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Record-breaking heat is affecting plants in many places around the world. But gardening expert Jessica Damiano says selecting the right plants and a little care could save them. Damiano wrote recently that her tomato plants have not developed much in the past few weeks, but her flower garden is doing very well. Despite temperatures over 37 degrees Celsius in the New York area, Damiano said she has...

Weeks after its international launch, Worldcoin is drawing the attention of officials around the world. Kenya’s government has gone so far as to shut down the service. The international ID company, backed by big investors in Silicon Valley’s technology industry, now has to defend itself in investigations. The central question is whether the biometric data that the company is collecting is sec...

Scientists have discovered fossils that might have belonged to the heaviest animal in Earth’s history. The blue whale holds the current record as the largest creature to live on Earth. But a collection of bones found in Peru might break that record. Researchers recently introduced the whale species in a study in the publication Nature. It is called Perucetus colossus, or “the colossal whale from P...

Wildfires on Hawaii’s island of Maui have killed at least 55 people and destroyed a historic town, officials said. The number of deaths is expected to rise even higher. Officials said it will take years to rebuild Lahaina, the one-time capital of the former kingdom of Hawaii. Governor Josh Green said the fire was the worst natural disaster in the state's history, making thousands of people homeles...

This is the moment steam enthusiasts have been waiting for: the moment Flying Scotsman, in its classic green livery, and with steam pouring from its chimney, thunders back onto the East Coast Main Line, where it made its name. 这是蒸汽爱好者一直在等待的时刻：飞行的苏格兰人号穿着经典的绿色制服，伴随着从烟囱中喷出的蒸汽，轰鸣般地回到东海岸干线，并在那里成名。 Passengers, who've paid up to £450 a tic...

Sea ice in the Antarctic area fell to a record low this year. The drop is a result of rising temperatures worldwide. And there is no quick fix to make up for the damage, scientists said recently in a new study. Antarctica’s minimum summer ice cover, which last year dropped below 2 million square kilometers for the first time since satellite monitoring began in 1978, fell further to a new low in Fe...

The players who reached the knockout round of the Women’s World Cup received larger individual bonuses than those of the past. The increased earnings can be life-changing for many of the players. FIFA, the world’s soccer organizing body, pays $30,000 for the 732 players among 32 teams in the 2023 World Cup. The amount rises to $60,000 for players on the 16 teams that advance out of group play. The...

The ancient remains of a female Neanderthal found in a remote cave in the mountains of Siberia are the source of the latest revelations about the sex lives of our ancestors. Hidden within her genome are traces of DNA from modern humans which reveal a genetic crossover that took place 100,000 years ago. 在西伯利亚山区一个偏远的洞穴中发现的女性尼安德特人的古代遗骸是有关我们祖先性生活的最新启示的来源...

Productivity can be a struggle for many of us. Overflowing email inboxes, housework, social obligations – it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. However, one simple tool that can help us stay on top of everything is the to-do list. Write it down, do the tasks and cross them off – simple! 对于我们许多人来说，生产力可能是一个难题。 爆满的电子邮件收件箱、家务、社会义务——很容易让人感到不知所措。 然而，一...

Throughout history, technological progress has brought new wealth but has not always improved people’s lives. Economists now say it is not clear whether artificial intelligence (AI) will help or hurt society. Simon Johnson teaches economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology near Boston. He said AI has a lot of possibilities. But he added, “We are at a fork in the road.” A fork in the ro...

A major American game maker has banned designers from using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create artwork for its games. The company, Wizards of the Coast, owns the product collection for the popular game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). The role-playing game, set in an imaginary world, was first launched in 1974. Toy manufacturer Hasbro is the parent company of Wizards of the Coast and th...

An ocean researcher at the University of California, San Diego says waves are getting bigger and stronger since 1970. There are also more “big wave events” than ever before. A big wave is about four meters tall or more. Peter Bromirski at the university’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography looked at seismic records going back to 1931 in his research. Seismic information is often used to measure t...

Flights coming from the US to Europe normally benefit from the powerful winds from the jet stream, which can boost speeds by up to 300 km/h. But this new study says that advantage will be undermined by rising emissions of CO2. 从美国飞往欧洲的航班通常会受益于急流带来的强大风力，速度最多可提高 300 公里/小时。 但这项新研究表明，二氧化碳排放量的增加将削弱这一优势。 Climate change could increase the j...

Japanese railway operator, Seibu, is testing a special help desk for foreigners at one of the company’s busiest train stations.↳ Visitors who need help at the Seibu-Shinjuku station in Tokyo can go to an information window and ask questions. About 135,000 people per day pass through the Seibu-Shinjuku station. To get help, a person just speaks into a microphone. A system called VoiceBiz...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently said that by law food makers are permitted to add sesame to their products. They also must identify sesame content in their foods on product packaging. Sesame is the seed of the sesamum or benne plant. It is used to make oil and the seeds themselves are often used on bread or baked goods. The seeds come in black and white colors. Sesame...

Summer is a great time of year – but, unfortunately, it's not just us humans that enjoy it. Mosquitos seem to make the most out of the season by biting us, and as well as being annoying, mosquito-borne diseases can be dangerous. What can we do to avoid getting bitten? 夏天是一年中的美好时光，但不幸的是，享受夏天的不仅仅是我们人类。蚊子似乎通过叮咬我们来充分利用这个季节，蚊子传播的疾病不仅令人...

A new fossil study by researchers from China and Canada suggests that ancient mammals may have attacked and eaten larger dinosaurs. 中国和加拿大研究人员的一项新化石研究表明，古代哺乳动物可能攻击并吃掉了更大的恐龙。 The scientists looked at a fossil found by a Chinese farmer in 2012. A fossil is the mineralized remains of an animal or plant left in an ancient rock. 科学家们观察了一位中国农民在 2012...

More restaurants in Japan are offering bugs in their dishes. 日本越来越多的餐馆在菜肴中加入虫子。 On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto ate a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, which is usually made with raw fish. He drank a water bug  cider . 最近在东京度假时，山本拓海吃了一顿特别的午餐，包括咖喱蟋蟀和蚕生鱼片，这些午餐通常是用生鱼制成的。 他喝了一杯水虫苹果酒。 Th...

In her latest gardening story, Jessica Damiano tells of the garden pests and diseases she has seen in her plants. The Associated Press writer suggests acting quickly when combatting garden pests and diseases. When not dealt with quickly, pests and diseases can quickly grow and reproduce. That can result in less plant growth and worse health, less flower and fruit production, or even death of your...

Researchers say they have identified earth movement signals that could predict earthquakes up to two hours before they hit. The signals were recorded, or detected, by GPS collection devices. The devices were positioned in areas where major earthquakes had struck in the past. Scientists noted, however, that the right equipment does not currently exist to use the data to predict earthquakes. But if...

Olympic Games organizers in France presented the 2024 Olympic  torch  that will light the Summer Games in the country a year from now. In the Olympic torch tradition, many people carry the torch in turn from Greece to the current location of the Games. After it has traveled thousands of kilometers, the torch will light the Olympic  cauldron  at the Opening Ceremony of the next...

The American space agency NASA has offered its satellite technology to Brazil to help identify destruction in the Amazon rainforest. 美国宇航局向巴西提供卫星技术，以帮助确定亚马逊雨林的破坏情况。 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson made the offer during a recent trip to Brazil. The NASA chief visited the country’s space agency – the National Institute for Space Research – in the southeastern city of Jo...

Japan recently put in place export controls on the latest microchip, or semiconductor, technologies. Observers said the move targets. Japan’s export controls follow other recent restrictions enforced by the United States and the Netherlands, two other major producers of the most modern semiconductors. Japan listed 23 kinds of semiconductor technology that have export restrictions. The restrictions...

While black rats have spread rapidly throughout the world over the past 400 years, they've tended to avoid mature forests, disliking the leafy floors which are noisy for these rodents to run through. 虽然黑鼠在过去 400 年来在世界各地迅速蔓延，但它们倾向于避开成熟的森林，不喜欢绿叶茂盛的地板，因为这些地板对于这些啮齿类动物来说会很吵。 Now researchers have found that the clearing of rainforests in t...

A South Korean music production company is using a method of artificial intelligence (AI) to create different language versions of pop music songs. The company using the method is HYBE. The company represents and produces music for some of South Korea’s top pop music performers. Korean pop music is also known as K-pop. The AI method combines voice recordings of South Korean pop stars with recordin...