment for Multiple Applications**
 * //more environmentally benign//** : less dangerous for the environment
 * //a patent//** : it gives you all right of propriety for an invention
 * //furnace//** : oven where you can heat chemical compounds ||
 * Benjamin
 * Chemist shows how RNA can be the starting point for life.**
 * Vocabulary:**
 * thwarted:** //to prevent the realisation//
 * likened:** a like
 * whether:** used to introduce different alternatives
 * prebiotic:** food ingredient that help digetion
 * tricki(est):** requiring great tact or skill ||
 * Vivien

Buckyballs
http://www.nanotech-now.com/nanotube-buckyball-sites.htm the science of snowflake [] __Vocabulary:__ [] -**Tanning =** Suntan -**Skin wrinkling =** It's the ageing of the skin -**Sunless tanning products =** There are self-tanner products -**Subsequent reactions =** They are the following stages of the mechanism of the tanning -**Sunburn =** It's after a sun exposure, when the skin becomes red and burns -**Drawbacks =** Inconveniences || =New compound provides a better cage for carbon dioxide= http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=new-compound-provides-a-better-cage-2009-11-30 -thus neatly solvin -industrial kiln -ease of regeneration -kinks ||
 * hollow spheroid**: witch formed a sphere
 * drug-delivery system:** distributor of drugs
 * merely:** simply
 * withstand:** resist
 * unharmed:** intact ||
 * =Mathilde=
 * tiny:** very small
 * sheets:** a large rectangulaire piece
 * smooth:** not rough
 * shape:** specific form
 * to gather:** to bring together into one group ||
 * Fleur
 * How do sunless tanners work?**
 * __Vocabulary:__**
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 * Julien
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 * Michael

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[|Nanotubes] seanless : smooth wire : cord, line tensile : stretch probes : sensor wich indicates something gentler : sweet insulating : something wich prohibits transfers || =Nobel Prize in Chemistry= http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=nobel-prize-in-chemistry-09-10-07 -unraveling : the fact to sepear -shone: something wich is lighting like a star -scatter pattern :to throw everywhere a drawing -inner : inside -refining : cleansing -accuracy : something which is exact -monitoring : something to control -bonds : something you have to do -realm : the kingdom -roughly : something not precise -to stitch : to sting (like a bee) || Adding Iron to Ocean Won't Stop Warming [] plan to + BV ; could be taken up : could be examinated ; ocean fertilization : is slowly raising the average temperature : the increase of tempeature is slowly ; Earth wouldn't heat up as fast : Earth is not warming faster ; want to lock up the excess carbon dioxide : want to trap the CO2 in ocean ; phytoplankton : plankton which photosynthesize ; copepods : I think family of whale Some scientists want to pump C02 deep into The amount of biomass : a study on species in their natural environment ; microscopic creatures : creatures which don't exceed 1 mm || [] - **to pioneer sth:** to be the first to design sth - **a pioneer:** a person who pioneers sth - **to succeed in doing sth** - **groundbreaking:** révolutionary - **sustainable:** which laste long time, lasting || http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=can-americas-trains-go-high-speed-09-06-25
 * Aurélie
 * Philippe
 * =Elise=
 * Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastics Without the Use of Fossil Fuels**
 * =Sébastien no article!= ||
 * Simon
 * Can America's trains go high-speed?**
 * High speed trains:** trains whose speeds are more than 250 kph
 * it zips along:** the trains drives very quickly ||

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 * ===Article 19===

__Vocabulary :__
Make headway : to proceed forward; advance; progress. Available :suitable or ready for use. Exemple : I used whatever tools were available. AR technology : augmented-reality technology Overlay : to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another Surge : a strong forward movement. Exemple : the onward surge of an angry mob. Provided : on the condition. Exemple : I'll go provided that the others go, too. Split : to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two. Pop-up book : a book (usually for children) that contains one or more pages such that a three-dimensional structure rises up when a page is opened ||

__**Quantum effects bring no solace Silanethiones reach for physicists,**__ __**http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026824.500-quantum-effects-bring-no-solace-for-physicists.html**__ __V**ocabulary:**__
 * ===Article 18===
 * the stars a mirage : a false idea particles : Components of the atmosphere(or the universe). supersymmetric particles : In particle physics, supersymetric is a symetry that relates elementary particles of one spin to another particle that differs by half a unit of spin and are known as superpartners. Inherent : a part which is necessary and inseparable of a subject. Measurement : is the estimation of the magnitude of some attribute of an object. guesswork : an hypothesis . LHC : Large Hadron Collider is Large Hadron Collider Treatement on a plate (drug addiction)** ||

The economist Pathway :
 * ===Article 17===
 * A bundle of nerve fibers following a path through the brain. To be subverted (by chemical) = to be addicted to this chemical Message-carrying molecules To enhance = to improve To be drug-free Dietary : A system or regimen of dieting. A regulated daily food allowance Withdrawal symptom : Any of a wide range of symptoms associated with the discontinuance of a drug by a person who has become addicted to it. Lack : Deficiency or absence. Relapse : an act or instance of relapsing. a return of a disease or illness after partial recovery from it. Virtual Worlds, real healing** ||

Text taken from Science magazine ; web site : http://www.sciencemag.org
 * ===Article 16===
 * healing : natural process by which the body repairs itself emerging : emergent, coming into existence provide : give something useful or necessary remotely : at a distance, far away** ||

Patients who are frozen in time, The Guardian Weekly
 * ===Article 15===
 * chilly: appreciably or disagreeably cold gleaming: shining, flashing warehouse: a storehouse for goods and merchandises storage: the act of keeping or laying something aside for future use to top up: to fill something dewar: container used to store liquide oxygen eerie: suggestive of the supernatural, mysterious to poll: to get the opinions, the votes of people to fulfill: to satisfy, to meet the reequirements or expectation of someone to vitrify: to change into glass by heating** ||

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.200-digital-images-contain-their-makers-mark.html http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2008/12/Silanethiones_reach_for_the_stars.asp telltale outer space : the area outside the earth's atmosphere where the other planets and stars are situated clearly showing elusive: something bucket : cylindrical container wells : hole made to draw up fluids lens : ( optics) transparent piece of glass for focusing array : collection to work out : mettre au point jarring : have disturbing effect on somebody shelf : used to narrow down : to find ||
 * ===Article 14===
 * Digital images contain their maker's mark**

Vocabulary: _Fleet: group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership. _Slump: a measure of consistency of freshly mixed concrete. _forefront: The leading position. _takeover : When one company takes over the ownership of another. _shareholder: Any person, company, or other institution that owns at least 1 share in a company. _brokerage: A fee charged by a broker to execute a transaction for you. _wrongheaded: having an obstinately perverse opinion or judgement. _faltering or hesitation: the act of pausing uncertainly _tremendous: extremely large. _earnings : Net income for a company. _liabilities: anything someone that is owed elusive is difficult to someone else. find, or describe ||
 * ===Article 13===
 * Start building new atomic station now, urges British Energy chief**. From guardian.

the form in which things such as sound, light, and radio signals travel nuclei dust: : the central part it's very small dry particles of atoms, consisting of a number of protons and neutrons. earth or sand droplets shell: : small particles of moisture (eg, spatter) that may be generated when water is converted to a fine mist. carapace particles surrounding: : Components of when you are describing the atmosphere composed of solid or liquid matter. Particles may be both released from place where you live at the earth's surface, such moment, you can refer to it as dust or smoke, or formed in the atmosphere, as in rain or ice particles or sulfate aerosol. your surrounding hail second row: : Hail is a form second-rate = of precipitation which consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice (hailstones). poor quality drought data: : A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its toast supply. accurate : onforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy. crops : Crops are plants information that can be grown stored and harvested or picked to eat or to sell. Crops are grains used by a computer program polarimetric radar : A radar capable of measuring any or all of the polarization-dependent attributes of a target or backscattering medium. ||
 * ===Article 12===
 * Rain on demand waves:, Chemistry World September 2008**

unravelling: to cope: to face and deal with responsibilities, problems, or difficulties. sustainable: actions and products that meet current needs without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet theirs. cutback: if you unravel a reduction in quantity or rate. to outstrip: to surpass. to slake: to make less active. sedan: an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons. soaring: climbing swiftly or powerfully. stagflation: an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity. skirmish: a minor or preliminary conflict or dispute. spur: anything that goads, impels, or urges, as to action, speed, or achievement. ||
 * ===Article 11===
 * Coping with a persistent oil crisis, Scientific American**

Big Bang No 2, The Guardian Weekly
 * ===Article 10===
 * http://www.guadianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=649&catID=8**
 * mistery, it gradually becomes clearer**
 * the hense: Large Hadron Collider(LHC): Large Hadron Collider so**
 * an hadron: to enable: particle like protons or neutrons a collider: an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced if someone enables you to collide head on a beam: a structural element a thread: a long thin and flexible form of material a swallow: a deep chasm or abyss in do particular thing, he gives you the earth opportunity to intricate: to elaborate / having many complexy arranged elements utterly: completely, entirely the booster synchroton: a motor-generator of particle accelerator threading: the process by which application processing is broken into separate elements a needle: a temporary large wooden beam which supports the section of a wall above an opening the vacuum chamber: a metal chamber from which the air can be pumped out fairly: without favoring one party / in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating popping champagne corks: "sabrer le champagne" (i'm sorry, i didn't find a good definition in english) milestones: a significant event in a life or in a project / kilometre sign** ||

"Apple go for gold" http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/apple-go-for-gold-970842.html vocabulary prompting : persuasion formulated as a suggestion expectation : the feeling that something is about to happen to buffet : strike against forcefully Steve Jobs : Apple's CEO (chief executive officer) laptop : portable personal computer a shipment : a load downturn : a decline in a stock market or economic cycle to tilt : ask Simon... ||
 * ===Article 9===

Meteor streaking across Canadian sky caught on video http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=meteor-streaking-across-canadian-sk-2008-11-24 to witness : to see, be present at, or know at first hand streak: (of lightning) a sudden flash meaningful : having great meaning or validity to occur: to take place to land: to come down or bring (something) down to earth after a flight or jump "Brown clouds" changing weather, United Nations report says www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fg-brown14-2008nov14,0,4431319.story leading : greatest in importance haze : atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility patterns : the way in which physical and human features occur or are arranged threat : something that is a source of danger field : a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed stove : an appliance that may be used for heating, cooking or both widespread : affecting a large area crop : a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale yield : an amount of a product unsustainable : the present use, consumption or harvesting of natural resources that can not be continued into the future underpin : support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm soot : fine particles which are released into the air when fuels like coal, natural gas, gasoline and diesel motor vehicle fuel, oil and word are burned ||
 * ===Article 8===

Chemistry Nobel for green jellyfish protein jellyfish: A marine animal with a saucer-shaped, jelly-like body and stinging tentacles. blue light: A portion of the light spectrum of macular degeneration that is suspected of being harmful to the retina. yeast: any of various single-cell fungi capable of fermenting carbohydrates. dozens: A large number. deafness: partial or complete loss of hearing. to flicker: to move back and forth very rapidly, to flash intermittently (the candle flickers). Kitchen chemistry, chemistry world , october 2008 ahead : in advance to lead the way : to be the best raw : natural scaffold : a platform from which criminals are executed waxes : derived from petroleum distillates or residues fibril : a fine fiber droplets : small particles of moisture Annotating the Real World From the scientific American October 2008 pop-up book : a book that contains one or more pages such that a three-dimensional structure rises up when a page is opened magic book : refers to the softwear which can convert a 2D image into a 3d image, like that, the book seams magic... AR technologies : technologies which works on image split among suppliers : to separate them ||
 * ===Article 7===
 * http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14895-chemistry-nobel-for-green-jellyfish-protein.html**

'Assassin cell' therapy to tackle HIV: web link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/10/hiv-medical-research-cell-therapy-gene __Dictionnary: A clinical trial of 35 patients: do it is a test with 35 patients Drawn a blank: don't success for something__ ||
 * ===Article 6===

The rise of the emotional robot http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826506.100-the-rise-of-the-emotional-robot.html?page=1
 * Article 5
 * resplendent : beautiful disc-shaped : a body which looks like a disc vacuum cleaner : It’s an household electrical appliances used to clean the floor a survey: some studies about a subject in order to obtain informations drudgery: a work or a task (for example: to tid up your house) to weld : action with a specific tool in order to make a union between two parts. lawns : the plant that grown in the garden rod : long and thin piece of a device boundaries : the limit which make two things separed (physically or not physically) yield: the work done in relationship with a unit used (example: the time, the power, an area...)** ||

Recipe For A Better Coffee , http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=8E5210E0-E7F2-99DF-3A4F3162CEAE71E3 recipe : a list of ingerdient that tell you how to cook something culprit : the cause of a problem or a bad situation groundbreaking : important thing bitterness : a sharp, not sweet, and often slightly unpleasant taste to roast : to cook something by dry heat in an oven or over a fire Computers virus strikes at three London hospitals. www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/19/security-nhs/print vocabulary : shutdown : noun the act of closing a factory or business or stopping a large machine from working, either temporarily or permanently. emergency : a sudden serious and dangerous event or situation which needs immediate action to deal with it. to divert (to) : to make sb/sth change direction. elderly : used as a polite word for ‘ old ’. disrupted : to make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way. a breach : an action that breaks an agreement to behave in a particular way : ex. a breach of security (= when sth that is normally protected is no longer secure) circumvent : to find a way of avoiding a difficulty. cumbersome : slow and complicated. ||
 * ===Article 4===

Silanethiones reach for the stars http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2008/12/Silanethiones_reach_for_the_stars.asp
 * ===Article 3===
 * __//outer space//__**: the area outside the earth's atmosphere where the other planets and stars are situated
 * //elusive://** something or someone that is elusive is difficult to find, or describe
 * //waves://** the form in which things such as sound, light, and radio signals travel
 * //dust://** it's very small dry particles of earth or sand
 * //shell://** carapace
 * //surrounding://** when you are describing the place where you live at the moment, you can refer to it as your surrounding
 * //second row://** second-rate = of poor quality
 * //data://** information that can be stored and used by a computer program
 * //unravelling://** if you unravel a mistery, it gradually becomes clearer
 * //hense://** so
 * //to enable://** if someone enables you to do particular thing, he gives you the opportunity to do it ||

=Apple go for gold= http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/apple-go-for-gold-970842.html Vocabulary ||
 * = Article 2 =


 * ===Article 1===

Nanomachines Powered by Light
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=light-powered-nanomachines //harnessing :// the exploitation
 * //albeit ://** equals to although
 * //crosswise ://** it's an adverb, in the direction transverse
 * //in the neighborhood// //://** when the frequence is near 10MHz you are in the neighborhood of this frequence ||

Fabienne C.

Week 1 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: In California, Reading the Snow to Tell the Future for the Water Supply [] -hiking: walk for a long distance, across country or in the woods -groundhog: reddish brown North American marmot -hint: a slight or indirect indication or suggestion -lull: a temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity -farmland: land used for farming -gauge: an instrument or device for measuring the magnitude, amount, or contents of something -depth: the distance from the top or surface of something to its bottom -forecasting: predict or estimate a future event

Week 2: Connecting the Neural Dots [] -inquiry: an official investigation -interwoven: something which is interlaced, interconnected -gather: accumulate, amass something -paradigm: an example -leap: a jump -shrink: to contract something -skull: head bone -encompass: to include -prosthetic: artificial body part

Week 3 : In Medical First, a Baby With H.I.V. Is Deemed Cured [] -cured: someone who is get free of a illness -sharply: as quickly -womb: place where is located the foetus -withdraw: to retract, to remove something -latent: in medicine, it's a molecule or a part of the body which is inactive -arduous: something which is difficult, a challenge -leukemia: cancer of the blood -cure: a treatment, something used in order to cured someone

Week 4 : Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years __ [] __ -warmer: more hot -roughly: approximately -warming: something which permit to heat up -sustain: continue at same level -wobbled: back and forth movement -shift: move -prompt: quick -slope: incline -worrysome: causing worry

Week 5 : A Tide of Death, but This Time Food Supply Is Safe __ [] __ -s laughterhouse: place where animals are killed -to dump: abandon something -barge: boat type -pitchfork: fork for lifting hay -gutter: water channel at roadside -undertake: realize a project -shovel: tool for digging -hog=pig -drone: the sound emitted by a cat when it's happy -roar: the sound made by a lion -prey: animal catch by an other animal -hunt: sport killing (in the case for an animal) -dainty: delicate -snatch: to take -munch: chew noisily -grab: take hold of
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Week 8: Florida Algae Bloom Leads to Record Manatee Deaths [] -bloom: when flowers begin to born -endangered: species in extinction -toll: extent of damage -soak: place something i the water -oysters: food in the sea, food eating for Christmas -lenghty: to be long (in high)

Week 9: Russia skips hybrids in push for cars using natural gas [] -tank: something to stock a liquid -trunk: rear compartment for a car -payoff: profit, benefit -trucker: lorry driver -wholesale: price of distributeur -refuel: refill with petrol -undercut: sell at a cheaper price than

Week 10: How therapy can help in the golden years [] -weighing: a weight in the head of someone -doable: possible to do -alleviate: dicrease a pain, a suffering -assessment: an evaluation of something -locked: someone 'closed' in himself -awareness: a knowledge

Week 11 : A drone’s eye view of nature [] -whir: a buzzing sound -sandhill crane: a type of bird (grue in French) -geese: plural of goose, a type of duck, white and who bite -wetland: land with a high rate of humidity, with water -staple: basic -slated: a black board where children write -gauge: an instrument for measurement -to gather: to collect -smooth: a structure not rough, a material with a fine texture -hurdle: an obstacle -wingspan: width of wing for a bird or a plane

Week 12 : In pursuit of an underwater managerie [] -shade: area not in sunlight -herded: a crowd (for people) -albeit = if only -vanished: disappear -reef: a meeting of coral in the sea -snapshot : a stop on a picture -depth: profoundness

Week 13 : A dream for trees aglow at night [] -aglow: illuminated, glowing -pledge: a promise -tinkerer: person who fixes things -cognizant: aware -timetable: schedule -pests: bad insect

Week 14: Wells Dry, Fertile plains turn to dust [] -dust: particles in the air -struck: hit -gallon: mesure's unity (litters) -waterlogged: soak of water -aquifer: geological water source -scorching; burning -depletion: running out -cropland: agricultural land -cops: action to cultivate when a fruit or a vegetable is mature

Week 15: Drug used to treat kidney cancer may hold off relapses of ovarian cancer [] -relapse: return of an illness -spouse: husband, wife -to arise: spring up -worsen; get worse -throat: passage inside the neck

Week 16: Pressure Grows to create drugs for "superbugs" [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-outbreak: disease <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-pipeline: tube for carrying oil <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-frantic: nervious, agitated <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-dwindling: diminishing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-overuse: to much use <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-grant: give, cede