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When seismic sensors around the planet picked up the unusual signal emanating from Greenland, a group of geologists set out to solve the mystery of what was causing it.  当全球各地的地震感应器接收到格陵兰岛发出的 “地震” 信号后，一群地质学家开始着手解开有关该情况形成原因的谜团。  They eventually worked out that this vibration, that lasted an unprecedented nine days, came from a massive la...

If you could work from any location in the world, where would you go? Picture filling in a spreadsheet on a sandy Caribbean island, or maybe a little rooftop cafe in Rome where you can sip an espresso while editing a social media video. More and more countries are offering digital nomad visas and therefore the chance to work remotely, from wherever you'd like to.  如果您可以在世界任...

Meta’s Instagram service recently introduced some built-in tools designed to protect young users. The changes also give parents more control over their children’s accounts to improve safety and limit the amount of time spent on the social networking app.  Meta 的 Instagram 服务最近推出了一些旨在保护年轻用户的内置工具。这些变化还使父母能够更好地控制孩子的帐户，以提高安全性并限制在社交网络应用...

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.  诺贝尔和平奖被授予日本飞段协（Nihon Hidankyo），这是一个由美国广岛和长崎原子弹爆炸幸存者组成的日本组织，因其反对核武器的积极行动而被授予。  The Nobel committee said it "wishes to honor all survivor...

South Korean writer Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee said her work “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”  韩国作家韩康周四荣获 2024 年诺贝尔文学奖。瑞典学院诺贝尔委员会表示，她的作品“直面历史创伤，暴露了人类生命的脆弱”。  Born in 1970, Han Kang is the first South Korean to win th...

A series of powerful hurricanes have affected millions of people in the United States in recent weeks.  最近几周，一系列强大的飓风影响了美国数百万人。  Some people are wondering if scientists could control extreme weather events. However, experts say hurricanes are far too powerful for humans to control.  有些人想知道科学家是否可以控制极端天气事件。然而，专家表示，飓风的威力太强大，...

Cunningham, who was not involved in the new study, said it is not clear why rates of severe obesity are going up. Cunningham also said it is not clear why severe obesity rates were higher among women.  坎宁安没有参与这项新研究，他表示目前尚不清楚严重肥胖率上升的原因。坎宁安还表示，目前尚不清楚为什么女性严重肥胖率更高。  Reasons could include the effects of hormones, the effects of childb...

Body weight continues to be a big public health issue in the United States. New government research suggests that the condition of having far too much fat stored in the body – severe obesity – has increased greatly over the past ten years.  体重仍然是美国的一个重大公共卫生问题。新的政府研究表明，体内储存过多脂肪的情况——严重肥胖——在过去十年中大大增加。  The U.S. obesity rate is about 40 p...

Edgar Tapia works on the Homeless Outreach Team of San Francisco, California. He goes to places where people are living in the streets and tells them there is space for them in city shelters. He recently went into one San Francisco neighborhood on that mission.  埃德加·塔皮亚 (Edgar Tapia) 在加利福尼亚州旧金山无家可归者外展团队工作。他前往人们流落街头的地方，告诉他们城市避难所里有空间。...

Benmou Suzuki is a religious worker at a 420-year-old temple that is not in very good condition.  铃木本谋 (Benmou Suzuki) 是一座拥有 420 年历史、状况不佳的寺庙的宗教工作者。  It is deep in the forest near a small Japanese mountain village. It does not look like a valuable property.  它位于日本小山村附近的森林深处。它看起来不像是有价值的财产。  Yet two men recently as...

Spanish scientist Pilar Bosch has found a way to use bacteria to repair 18th-century paintings.  西班牙科学家皮拉尔·博斯 (Pilar Bosch) 找到了一种利用细菌修复 18 世纪绘画的方法。  Bosch, a microbiologist, tells Reuters she got the idea for the method while considering possibilities for a paper toward her doctoral degree. During this process, she discovered someone else’s paper that sugges...

"A classic example is in Scandinavia, where the land is still rising in response to the melting of thick ice sheets that covered the  region  during the last Ice Age. This process continues today, affecting coastlines and landscapes, thousands of years after the ice retreated," Dai said. “一个典型的例子是斯堪的纳维亚半岛，由于上一个冰河时期覆盖该地区的厚冰盖融化，该地区的土地仍...

Fields of tall corn plants are a common thing to see in the Midwest United States in late summer. They are as much a part of rural America as big red  barns  and cows. 夏末，在美国中西部地区，高大的玉米田很常见。 它们就像红色的大谷仓和奶牛一样，是美国乡村的一部分。 But soon, tall corn plants might become shorter, replaced by plants only half as tall. 但很快，高大的玉米植株可能会变得更矮...

Mount Everest, standing 8.85 kilometers above sea level, is Earth's tallest mountain. 珠穆朗玛峰海拔8.85公里，是地球上最高的山峰。 And Mount Everest is still growing. 珠穆朗玛峰仍在增长。 Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing on an upward movement that began at their birth around 50 million years ago. The mountains are a product of a collision between Eurasia and the Indian su...

The Argentine town of Hilario Ascasubi near the country’s Atlantic coast has a problem not many places have ever had.  阿根廷大西洋海岸附近的希拉里奥·阿斯卡苏比镇面临着许多地方都没有遇到过的问题。  It has too many parrots.  它的鹦鹉太多了。  Biologists say thousands of the green-yellow-and-red birds have invaded the town. These experts say deforestation has driven the...

Britain's miles of coastline are home to globally important seabird colonies, with more than 20 different species breeding on cliff tops or foraging out at sea. But many populations are in trouble, hit by multiple pressures from climate change to overfishing.  在英国数千英里的海岸线上分布着许多在世界范围内都有着显著意义的海鸟群落，这里有超过 20 种海鸟在悬崖上筑巢繁衍或在海中觅食。但由于气候变...

A can of soft drink and two large eggs may have a similar number of calories, but the eggs will provide us with protein, vitamins and other nutrients, and satisfy our hunger, while a fizzy drink provides little more than tooth decay and calories. The important concept here is nutrient density. This is the number of nutrients we take in for each calorie consumed. No one would suggest replacing swee...

They found that the sources of water and hydroxyl are believed to be contained in minerals on or just below the moon’s surface.  他们发现水和羟基的来源被认为包含在月球表面或正下方的矿物质中。  Scientists  involved in the research recently reported their results in a study published in the Planetary Science Journal.  参与这项研究的科学家最近在《行星科学杂志》上发表的一项研究中报...

A new study suggests sources of water on the moon are more widespread than previously thought.  一项新的研究表明，月球上的水源比之前想象的更为广泛。  The study was based on new examinations of data collected by India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. It launched in October 2008 and collected data while orbiting the moon for about a year.  这项研究基于对印度月船一号航天器收集的数据的新检查...

The Japanese video game company Nintendo is opening a museum that will teach visitors about its history.  日本视频游戏公司任天堂正在开设一家博物馆，向游客介绍其历史。  At the museum, fans of Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and the Game Boy and Switch devices can learn more about one of the world's most famous game makers.  在博物馆，《超级马里奥》、《塞尔达传说》以及...

In South Africa, a former passenger train now serves as a traveling medical center to provide health services to people in need.  在南非，一列以前的旅客列车现在充当旅行医疗中心，为有需要的人提供医疗服务。  The train is known as Phelophepa. In the Sesotho language, this means “good, clean, health.” It travels across South Africa to provide medical care to a mix of patients for whom usual...

Layers  of rock can be thought of as pages of a history book – with each layer containing details of the Earth's condition in the distant past. But the  critical period  leading up to Snowball Earth was thought to be missing because the rock layers were  eroded  in the big freeze. 不同的岩石层可以被认为是一本历史书的不同页，每一层都包含了在遥远的过去地球状况的细节。但...

Imagine sitting down for dinner in ancient Babylon. What would be on the menu? Thanks to clay tablets discovered over a century ago, we're starting to find out. These tablets, written around 4,000 years ago, were originally thought to be about medicine. But in the 1980s, scholars realised that these texts were actually  recipes . "Out of hundreds of thousands of  cuneiform  document...

Another device from the Massachusetts company Epicore Biosystems uses sweat to find out if a worker is overheating. 马萨诸塞州 Epicore Biosystems 公司的另一款设备利用汗水来判断工人是否过热。  Experts say the effectiveness of some devices remains unproven although research has shown that some successfully predict body temperature. A 2022 study said age, sex, and the amount of water in the...

On a hot summer day, workers recently worked to remove asbestos and hazardous waste at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It is a former nuclear center that the government wants to tear down.  在炎热的夏日，工人们最近在田纳西州橡树岭国家实验室清除石棉和危险废物。这是政府想要拆除的前核中心。  The men wore full-body protective clothing and used respirators to clean the air they br...