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Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Trevor Tortomasi…
And I'm Nancy Sun.
In today's news:
Macro photography, microchips, and a superhero television show…
All that and more, coming up next.
昆蟲生活影片 贏得生態環境影展獎 Film About Bugs Wins Award In Ecological Film Festival
Are you afraid of bugs?
Could you watch them for a whole hour?
It seems like many people could, because one film about bugs has won an award in Taiwan!
The film is called "Insect Life: Micro-Kenting" (蟲生 微觀墾丁).
It was made by the director Zhan Jialong (詹家龍), together with Kenting National Park, in the year 2018.
And this year, it won the award for "Best Photography" (最佳攝影) at the "Taiwan Ecological and Environmental Film Festival".
In the film, Director Zhan used special kinds of photography, called "macro-photography" (微距攝影).
"Macro" means "big", and this kind of photography makes small things look much bigger and closer.
He also used high-speed cameras (高速攝影機), to catch every movement of the superfast bugs.
The high-speed cameras slowed down the movements of insects by more than 20 times. 高速攝影機讓昆蟲的速度慢二十倍。
In this way, he was able to adjust (調整) the bugs' movements to a speed that humans can experience more comfortably.
Director Zhan says he became interested in bugs when he visited Kenting in his childhood (童年).
And now he hopes this can help people experience and understand the tiny world of insects, just like he did. 他希望這部紀錄片，能讓其他人跟自己一樣享受昆蟲微小的世界。
So if you're really interested in something, see if you can make a movie about it.
Maybe you can get other people interested, too!
科學家創造出 世界最小的飛行微晶片 Scientists Create The Smallest Ever Flying Microchip
Have you ever looked inside a computer?
You might not understand everything that is happening inside computers, from the outside.
But if you open one up, you might find lots of "microchips" (微晶片).
"Micro" means "small", and these chips are made to be tiny, so the computers can be smaller, too.
Of course, these aren't the kind of chips you can eat…
These are tiny processors, that work together to process all the numbers each computer needs to "think" about. 微晶片是一種處理器，很多微晶片可以集合起來，處理電腦所要思考的數字。
Now, scientists have created one of the smallest microchips yet… and it can fly!
They're calling it the "microflier".
But it has no engines… rather, it has tiny helicopter blades that can let it float on the wind. 這些微晶片沒有引擎，而是用非常小的直升機葉片讓它們飄在空中。
Researchers can let many of these microfliers go with the wind, and then they can send data back, after they land on the ground. 科學家讓這些小飛行晶片隨風飛行，降落地面之後就可以回傳資料。
They are made to collect (收集) data about the environment, such as animal populations, and even the spread of diseases.
They'll help us understand our world in many different ways, but we aren't stopping here.
How much smaller do you think we can get?
So, in today's News Bites:
A film is called "Insect Life: Micro-Kenting" has won an award in Taiwan.
It was made by the director Zhan Jialong, together with Kenting National Park, in the year 2018.
Director Zhan used macro-photography and high-speed cameras to catch every movement of the tiny bugs' lives.
And,
Scientists have created one of the smallest microchips yet… and it can fly!
This microflier has tiny helicopter blades that can let it float on the wind.
Researchers can let many of these microfliers go with the wind, and then they can send data back after they land on the ground.
And,
Rumors say a superhero movie is getting a television show.
Reports claim a program about the Penguin is in the works at HBO Max.
Colin Farrell plays the Penguin in an upcoming Batman movie, and would reprise the role in the show.
And that's today's episode of News Bites!