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Having thousands of photos, songs and films available at our fingertips would have seemed amazing just a few decades ago, but how long will these files last for and be available? Could the  digitalisation  of cultural  artefacts  now be putting a time limit on our memories? 就在几十年前，拥有数千张照片、歌曲和电影触手可及似乎令人惊叹，但这些文件能持续多久并可用？ 文物...

Peru's Andes Mountains might be home to the oldest person ever to have lived — at the age of 124. 秘鲁的安第斯山脉可能是有史以来最长寿的人的家乡——享年 124 岁。 The South American country’s government has claimed that a man named Marcelino Abad Tolentino from the central area of Huánuco was born in 1900. If the claim is true, he would be the oldest, independently  verified  human on earth...

American music star Beyoncé released her new album Cowboy Carter last week. The singer said the country music record was born of an earlier experience in which she “did not feel welcomed” by the country music industry.  美国音乐明星碧昂斯上周发行了她的新专辑《Cowboy Carter》。 这位歌手表示，乡村音乐唱片的诞生源于她早期的经历，当时她“没有感受到乡村音乐界的欢迎”。 Country music stars Linda Mart...

They say burning coal, oil and natural gas results in more carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. Those two are called “greenhouse gases” because they are said to “trap heat.” 他们说，燃烧煤炭、石油和天然气会导致大气中产生更多的二氧化碳和甲烷。 这两种气体被称为“温室气体”，因为据说它们会“滞留热量”。 “The  trajectory  will not change until  concentrations  of gre...

The European Union’s climate agency, Copernicus, says the world’s temperature averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius in March. 欧盟气候机构哥白尼表示，3 月份全球平均气温为 14.14 摄氏度。 The latest monthly temperature means that Copernicus has reported a record high temperature for 10 months  in a row . 最新的月度气温意味着哥白尼连续10个月报告高温纪录。 Copernicus added that the month was 1.68 degree...

As he drives slowly across snow, Nils Mathis Sara drops food on the ground for hundreds of his reindeer to eat. His animals live in Finnmark, the northernmost point of Norway. 当尼尔斯·马西斯·萨拉（Nils Mathis Sara）缓慢地驶过雪地时，他将食物撒在地上，供他的数百只驯鹿吃。 他的动物生活在挪威最北端的芬马克郡。 But Sara wishes he did not have to feed them. 但萨拉希望他不必喂它们。 "Thi...

Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School said, “If you’re really worried about people using your app for mental health services, you want a disclaimer that’s more direct…” He suggested, “This is just for fun.” 哈佛法学院的格伦·科恩说：“如果你真的担心人们使用你的应用程序提供心理健康服务，你需要一个更直接的免责声明……”他建议说，“这只是为了好玩。” Still, chatbots are already playing a role due to an ongoing...

The mental health  chatbot  Earkick greets users with a friendly-looking panda that could fit easily in a children’s program. 心理健康聊天机器人 Earkick 用一只看起来很友好的熊猫来迎接用户，它很适合儿童节目。 When users talk about  anxiety , the panda gives the kind of comforting statements that a trained mental health professional, called a therapist, would say. Then it might sugges...

West Africa was hit with a severe drought following a humid heat wave that drove temperatures to record levels in February.  西非遭受了严重的干旱，此前潮湿的热浪使2月份的气温达到了创纪录的水平。  Scientists from the World Weather Attribution group say the unusually hot weather was made ten times more likely because of the greenhouse gases humanity has been pumping into the atmosphere.&nb...

Laughter is a universal language for humans to connect with each other and form social bonds. Even as babies, we giggle when our parents pull funny faces, and then gradually learn to make others laugh as we grow up. But, is it a uniquely human experience? Scientists have observed behaviours in animals that suggest that your pets might be secret jokesters…  笑声是人类相互联系并形成社会纽...

Prisoners in the U.S. state of New York have taken legal action against the state corrections department. They started the measure over the state’s decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse. 纽约州的囚犯已经对该州矫正部门采取了法律行动。他们开始了这一措施，原因是州政府决定在下周的日全食期间封锁监狱。 The case was filed last week in a federal court in upstate New York....

Today we are at the Newseum in Washington D.C. – where the history of free expression is explained and defended.  今天，我们来到华盛顿特区的新闻博物馆——言论自由的历史在这里得到解释和捍卫。  The first printing presses arrived in the United States in the mid-1600s, marking an important step in the history of America’s free press.  第一台印刷机于 1600 年代中期抵达美国，标志着美国新闻自...

An ongoing bird flu outbreak has killed tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in several parts of the world.  持续爆发的禽流感已导致世界多个地区数以万计的海豹和海狮死亡。  Scientists said the virus’ spread also has caused economic losses at poultry farms and is harming wild birds.  科学家表示，病毒的传播还给家禽养殖场造成了经济损失，并正在伤害野生鸟类。  A worldwide bird flu...

Bamboo farming is on the rise in Uganda. The strong and fast-growing crop is seen by the East African government as having real growth possibility.  乌干达的竹子种植业正在兴起。 东非政府认为这种强劲且快速生长的作物具有真正的增长潜力。  Along a 3-kilometer stretch of the river Rwizi, environment protection officers recently planted new bamboo seedlings and cleared room for last year's sur...

Humans have been writing by hand for thousands of years.  人类用手书写已有数千年历史。  Since ancient times, people have used every tool imaginable to share information, do business, and keep records.  自古以来，人们就使用一切可以想象到的工具来共享信息、开展业务和保存记录。  But as computers took over the job and the type-written word became more common, something was lost in t...

Scientists say new research confirms results of an earlier study suggesting the crash of a spacecraft into an asteroid changed the shape of the targeted object.  科学家表示，新的研究证实了早期研究的结果，即航天器撞击小行星改变了目标物体的形状。  The latest research follows another recent study examining the effects of the asteroid strike. NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroi...

20 quadrillion sounds like a lot of ants, and it is. To give you an idea, that's two and a half million ants for every human on Earth.  20千万亿听起来像是很多只蚂蚁，事实也确实如此。这就相当于地球上每一个人对应250万只蚂蚁。  T o count them at one a second would take 634 million years. So, no one's tried that.  以每秒数一只蚂蚁的速度，要6.34亿年才能数完。所以，没有人尝试过。 But the...

Squirming in their seat, glancing around the room and never looking you in the eye. We think we know when someone is lying to us, but do we really?  在座位上蠕动，环视房间，却从不看你的眼睛。 我们认为我们知道有人在对我们撒谎，但我们真的知道吗？  A study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review showed that people's ability to tell if someone is lying to them is little bet...

Historic covered bridges in the United States are under threat by the use of the modern technology GPS.  美国历史悠久的廊桥正受到现代 GPS 技术的使用的威胁。  GPS is short for Global Positioning System. The satellite system tells people who use map applications what roads to use to go from one place to another.  GPS 是全球定位系统的缩写。 卫星系统告诉使用地图应用程序的人们从一个地方...

South Korean researchers have combined cow muscle cells with rice grains. They say the new rice is an important step towards a sustainable, less costly source of protein. The researchers suggested it could replace the meat of farmed cattle, or beef.  韩国研究人员将牛肌肉细胞与米粒结合起来。 他们表示，新大米是迈向可持续、成本更低的蛋白质来源的重要一步。 研究人员建议它可以替代养殖牛的肉或牛肉。...

Only one in five of those who apply to the University of Cambridge is offered a place. Currently there is an admissions quota of at least 69% of places for state-educated pupils. Now, Cambridge is looking at using a more sophisticated set of measures, including whether an applicant has received free school meals and looking at individual exam results in the context of where their school is. ...

Heartbreak has inspired thousands of songs, books and films, and, however much we try to avoid it, is something we are all likely to experience at some point in our lives. But what exactly is heartbreak, and how does it affect us?  心碎激发了数以千计的歌曲、书籍和电影的灵感，无论我们如何努力避免它，我们都可能在生命中的某个时刻经历过。 但心碎到底是什么？它对我们有何影响？  Heartbreak ofte...

The number of marriages in South Korea rose in 2023 for the first time in more than ten years.  2023年，韩国结婚人数十多年来首次上升。  The increase came after the pandemic which forced some couples to delay marriage plans. But the data did not point to a continued increase in the aging country.  这一增长是在大流行迫使一些夫妇推迟结婚计划之后发生的。 但数据并未表明老龄化国家持续增加...

March 20 is the United Nations' International Day of Happiness.  3月20日是联合国国际幸福日。  For many years, northern European countries, especially Finland, have been named among the happiest countries on Earth. The United States has never made it into the top 10.  多年来，北欧国家，尤其是芬兰，一直被评为地球上最幸福的国家之一。美国从未进入过前十名。  But California state law...

A recently released report from European scientists says there are 16,000 chemicals in plastic materials around the world.  欧洲科学家最近发布的一份报告称，全球塑料材料中含有 16,000 种化学物质。  The report said not enough is known about the safety of all those chemicals. They estimate that about 25 percent of these chemicals are possibly harmful to human health or the environment. ...