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African elephants call each other by and answer to individual names, a new study finds. Such communication is rare in the animal world. 一项新的研究发现，非洲象会用名字互相呼唤，并对名字作出回应。这种交流在动物界非常罕见。 African elephants are among the largest animals that live on land. 非洲象是陆地上最大的动物之一。 The names are one part of the low sounds, or rumbles, elephants make. They can...

A team of international researchers says that climate change made recent flooding in southern Brazil twice as likely to happen. 一个国际研究团队表示，气候变化使巴西南部最近发生的洪水发生的可能性增加了一倍。 It also said that the El Niño Pacific Ocean current made the rains in Brazil more severe. 他们还表示，厄尔尼诺太平洋洋流使巴西的降雨更加严重。 Last month, flooding killed more than 170 people a...

Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons are now offering members of their  loyalty schemes  bonus points if they hit  spending targets . 特易购（Tesco）、桑斯伯里（Sainsbury's）、阿斯达（Asda）和莫里斯（Morrisons）目前为其顾客忠诚计划的会员提供奖励积分，只要会员达到消费目标即可。 The challenges vary between supermarkets, but some involve shopping more frequently, while others are abo...

Devastating floods are becoming more and more common around the world. The warming climate is leading to heavier rainfall, but could the way that cities are growing be making things worse? Could we design cities in a different way to reduce the risk of flooding? 毁灭性的洪水在世界各地变得越来越普遍。 气候变暖导致降雨量增加，但城市的发展方式是否会让情况变得更糟？ 我们能否以不同的方式设计城市来降低...

The 2024 Olympic Games open in Paris late next month and experts say especially hot summer weather is likely to return. Temperatures set record highs in Europe last summer and France’s national weather agency says it expects warmer than normal conditions this year. 2024年奥运会将于下个月末在巴黎开幕，专家们表示，炎热的夏季天气可能会再次到来。去年夏天欧洲的气温创下了历史新高，法国国家气象局表示，今...

Once a year, millions of Muslims from all over the world travel to Saudi Arabia, to complete an important religious duty called Hajj. The travelers gather in the city of Mecca, carrying out holy acts over several days. 每年一次，数百万来自世界各地的穆斯林前往沙特阿拉伯，完成一个重要的宗教义务，称为朝觐。朝圣者聚集在麦加市，进行数天的神圣仪式。 Hajj is one of the five pillars, or bases, of Islamic...

Hafsa Omer wears the red, white, and green flag of Somaliland while playing basketball. 哈芙萨·奥马在打篮球时穿着索马里兰的红白绿三色旗。 The 21-year-old is the captain of the team. Her dream is to one day play for her nation. But there is a problem: Somaliland is not a recognized country. 这位21岁的女孩是球队的队长。她的梦想是有一天能为她的国家效力。但有一个问题：索马里兰并不是一个被承认的国家。...

The East African country of Uganda has begun a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign. 东非国家乌干达已开始全国范围的黄热病疫苗接种活动。 The aim is for the country to protect its population against the viral disease. Yellow fever is spread by insects called mosquitoes. 该国的目标是保护其人口免受这种病毒性疾病的侵害。黄热病通过一种叫蚊子的昆虫传播。 Dr. Michael Baganizi is an official in cha...

Agriculture companies are using new methods to change the genes of plants to produce more productive crops. 农业公司正在使用新方法改变植物的基因，以生产出更高产的作物。 The process of gene-editing is gaining attention from people interested in agriculture. It makes changes to the existing genes of a plant, such as wheat. That is different from genetic modification, which produces what are known as...

Reduced treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without hurting results, doctors reported recently at the world’s largest cancer conference. 减少三种癌症的治疗可以让患者的生活更轻松，而不影响治疗效果，医生们最近在世界上最大的癌症会议上报告。 The findings are part of a long-term move toward studying whether doing less surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation can help patien...

The huge  solar storm  that hit Earth this month was described as the biggest in two decades. The Sun  blasted  intense  radiation , billions of tonnes of  matter  and strong  magnetic fields  at our planet.  本月袭击地球的大型太阳风暴堪称近二十年来最大的一次。太阳向地球发射出强烈的辐射，释放出数十亿吨的物质和强磁场。 The coloured lights in the sky...

"Take your  brolly , it's  chucking it down !" The UK is famous for its rainy weather, and Brits LOVE to complain about it – particularly when the arrival of spring teases us with warmth and light, but with them come the 'April  showers ', lovingly shared by Britain, Ireland and some of coastal northern Europe. What exactly are they, and why do they insist on coming every year? “拿...

Boeing launched astronauts into space with its delayed Starliner spacecraft for the first time Wednesday.  波音公司于周三首次使用其延迟的星际线飞船将宇航员送入太空。 The launch marked the company’s entry into competition with SpaceX to provide service for the American space agency NASA.  此次发射标志着该公司进入与SpaceX竞争，为美国航天局NASA提供服务。 NASA test pilots Butch Wilmore and S...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft visited a little asteroid called Dinkinesh last November. The visit, scientists say, unlocks a surprisingly interesting history of the asteroid along with its companion, Selam. NASA的露西号航天器去年十一月拜访了一个名为Dinkinesh的小行星。科学家们表示，这次拜访揭示了该小行星及其伴侣Selam的一个令人惊讶的有趣历史。 Asteroids are ancient objects from the beginning of the solar s...

Robert: Well, there is another opportunity that might be more appealing…  Robert: 嗯，还有一个可能更吸引人的机会…… Jessica: Ookaay, I’m listening… Jessica: 好吧，我在听…… Robert: So that’s the classic hedge fund. High risk, high reward. But I wonder if you’d be interested in a newer product… a different kind of hedge fund. More distributed risk. Longer play.  Robert: 那就是经典的对冲基金...

Michael: The news isn’t great I’m afraid. I know all of us had very high expectations for the launch, but we’re going to have to come to grips with the situation.  Michael: 恐怕消息不太好。我知道我们大家对这次发布都抱有很高的期望，但我们需要面对现实。 Rachel: Sorry, but I don’t quite see what you mean. What are you getting at?  Rachel: 对不起，但我不太明白你的意思。你在说什么？ Michael:...

The fox was about the size of a  German   shepherd  dog and lived across much of South America, only going  extinct  a few hundred years ago. A near-complete skeleton of the animal was found in a human grave  dating   back  to 1,500 years ago. 这种狐狸和德国牧羊犬差不多大，曾生活在南美洲的大部分地区，直到几百年前才灭绝。考古人员在一座距今 1500 年前的人类坟墓...

Imagine a future where we can  tuck into  meat, but no animals have been sacrificed in the process. 16% of the UK population enjoy a  meat-free diet , according to statistics website Finder.com. It seems there is an appeal in  lab-grown  meat as an alternative to  traditional  meat  consumption . But, despite years of anticipation, this futuristic food is st...

Most recent cars have an electronic key that lets the owner get into and start the car.  最近的汽车都配有电子钥匙，可以让车主进入并启动汽车。  The electronic key is called a “fob” to those who know about the technology. The fob sends a short-range signal to the car. As the owner gets close, the fob unlocks the door.  对于了解该技术的人来说，电子钥匙被称为“遥控钥匙”。 遥控钥匙向汽车...

They are six-legged, hairy home invaders that will not die, no matter how hard you try.  它们是六足、毛茸茸的家庭入侵者，无论你多么努力，它们都不会死。  Cockroaches are experts at surviving indoors. But they did not start out that way.  蟑螂是室内生存的专家。 但他们一开始并不是这样的。  A recent study uses genetics to examine cockroaches’ spread across the w...

Researchers in Australia recently announced the launch of a new device that, they say, absorbs water from air to produce drinkable water. 澳大利亚的研究人员最近宣布推出一种新设备，他们称该设备可以从空气中吸收水来生产饮用水。  Researchers at the University of Newcastle call the device the Hydro Harvester. They said it can produce up to 1,000 liters of drinkable water a day, adding that it coul...

The baobab tree is a special thing to see. During the dry season, its leafless branches look like roots coming from a thick trunk. It appears as if someone took a tree from the ground, flipped it on its head and put it back into the earth.  猴面包树是一处特别值得一看的东西。 在旱季，它光秃秃的树枝看起来就像从粗大的树干上长出来的根。 看起来就像有人从地上取下一棵树，将其翻转，然后将其放回土中。...

Huge teeth like daggers and positively demonic, that's how one researcher describes the giant sea lizard that lived alongside dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, just before they went extinct.  长有匕首大小的巨大牙齿，犹如恶魔。这是一位研究人员对这种巨型海蜥蜴的描述，大约 6600 万年前，就在恐龙灭绝之前，这种海蜥蜴曾与恐龙生活在一起。 The creature was some eight metres long with powerful jaws...

150 minutes of exercise a week: that's how much we should all be doing. Does this mean that gyms are the best ways to guarantee our health? Maybe, but they are not without their own health risks.  每周锻炼 150 分钟：这是我们都应该做的量。 这是否意味着健身房是保证我们健康的最佳方式？ 也许吧，但它们并非没有健康风险。  Recent studies have suggested that some gym-goers' hygiene standards lea...

The American artificial intelligence company OpenAI has removed one of its ChatGPT voices. The move came after actor Scarlett Johansson said the voice sounded “eerily similar” to her voice in the movie Her.  美国人工智能公司 OpenAI 已删除其 ChatGPT 语音之一。 此举是在演员斯嘉丽约翰逊表示这个声音听起来与她在电影《她》中的声音“出奇地相似”之后做出的。  In a post Monday on the social media s...