Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!

I'm Nancy Sun…

And I'm Trevor Tortomasi.

In today's news:

Hearing Taiwan's sound in a symphony, smelling a whale's health in poop, and a new spinoff for WandaVision.

All that and more, coming up next.

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國家交響樂團表演1分鐘交響曲

NSO Performs Second '1-Minute' Piece

Many of the pop songs (流行歌曲) we hear are 3 or 4 minutes long.

But symphonies (交響曲) are different.

Some of the most famous symphonies are much longer.

Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is about 30 minutes long.

And Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 is just over 1 hour long!

Can you imagine listening to one piece of music for such a long time?

But Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra is trying out something a little different.

It performed a symphony that is just 1 minute long.

The symphony was composed by Cheng Ya-tzu.

It's called "Falling".

NSO國家交響樂團舉辦了音樂會，表演作曲家鄭雅慈的作品「墜落之時」。

Cheng says her symphony shows the feeling of falling, and how there's no real beginning or end.

"Falling" is the second 1-minute symphony performed by the NSO.

The first was "Trauma", composed by Chou Jun-ying.

The orchestra says it came up with the idea of 1-minute symphonies to find talented (有才華) young people who can write music showing Taiwan's sound.

NSO說希望透過簡短的交響樂創作，找出有潛力又可以展現台灣獨特的聲音的作曲人才。

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流浪犬靠鼻子成為野生虎鯨的守護神

Poop-sniffing Dog Helps Save Whales

Dogs have an amazing sense of smell (嗅覺).

They help us find people, drugs (毒品), and even bombs.

But one dog's sense of smell is being used to help us find…poop!

Eba was a puppy, just a few weeks old, when someone left her outside an animal shelter in California.

After months of care from vets and workers at the shelter, Eba was adopted by Dr. Deborah Giles.

Dr. Giles is a scientist who studies killer whales (虎鯨).

She noticed that Eba has lots and lots of energy, and loves playing with toys.

This makes Eba the perfect type of dog to be part of Conservation Canine.

Conservation Canine saves dogs from animal shelters.

It trains (訓練) them to find wild animal poop, or scat.

Scientists need the scat (糞便), because they can test it and find out lots about the wild animal it came from.

From scat, they can learn what the animal is eating, what's happening in its environment, or even if the animal is pregnant (懷孕).

And Eba was a natural (天生好手).

She and Dr. Giles head out into the ocean on a boat.

Eba smells the air.

When she smells killer whale scat, she will whine, or lick her lips, and turn her head to the right direction (方向).

And when they find the scat, Dr. Giles will put it in jar.

Then Eba gets her reward…playtime with a toy!

Dr. Giles says Eba and other dogs like her are doing amazing work, helping to save killer whales and other wild animals.

Dr. Giles說Eba的工作非常重要，可以幫助科學家在不打擾野生虎鯨的狀況下，更深入了解它們的身體狀況和環境改變。

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汪達與幻視外傳

WandaVision Spinoff Coming

A Marvel television show could be getting a follow-up.

WandaVision was the first Marvel show on the Disney Plus streaming platform.

It had nine episodes, and was very popular.

There is now talk that the show will have a spin-off.

汪達與幻視是漫威宇宙第一個串流電視節目，據說可能會拍外傳。

Reports say that the spin-off would focus on the character of Agatha.

In the show, she was Wanda's and Vision's friendly neighbor (鄰居).

She also turned out to be the villain of the show.

The rumored project could be an origin story (原創故事) for the character.

外傳主角可能是汪達與幻視的鄰居，阿嘉莎·哈克尼斯。

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So, in today's News Bites:

Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra performed a symphony that is just 1 minute long.

The symphony called "Falling" was composed by Cheng Ya-tzu.

Cheng says her symphony shows the feeling of falling, and how there's no real beginning or end.

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Eba the dog is a conservation canine.

She uses her sense of smell to help scientists find wild animal scat.

Scientists can use the scat to learn what the animal is eating, what's happening in its environment, or even if the animal is pregnant.

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And,

Reports say WandaVision will have a spin-off.

The spin-off could focus on the character of Agatha, Wanda and Vision's friendly neighbor.

The rumored project could be an origin story for the character.

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And that's today's episode of News Bites!