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This study  monitored  pregnant women who were working in rice fields in The Gambia. They were farming in direct sun for between two to eight hours, often in high  humidity . 这项研究监测了在冈比亚稻田里工作的孕妇。她们在阳光直射、且经常是高湿度条件下耕作两到八个小时。 Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say as a mother worked in the extreme heat the&...

The value to society of satellite  meteorology  is  immense . In terms of lives saved and  infrastructure  damage that's avoided, the returns on investment run into billions annually. 卫星气象学的社会价值是巨大的。就卫星气象学挽救的生命和因其免遭破坏的基础设施而言，每年相关投资的回报可达数十亿美元。 Europe's new Meteosat will replace technology that is now more than 20 yea...

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of very small plastic known as nanoplastics, a recent study says. 最近的一项研究表明，每升瓶装水中平均含有近 25 万个看不见的非常小的塑料，即纳米塑料。 Researchers found the nanoplastics with a microscope using dual lasers. 研究人员用双激光显微镜发现了纳米塑料。 Scientists long figured there were lots of these very sma...

Cameroon has begun the world’s first major malaria vaccine program for children. 喀麦隆已启动世界上第一个针对儿童的大型疟疾疫苗计划。 The campaign launched Monday in the Central African nation. Health officials called the effort a major step in the fight against the disease across Africa. The continent accounts for about 95 percent of the world’s malaria deaths. 该活动周一在这个中非国家发起。 卫生...

The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of  pornographic  deepfake images of the singer. 社交媒体网站 X 屏蔽了泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 的一些搜索，以应对网上传播泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 的色情深度伪造图片的情况。 A “deepfake” is an image, sound recording, or video created to make it appear that people in it are saying or...

Japan’s space agency says a spacecraft that landed on the moon earlier this month has regained power and is continuing its  mission . 日本宇宙航空研究开发机构表示，本月早些时候登陆月球的航天器已恢复动力并继续执行任务。 Officials from the Japan Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Monday they had successfully reestablished communication with the SLIM moon explorer. 日本研究开发机构 (JAXA) 的官员周一...

Gene treatments are being credited with permitting several children born with deafness to hear again. 基因治疗被认为使一些先天性耳聋的儿童能够再次听到声音。 Gene therapy is a medical treatment that aims to change a few of a patient’s genes to cure a genetic disease. 基因疗法是一种旨在改变患者的一些基因以治愈遗传性疾病的医疗方法。 A small study recently published in The Lancet reported im...

A large U.S. study found no evidence that taking Ozempic or Wegovy is tied to an increase in suicidal thoughts, researchers reported recently. 研究人员最近报告称，美国的一项大型研究发现，没有证据表明服用 Ozempic 或 Wegovy 与自杀念头增加有关。 Both Ozempic for type 2 diabetes and the  obesity  treatment Wegovy have the same active ingredient, semaglutide. 用于治疗 2 型糖尿病的 Ozempic 和...

The researchers from Sorbonne Paris Nord University say they were surprised by how efficient and reliable the ants were in  sniffing out  cancer. 70 ants belonging to the species known as Formica fusca were  exposed  to  urine  samples from mice with and without  cancerous  cells. 来自巴黎第十三大学（又称 “索邦-巴黎北大学”）的研究人员表示，他们对蚂蚁能如此高...

Rob   Finn? …Hello Finn? 芬恩?...你好 芬恩？ Finn  Oh sorry Rob, you caught me  napping . It's that time of day when I need to  nod off  – or in other words, fall asleep. 芬恩:  哦，对不起，罗布，你发现我在打瞌睡。 一天中的这个时候我需要打瞌睡，或者换句话说，需要入睡。 Rob  Well,  sleeping on the job  – or sleeping at work - is no bad thing – and I...

Finn  Thank you! Thank you sound effects! Thank you, Neil! Is this all for me? I feel like quite a  celebrity !                芬恩 谢谢你！ 谢谢音效！ 谢谢你，尼尔！ 这一切都是为了我吗？ 我感觉自己真是个名人啊！ Neil  Yes, a celebrity – someone famous - particularly someone in  show business , that...

The first few months of 2023 were pretty unexceptional in terms of global temperatures. That changed in July when the world began a remarkable and almost unbroken streak of daily air temperature records. 2023年头几个月的全球气温并无值得关注之处。但从7月起，这一情况发生了变化：全球平均气温几乎连续打破了往年同日的纪录，令人震惊。 More than 200 days set new daily global temperature records, according...

Cotton or plastic: which kind of bag is better for the environment? Many of us would naturally say that the cotton bag is best, but that might only be true if you use that bag thousands of times. Surprised? Keep listening and we'll explain.  棉质或塑料：哪种袋子更环保？ 我们中的许多人自然会说棉质袋子是最好的，但只有当您使用该袋子数千次时，这才可能是正确的。 惊讶吗？ 继续听，我们会解释。 ...

It is early morning on a sunny spring day in April. Heathrow Airport, London, is busy, as usual. Hundreds of people are arriving, leaving, or waiting for planes. In the departure Lounge of Terminal One, a man is sitting reading a newspaper.  这是四月一个阳光明媚的春日清晨。伦敦希思罗机场一如既往地繁忙。数百人正在抵达、离开或等待飞机。在一号航站楼的候机室里，一名男子正坐着看报纸。 He doesn't l...

At first look, the playground at the Children's Guild-Transformation Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, looks like any other. It has swings, slides, and places for children to climb and crawl.  乍一看，马里兰州巴尔的摩儿童协会转型学院的游乐场与其他游乐场没什么两样。里面有秋千、滑梯，还有供孩子们攀爬和爬行的地方。 But the playground is not just a place for fun. It is also a place where students c...

Okay, I think we should roll out of the window if we're gonna try and escape. Let's, let's get out of this apartment or this house completely. 好吧，我想如果我们想逃跑的话就应该滚出窗外。让我们，让我们彻底离开这个公寓或者这个房子。 So, I'm going to choose that as an option.  The window is shut okay. Why did it give me that as an option when the window is shut?  Anyway, Let...

About seven years ago, I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house. I have a pretty large family and I had never actually seen this particular cousin before. I had only ever spoken to him on the phone. 大约七年前，我收到邀请参加我表弟家的晚宴。我有一个相当大的家庭，我以前从未真正见过这个表弟。我只和他通过电话。 I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over, but...

The American space agency NASA is preparing to test a new supersonic airplane that could help establish a new generation of superfast aircraft.  美国宇航局美国宇航局正准备测试一种新型超音速飞机，这可能有助于建立新一代超高速飞机。  The new aircraft is called X-59, and it was built in partnership with American defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The experimental plane is part of a NASA pro...

Just outside of Cardiff,  archaeologists  have  unearthed  a  cemetery  they think is about 1,500 years old. 就在卡迪夫城外，考古学家们发现了一座墓地，他们认为这座墓地大约有1500年的历史。 The  graves  contain well-preserved skeletons, giving an insight into a medieval community.  Worn  teeth on some of the bodies, for example, suggest people ...

Of all the creatures on the planet, the narwhal is one of the strangest looking. It's a whale which has a large protruding tusk coming out of its head; that's how it got its nickname, the unicorn of the sea. They live in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Canada, Russia and East Greenland. However, experts say some populations of narwhal could be extinct by 2025, and it's all because of noise pollu...

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of very small plastic known as nanoplastics, a recent study says.  最近的一项研究表明，每升瓶装水中平均含有近 25 万个看不见的非常小的塑料，即纳米塑料。  Researchers found the nanoplastics with a microscope using dual lasers.  研究人员用双激光显微镜发现了纳米塑料。  Scientists long figured there wer...

Guinness World Records said on Tuesday that it has suspended and was re-examining its “world’s oldest dog” record. The publishing company had given the record to a Portuguese dog named Bobi, which died in October of last year.  吉尼斯世界纪录周二表示，已暂停并正在重新审查其“世界上最古老的狗”记录。出版公司将这张唱片交给了一只名叫波比的葡萄牙狗，这只狗于去年十月去世。  The move follows cri...

Today we talk about the process of learning to do something.  今天我们谈论学习做某事的过程。  For example, if you want to play a musical instrument, you need to learn how. You must take small steps. You learn how to hold or sit at the instrument. You learn how to read notes and how to play basic chords. Then you progress to short, easy songs.  例如，如果你想演奏一种乐器，你需要学习...

An ancient species of great  ape  likely disappeared hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, scientists recently reported. 科学家最近报告说，一种古老的类人猿物种可能在数十万年前就消失了，因为气候变化使它们在旱季无法获得最喜爱的水果。 The species is known as Gigantopithecus blacki. It once lived in southern Chi...

The scientists carried out years of genetic research to conclude there are seven species of what are called Hylomys, a furry subgroup of hedgehogs.  科学家们进行了多年的基因研究，得出了这一结论：共有七个刺猬物种被称为 “毛猬属”，“毛猬属” 是一种毛茸茸的刺猬的亚组。  Work was carried out on Borneo in Malaysia, and in museum collections where specimens were reassessed.  开展这项研究的地...