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The Mona Lisa is the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting of a woman with a mysterious smile.  《蒙娜丽莎》是列奥纳多·达·芬奇的著名画作，画中的女人带着神秘的微笑。  This week, the painting gave up a secret.  本周，这幅画透露了一个秘密。  Scientists used X-rays to examine the chemical structure of an extremely small part of the more than 500-year-old painting. The researchers disco...

We're all familiar with the idea of climate change and how our planet is warming. Extremes in temperature have become more commonplace, making parts of the world difficult to live in. But one place where excessive heat is making life very uncomfortable is our cities. Luckily, innovation might be keeping a lid on it.  我们都熟悉气候变化的概念以及地球如何变暖。 极端温度已经变得越来越普遍，使得...

Haruka: Mark, you have a podcast, right?  Haruka：马克，你有播客，对吧？  Mark: Yes, I do.  马克：是的，我有。 H aruka:  What's your podcast about?  Haruka：你的播客是关于什么的？  Mark It's called Zen Sammich, but it's about Zen, but I also cast the net pretty wide. So I talk about a lot of different topics.  马克：它叫 Zen Sammich，但它是关于禅宗的，但我也把网...

The Titanic lies nearly 4,000 metres down in the Atlantic, but she's so huge that in the gloom, cameras can only show tantalising snapshots of the decaying ship – never the whole thing.  泰坦尼克号船体残骸沉没在大西洋海下近4000米处，由于船体巨大，在昏暗的海底，相机只能拍到这艘腐朽沉船的局部照片，很难捕捉到船的全貌。  This new full-sized scan reveals the wreck in its entirety. Using ...

Todd: Okay, here's another thing. It's a little bit impolite. What about looking at other people's monitor over their shoulder? 'Cause you just mentioned the BTS. One thing I have to admit is, because I don't have my phone out and I am looking around, I have a tendency to see, wanna check and see what's on everybody's phone. And it's total intrusion. It's creepy in a way, but it's also because in...

Todd: So I'm here with Angela, and in a previous interview we were talking about kids and technology and devices, and how these days often people look at their device when they're with another person. How do you feel about that? If you're eating with somebody, you're at dinner, is it okay to check your phone?  托德：我和安吉拉一起在这里，在之前的一次采访中，我们讨论了孩子、技术和设备，以及现...

It was a criticism about her Afro-braided hair that led Ruth Essel to create what she calls a safe space for Black dancers.  正是对她的非洲辫子头发的批评促使露丝·埃塞尔为黑人舞者创造了她所谓的安全空间。 The founder of Pointe Black Ballet School in London said when she was a child, teachers and others all but punished her for not following the traditional ballerina way.  伦敦黑角芭蕾舞学...

The West Coast of the United States produces over 90 percent of America’s wine, an alcoholic drink. However, the area is also prone to wildfires.  美国 90% 以上的葡萄酒（一种酒精饮料）产自美国西海岸。然而，该地区也容易发生野火。  Such fires cost the American wine industry billions of dollars in 2020. The smoke affects the flavor of the growing grapes that later become the wine. And, the...

For 20 years, volunteers examined the UK and Ireland kilometre-by-kilometre, writing down the flora they found. This so-called plant  atlas , made by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, is the most complete picture of plant life ever recorded in the UK. 二十年来，志愿者们对英国和爱尔兰一公里一公里地统计，记录下了所发现的植物群。由英国和爱尔兰植物学会编制，这本 “植物图集” 是英国有记...

Pickleball. It's got nothing to do with pickles – it's a sport. It has been described as a combination of tennis, badminton and table tennis. Picture a small plastic ball soaring through the air that you need to bat back to your partner, or partners.  匹克球。这与泡菜无关——这是一项运动。它被描述为网球、羽毛球和乒乓球的结合。想象一个小塑料球在空中翱翔，您需要将其击回给您的一个或多个伙伴。 Many...

For the last few years, researchers at the Instituto Agronomico de Campinas in Brazil have been  interbreeding  different coffee plants that are naturally very low in  caffeine  in order to create trees where decaf beans are grown naturally. 在过去几年里，巴西坎皮纳斯农业研究所的研究人员们一直在杂交培育不同的天然低因咖啡植物，以培育出自然生长低因咖啡豆的树木。 And the results s...

Three scientists in the United States won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. The three won for their discovery of quantum dots, a technology widely used today to make displays for electronic devices and medical imaging.  周三，美国三名科学家荣获诺贝尔化学奖。 三人因发现量子点而获奖，量子点是一种当今广泛用于制造电子设备和医学成像显示器的技术。  The Royal Swedish Aca...

Pope Francis on Wednesday is opening a gathering of bishops and others to discuss the future of the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the discussions include subjects that have never been considered before. 教皇方济各周三将召开主教和其他人士的聚会，讨论罗马天主教会的未来。 有些讨论包括以前从未考虑过的主题。 For the first time, women and non-clergy can vote alongside bishops i...

Indoor food growing operations are seeing both successes and failures in the United States. Some companies in the food industry are investing even as competitors fail.  在美国，室内粮食种植业务既有成功也有失败。即使竞争对手失败了，食品行业的一些公司仍在投资。  California-based Plenty Unlimited this summer began work on a $300 million indoor plant, while Kroger announced that it will be i...

At almost a foot long, researchers say the knapped-shaped stone  axe heads , thick at the base and tapering to a finer point, would have been so heavy that it would have been hard to handle by early humans, sparking  speculation  that they may have had a  ceremonial  purpose. 这些被敲击而成形的石制斧头有将近一英尺长，底部较厚，至尖端逐渐变细。研究人员说这些斧头如此沉重以至...

We all start as a single  egg   fertilised  by a  sperm , but those  steps , going from a group of cells to something you can see and recognise on a baby  scan , are poorly understood, so scientists have created  embryo   models  in the lab to explore this crucial time. 我们每个人的生命都是从一个受精卵开始的，但从起初的一组细胞发育成婴儿扫描影像中可以看...

Rickshaw comes from a Japanese word that means “human-powered vehicle.” The vehicle was first used in 19th-century Japan and then in other Asian countries to transport passengers. Rickshaw 源自日语，意思是“人力车辆”。 该车辆首先在 19 世纪的日本使用，然后在其他亚洲国家用于运送乘客。 Rickshaw pullers are traditionally male. Through social media, some Japanese women are drawn to the profess...

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has long worked to make her city less dependent on cars. She wanted to see more people using bicycles, or bikes, to get around. 巴黎市长安妮·伊达尔戈长期以来一直致力于减少她的城市对汽车的依赖。 她希望看到更多的人使用自行车出行。 Over a number of years, the city government put in restrictions on cars and increased the amount of bike lanes from 200 kilometers to over 1,...

Sometimes our friends'  behaviour  can  offend  us; sometimes we can see changes they need to make – but how do we tell them? Are there any ways to make difficult conversations easier? 有时朋友的行为会冒犯我们； 有时我们可以看到他们需要做出的改变——但我们如何告诉他们呢？ 有什么方法可以让困难的对话变得更容易吗？ It's important to have solid evidence that there is indeed a  p...

Researchers say they have recovered genetic material from the Tasmanian tiger, an Australian animal that has long been  extinct . The discovery could help scientists learn more about these creatures before they disappeared from Earth. 研究人员表示，他们已经从塔斯马尼亚虎身上找到了遗传物质，塔斯马尼亚虎是一种早已灭绝的澳大利亚动物。 这一发现可以帮助科学家在这些生物从地球上消失之前更多地了解它...

Neutrinos , or 'ghost  particles ' as they're known, are made when  cosmic rays  that are rattling around space at near  light speed , smash into other  matter . Astronomers say understanding where they come from is key to understanding the  dynamics  that shape the Milky Way. 中微子，又称 “幽灵粒子”，是当宇宙射线以接近光速的速度穿过太空大气层，撞击其它物质时产生...

The WHO says it has listed aspartame as possibly  carcinogenic  on the  basis  of  limited evidence  that it may increase the  risk  of liver cancer. This places aspartame in the same  hazard  classification group as aloe vera and Asian pickled vegetables, but below those deemed probably carcinogenic such as  night shift  work and eating...

Los Alamos in the Southwestern American state of New Mexico is where the U.S. government set up its secret mission to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. 位于美国西南部新墨西哥州的洛斯阿拉莫斯是美国政府在二战期间设立秘密研制核武器任务的地方。 Eighty years later, it is the home to huge government research and development laboratories. 八十年后，它成为了庞大的政府研发实验室的所在...

“Leaf-peepers” are  tourists  who visit the countryside in the northeastern United States each autumn. “Peeper” means looker, someone who looks. “赏叶者”是指每年秋天到美国东北部乡村游览的游客。 “Peeper”的意思是观看者、观看的人。 The leaf-peepers travel to see the seasonal changes to the trees. Their leaves turn color from green to deep red, bright yellow and rich orange before finally fa...

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said Sunday that it had reached an agreement with Hollywood movie and television  studios . The announcement signaled that the group’s five-month strike is nearing an end. 美国作家协会（WGA）周日表示，已与好莱坞电影和电视制片厂达成协议。 该公告标志着该组织为期五个月的罢工即将结束。 The WGA is the labor group that represents writers in the United States who w...