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Thanks to data collected by satellites, scientists have a good understanding of Antarctica's icy surface, but what lies beneath has remained more of a mystery. In fact, more is known about the surface of some planets in our solar system than much of what's under the continent's ice. 得益于人造卫星采集到的数据，科学家们对南极洲的冰层表面有良好的认识，但潜藏其下的部分则一直更像是一个谜题。实际上，人...

Many of us grew up learning that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch – an idea dating back to the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. But what if this list is incomplete? A sense is anything that can give your body information about the outside world, and some of these don't neatly fit into the traditional five. Modern scientists estimate there may be up to 33 differen...

72-year-old Samaila Adamu is repairing this faulty generator using very unique tools. 72岁的Samaila Adamu正在用非常独特的工具修理这台有故障的发电机。 After losing his vision 26 years ago, Adamu learned to spot motorized faults through sound and touch. 26年前失明后，Adamu学会了通过声音和触觉来识别机动故障。 When people bring generators for repairs, I touched the parts and feel them, then I know wha...

Are you one of those people that sees faces in inanimate objects? Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have been trying to find out why this is. They have pinpointed a circuit in an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain. It's called the superior colliculus, and it helps us recognise facial features. It triggers movement of the eyes, turning of the head and enables us to detect faces...

As a puppeteer, I make puppets as well. I build my own puppets. I perform. 作为一个木偶师，我也制作木偶。我自己做木偶，自己表演。 If it's my own production, then I have to write the story. 如果是我自己的作品，那我就得写故事了。 People love puppeteers. Whenever I tell people, people ask me, "What do you do?" 人们喜欢木偶师。每当我和别人交流时，他们就会问我：“你是做什么的？” I say, "I'm a puppeteer....

Aggressive medication used during a clinical trial paralyzed her left arm and leg. 临床试验期间使用的强效药物导致她的左臂和左腿瘫痪。 As a nurse, Gersh knew she had to take action quickly in order to get moving again. 作为一名护士，格什知道她必须迅速采取行动，以便恢复行动。 Everything was totally limp and flaccid on the left side. She found Neofect, a tech company that uses games to retrain the br...

Humans do it, chimpanzees do it, even polar bears do it. And now a study has shown that kissing likely evolved about 21 and a half million years ago. 人类会接吻，黑猩猩也会接吻，甚至北极熊都会接吻。而如今，一项研究表明，接吻很可能是 2150 万年前出现的。 The mouth-on-mouth kiss is actually something of a biological puzzle, with no obvious survival or reproductive benefits, so the Oxford University-l...

Laughter is so important. Laughter is medicine. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people, one of the best gifts we've ever been given. 笑是如此重要。笑是良药。 笑是两个人之间最短的距离，是我们最好的馈赠。 I've been doing stand-up for 15 years. So, I've seen all different kinds of laughers. 我做脱口秀已经15年了。我看过各种各样的笑法。 There's the inside laugher, they don't make any nois...

My name is Ethan. I'm 10 years old. I worked on some robots and a game. It's kind of difficult. I hope I can make five or to seven games by the end of this week. 我叫伊森，今年10岁，我做过一些机器人和一款游戏，有点难。我希望在本周末之前能制作出五到七款游戏。 Code Ninjas is a center where children, ages 7 through 14, learn how to code. We want to leverage screen time and make it productive. Code Ni...

I'd say that I was always a person that liked to tinker with stuff, tinker with Legos, so on and so forth. 我是个喜欢修修补补的人，也喜欢拼乐高之类的。 But it wasn't really until I got here to UVA, had access to the woodshop, that I realized that I really liked, you know, woodworking. 但是我是来了弗吉尼亚大学之后，才开始接触木工活，然后才意识到我非常喜欢木工活。 I've been just following the plans...

Paradise in peril. As the world battles a pandemic, large swaths of the African continent have been submerged by floods. 天堂岌岌可危。当全世界都在与疫情作斗争时，非洲大陆大片地区被洪水淹没了。 This is the scene in the eastern Ugandan city of Jinja along the shores of lake Victoria. 这是乌干达东部金贾市维多利亚湖沿岸的场景。 Since march flooding has left more than 400 people dead in east Africa....

Ada Tembeli is amongst a number of entrepreneurs who didn't get a formal education, but found a new and easier way to do business with the help of an app. Ada Tembeli是许多没有受过正规教育的企业家之一，但她借助一款应用程序找到了一种全新且更便捷的经商方式。 Here are your lovely fruits. We have nice ripe oranges, apples, bananas. Without forgetting to mention the pineapples. 为你们准备了美味的水果。...

Kevin Mbenza keeps smiling despite a setback. A flat tire just as he was ready to start training. 尽管遭遇挫折，凯文·本扎仍然保持微笑。就在他准备开始训练的时候，他的轮胎爆了。 I came here to train with my friends, so that you know I'll be ready when they announce the competition. 我来这里和朋友们一起训练，这样当他们宣布比赛时我会做好准备。 The 16-year-old dreams of becoming a cycling champion as w...

It's the robotic version of man's best friend. The four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics is being put to work at Ford Motor Company in Michigan. 这是机器人版的人类最好的朋友。波士顿动力公司的这款四足机器人正在密歇根州的福特汽车公司投入使用。 We were looking at a way to get into tight spots within our facilities, and spot who we nicknamed Fluffy came up as a brainstorming idea. 我们当时正在想办法...

When her employer cut her hours, Maria Hernandez, a healthcare worker turned to driving for Lyft, the ride-hailing firm to make up lost income. 当雇主削减了她的工作时间后，医疗工作者玛丽亚·埃尔南德斯转向为网约车公司来福车开车，以弥补失去的收入。 She likes it, meeting people and picking up work when she can. 她喜欢这份工作，既能结识人，又能在有机会的时候揽些活儿干。 I think the flexibility is a won...

This is what your brainwaves look like at any given moment. 这就是你的脑电波在任何时刻的样子。 To the untrained eye, it's just a jumble of lines. 对未经训练的人来说，这只是一堆杂乱的线条。 For AJ Keller and Alex Castillo, it's a treasure trove of data. 对AJ·凯勒和亚历克斯·卡斯蒂略来说，这是一个数据宝库。 The pair have created Notion, a 900-dollar wearable device that captures and processes brainwa...

This rocket is a rideshare to space for small satellites. We are the Uber and Lyft of low-earth orbit spacelift. 这枚火箭可以让小卫星搭便车进入太空。我们是低地球轨道太空运输的传送者。 Instead of passengers, the Rocket Lab vehicle carries small satellites. 火箭实验室运载的是小型卫星， 而不是乘客。 This is the amount of space each rocket has for satellites. It's about the size of the back of a picku...

My name is Helen D'Ann Dorris. I'm 76 years old. I live here in Geneseo, Kansas. 我叫海伦·丹·多里斯，今年76岁，现居堪萨斯州杰纳西奥。 I ended up taking this position as the librarian, which is a part-time position. I come from a family of nine children. 我现在兼职图书管理员。我们家有9个兄弟姐妹。 I have always said, I wouldn't trade that for the world. I learned a lot of things growing up in a lar...

I'm not the fastest milker in the world. The cow really is the central part for my homestead anyway, because she does so many things. 我不是世界上挤奶最快的人。不管怎么说，奶牛确实是我家的重心，因为她能做很多事情。 She provides the milk. She gives me one calf a year that will go in the freezer. 她能产奶，她每年给我生一头小牛，可以度过冬天。 This isn't for everybody, even people who want a homestea...

Is your house at its tidiest when you've got a deadline coming up? Do you have a list of jobs that you really need to do, but you really don't want to start doing? Procrastination can mean that we spend more time putting off a job than we'd ever actually spend completing it. Understanding why we do it might help us to understand how to stop doing it. 当截止日期临近时，你的房子是最整洁的吗？ 您是否...

Last year, global temperatures were cooled slightly by a natural weather pattern in the Pacific called La Niña. That meant it wasn't quite as hot as 2024, but the long-term trend is clear. The last 11 years were the hottest of all those recorded since the mid-19th century. And scientists fear that the planet could soon breach the long-term target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5...

My friends and family have always been like, I don't want to say they've been unsupportive, but they definitely did not understand what I was doing. 我的朋友和家人总是这样，我不想说他们一直不支持我，但他们肯定不理解我在做什么。 There are so many people who, for whatever reason, believed that they are not capable of practicing yoga. 很多人出于各种原因都认为自己没有能力练习瑜伽。 And I just thought...

My name is Chelle Dalager and I coach the boys varsity basketball team at Churchill County High School. 我叫切尔勒·达拉格，在丘吉尔郡高中执教男子校队篮球。 In the state of Nevada, I'm the first female coach to coach a boys varsity program. 在内华达州，我是首位执教男子校队项目的女教练。 There's really more to basketball than just the game of basketball. It really is about life lessons. Your life is...

At this ilicon valley high school, teachers are locking up students'phones. 在硅谷的这所高中，老师们把学生的手机都锁了起来。 Checking their phones and texting and going on social media, and I would confiscate the phone over and over and over. 他们不停地看手机、发短信、刷社交媒体，我就得一遍又一遍地没收他们的手机。 We were just playing for a night, like on top of the desks with their phones, like i...

The giant iceberg split off the Antarctic ice shelf in 2017. Named by scientists as A68a, it has since drifted towards South Georgia, a remote British island in the south Atlantic. 这座巨大的冰山于2017年从南极冰架崩离。这座被科学家命名为A68a的冰山随后向南大西洋上的偏远英属岛屿南乔治亚岛漂去。 Satellite images show it is still largely intact, some 150 kilometers long and 48 kilometers wide. 卫星图...