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Would you be the same person if you'd grown up in different surroundings? How might you be different if you'd grown up in an urban versus a rural environment, or in a different country altogether? This is the age-old, nature-nurture debate that has had people pondering for many years. Is your personality written in your genes or shaped by your experience? Most experts agree that it is a combinatio...

The Atlantic salmon and the goonch catfish from Nepal are some of the 30 flagship fish species which had been prioritised for global conservation by the UN. 大西洋鲑和尼泊尔巨魾均属于被联合国列为全球优先保护对象的 30 种旗舰鱼类。 Population data of more than 15,000 species of freshwater migratory fish, which make up half of all fish species, were assessed by a team of international scientists to i...

Doodle dogs , bred from a  poodle   crossed  with a different  breed , have grown in popularity in recent years, but the Royal Veterinary College says they don't always behave as expected, particularly around training, anxiety and  aggression . “杂交贵宾犬”，也就是贵宾犬和其它犬种的杂交后代，近年来大受青睐。但皇家兽医学院表示，这类混种犬的行为表现并不总能如人所愿，尤其是在...

This looks like a spaceship and just like a spaceship, this machine is helping scientists go where they've never gone before, 这看起来像一艘宇宙飞船，正如宇宙飞船一样，这台机器正在帮助科学家前往他们从未涉足的领域， in the quest to decipher what science has never been able to explain, the origins of the universe. 致力于破解科学至今无法解释的谜题——宇宙的起源。 They can confirm the existence of the s...

Internationally celebrated Cambodian American composer Chinary Ung has been awarded one of the highest honors in the U.S., a lifetime membership at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 享誉国际的柬埔寨裔美国作曲家洪靖年荣获美国最高荣誉之一，成为美国艺术文学院终身会员。 Ung will be officially inducted in May. The 77-year-old composer was chosen based on his artistic merit in music composition....

The concept continues to blow my mind. It really will enable astronauts to explore. 这个概念仍然让我惊叹不已。它真的能让宇航员进行探索。 Dr. Pascal Lee has literally gone to the ends of the earth to test equipment for NASA. 李天龙确实曾到地球的尽头为美国宇航局测试设备。 We want astronauts to go to Mars, be effective explorers, to pick up rocks, to examine fossils potentially, to look for life. All...

Britain is looking for new partners and it is eyeing Africa. 英国正在寻找新的合作伙伴，并将目光投向了非洲。 With 1.2 billion people and eight of the world's 15 fastest-growing economies, Africa offers world-beating returns on investment, according to a report from the Overseas Development Institute. 海外发展研究所的一份报告显示，非洲拥有12亿人口，全球15个增长最快的经济体中非洲占了8个，投资回报率全...

Its length isn't what makes the path special, says Natural England's Neil Constable, who led the project. For him, the important thing is it means you can now reach the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and follow the sea for as long as you like. 这条步道的长度并非它最特别的地方，这是该项目负责人、英格兰自然署官员尼尔·康斯特布尔的看法。对他而言，最重要的一点是这条步道的建成意味着现在...

Animals build their homes to achieve different living goals. Bees build hives to store and protect food, spiders spin webs to catch prey and beavers build dams to create pools. But, as you walk around a town or stroll along a countryside pathway, you may notice some unique homes up on the treetops – nests. 动物建造家园是为了实现不同的生活目标。 蜜蜂建造蜂巢来储存和保护食物，蜘蛛结网来捕捉猎物，海...

Streaming video platforms have given filmmakers massive budgets and allowed them to make creative and artistic films and series free of the restrictions of cinema or broadcast time slots. But, maybe, just maybe, not everyone wants a three-hour long work of creative genius. Minute-long micro-dramas are taking the entertainment market by storm. 流媒体视频平台为电影制片人提供了大量预算，使他们能够不...

Years ago discrimination against people with disabilities often started right at birth. 多年前，对残疾人的歧视往往始于出生。 When I was born, a doctor came in to my mom and explained to her my diagnosis in this way, your son is a midget like you see in the circus. 当我出生时，一位医生走进来对我妈妈这样解释我的诊断结果：你的儿子就像你在马戏团里看到的那种侏儒。 So in that one sentence, that he said...

Two young children, a boy and a girl, hold a sign that reads "BRING OUR MOM BACK". 一个男孩和一个女孩举着一块牌子，上面写着“BRING OUR MOM BACK”。 This painting called "Simple Immigration" is the work of an 18-year-old Dominick Cocozza, and has already made its way to the US capitol in Washington D.C. 这幅名为《简单移民》的画作出自18岁的Dominick Cocozza之手，现已在美国华盛顿特区的国会大厦成功展出。...

The United States and China recently dispatched rovers to Mars, while the United Arab Emirates sent an orbiter to the red planet, where it is hoped humans one day will tread. 美国和中国最近向火星发射了探测器，同时阿联酋航空公司也向这颗红色星球发射了一颗人造卫星，希望有一天人类会踏上这片土地。 For man and machine alike, experts say landing on Mars is the hardest part of the trip. 专家表示，对于人和...

First there was the keyboard, then the touch screen. 首先是键盘，然后是触屏。 Some tech companies say a wearable pair of glasses could be the next leap in technology, even if it didn't work out for google glass. 一些科技公司表示，即使谷歌眼镜未能成功，可穿戴眼镜仍可能是科技领域的下一次重大飞跃。 In the future we won't be only limited to our smartphones, when it comes to understanding the world aro...

The Work to Ride program basically started with an idea that I had about using horses and youth combining those two to make a difference in the lives of children. “骑马计划”项目基本上源于我一个想法，即把马匹和青少年结合起来，从而改变孩子们的生活。 Our facility, Chamonix Equestrian Center, is located in Philadelphia. And it is bordered on two of the most crime-ridden neighborhoods here in Philadelp...

It's all about changing the narrative of black history, building leaders through the story of my ancestors. 这一切都是为了改变黑人历史的叙事，通过讲述我祖先的故事来培养领导者。 We produce educational toys where children can learn black history in a very fun and creative way. 我们生产教育玩具，让孩子们能够以一种非常有趣和富有创意的方式学习黑人历史。 The focus really is to kind of see black history...

This is a slime mold. Cat Chang is an urban designer. But in her spare time, she likes to examine other life-forms. 这是一种黏菌。凯特·张是一名城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命。 Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian. Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard. 从我还是个小女孩起，我就对自然界感兴趣。我们是夏威...

My name is Dwayne Hendrickson and I'm from Minot, North Dakota, about 50 miles out of Keif. 我叫德韦恩·亨德里克森，来自北达科他州米诺特市，距离基夫约50英里。 But my grandparents lived on a farm near Kief prior to 1968 and a small-town community that everybody knew everybody and everybody helped everybody. 但在1968年之前，我的祖父母住在基夫附近的农场里，那是一个小镇社区，每个人都认识彼此，每个人都...

The researchers discovered that the European hedgehog can hear up to 85kHz, a frequency that's considered ultrasonic, far higher than humans who stop hearing past 20kHz. 研究人员发现，西欧刺猬能听到达到 85 千赫的声音，这已属于超声波频段，远高于人类 20 千赫的听觉上限。 The team now wants to develop sound repellents to be used in cars or lawnmowers that could emit noise at a frequency to scare off h...

Lots of places sell or advertise collagen supplements, but what are the benefits of taking them on a daily basis? A new scientific review by a team from Anglia Ruskin University, published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum, has looked into exactly this, and here's what it found.   很多地方都销售或宣传胶原蛋白补充剂，但每天服用胶原蛋白究竟有哪些益处？安格利亚鲁斯金大学的一个团队在《...

We all know the feeling. You have a big, difficult task to complete, but your phone is on the desk next to you, teasing you with endless distraction opportunities. What's happening on social media? What's going on in the news? Who's messaging me? This constant bombardment of information through our screens, coupled with a tendency to outsource even basic tasks to technology, might be making us unh...

Mornings for Khris Teri of Halo Doughnut means it's time to hand make sweet treats, with flavors such as lemon pop, cinnamon affair along with burnt salty. Everything is made from scratch. 对于光环甜甜圈店的克里斯·特里（Khris Teri）来说，早晨是手工制作美味甜点的时间，有柠檬汽水味、肉桂味以及焦盐等口味。所有产品都是从头开始制作的。 So the financial downturn helped me revisit my passion....

Nigeria is one of the top 10 most dangerous countries in the world for women. 尼日利亚是全球对女性而言最危险的10个国家之一。 The shortage of laws protecting women is compounded by poor law enforcement and traditions that force women to keep quiet about gender violence. 保护妇女的法律本就匮乏，再加上执法不力以及迫使女性对性别暴力保持沉默的传统观念，情况更是雪上加霜。 Tired of physical abuse, some N...

Though it appears to have marched straight out of a superhero movie, the Guardian Exoskeleton is ready for work in the real world. 虽然它看起来像是直接从超级英雄电影中走出来的，但“守护者”外骨骼设备已准备好在现实世界中投入使用。 It's a wearable robot that amplifies its user's strength. 这是一款可穿戴机器人，可以增强用户的力量。 Anybody who's wearing the Guardian Exo can lift up to 200 pounds. 任何...

Farmers in Turkana Kenya face an existential crisis. 肯尼亚图尔卡纳的农民面临着生存危机。 For much of the past year out-of-control swarms of locusts have rampaged through this impoverished region, 过去一年的大部分时间里，失控的蝗虫群在这片贫困地区肆虐，啃食大片庄稼， eating fields of crops and leaving little to sell or feed the farm animals. 几乎没留下什么可以出售或喂养家畜的东西。 Our elders talk...