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