Scientists in Tsukuba, Japan, kept 16 laboratory rats awake for 24 hours, by keeping them in a cage filled with an inch of water, then exposed half of them to the smell of roasted coffee.

日本筑波的科学家们把16只小白鼠放到有1英寸深的水的笼子里，这样保证它们24小时不睡觉。然后，将一半的老鼠放在烘培咖啡的香气中。

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Infinity pools are designed to make it seem as though the water extends to the horizon. In reality, the edge of the pool is usually about an inch below the water level.

泳池的特殊设计让水体看起来如同延伸至视野的边际，但实际上，泳池的边缘被设计成在水平面之下的几厘米处，溢出的水会流到下方的一个集水池中，再被泵回泳池内。

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Your nose can smell up to 10, 000 different odors. Your touch can detect an item 1/25, 000th of an inch thick, and your tongue can taste one part of quinine in 2 million parts of water.

鼻子可以分辨一万种不同的气味；触觉可以感应到二万五千分之一寸厚的物品，你的舌头可以尝出稀释到两百万分之一的奎宁。

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"The camera shot was about an inch above the surface of the water and the hand virtually in the water, " said the artist.

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The study estimates that roughly half of that 0.43 inch rise was caused by thermal expansion of the oceans (as water warms, it becomes less dense and expands), some from from runoff from melting glaciers, and the rest from melting of Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets.

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"Billions of tons of water producing 6, 000 pounds per square inch did its work, " he said.

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