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Happy Birthday To You is the most recognised song in the English language. The melody was composed by two sisters in Kentucky in 1893. Their song evolved into Happy Birthday and was first copyrighted by the Summy Company in 1935. Warner/Chappell bought the rights in 1988 and has been receiving around $2m in royalties a year ever since. 祝你生日快乐是英语中最受认可的歌曲。 这首旋律由肯塔基州的两姐...

The European Union fined Meta a record $1.3 billion for privacy violations Monday. The EU ordered Meta to stop sending users’ personal information to the United States by October. Meta owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) issued the fine. The punishment came after Meta continued to transfer Europeans’ data beyond a 2020 EU court ruling that struck dow...

Kehinde Wiley is a well-known and influential American artist. His paintings and sculptures are the subject of art shows around the United States. The 46-year-old Wiley seems especially busy right now. His work is currently on display at shows on both the East and West coasts of the U.S. He has another show in Paris, France. And he is expanding artistic bases in Africa. Wiley shot to fame outside...

Oxford University has predicted that 35% of jobs in the UK workforce are at risk from automation over the next 10 to 20 years. But Deloitte paints an optimistic picture of the way technology has transformed work over the past 15 years. While some jobs have been destroyed by automation – the number of typists is down by 75% - far more have been created. 牛津大学预测，在未来 10 到 20 年内，英国劳动...

The month of May is the best planting time in many areas in the northern half of the world. Many gardeners are visiting garden centers now to buy plants. Those who have grown plants from seeds indoors may be getting ready to plant them in the garden at about this time. However, seedlings cannot usually go straight from an indoor growing area to outdoor beds and borders without risk. They need to b...

We're used to tropical storms and hurricanes being given names in other parts of the world often decided by a committee. Now storms in the UK and Ireland that have the potential to cause damage are to get the same treatment but decided by the public. 我们已经习惯了热带风暴和飓风在世界其他地方的命名通常是由一个委员会决定的。 现在，英国和爱尔兰可能造成破坏的风暴将获得相同的待遇，但由公众决定。 Putti...

The Kumbh Mela is currently under way at two venues in Maharashtra state with nearly three million Hindus attending. Kumbh Mela 目前正在马哈拉施特拉邦的两个场地举行，有近 300 万印度教徒参加。 For any pilgrim its culmination is the so-called royal bath in a river deemed sacred. It's during this bathing, which starts in just under two weeks' time, that selfies are being banned. 对于任...

Fungi play an important role in ecosystems, are a source of food, and make key contributions to the world of medicine. So, why do we know so little about them? 真菌在生态系统中发挥着重要作用，是食物的来源，并对医学界做出重要贡献。 那么，为什么我们对它们知之甚少呢？ An estimated two million fungal species – more than 90% of all fungi – have yet to be described by science, according to Rebecca Morel...

Hilda Baci is a chef in Lagos, Nigeria. She recently stayed in the kitchen for 100 hours and only took short breaks each hour. She started cooking on May 11 and did not stop until May 15. Baci’s goal was to break the Guinness World Record for longest cooking time. An Indian chef set the current record of 87 hours, 45 minutes in 2019. Baci made classic Nigerian food like soups, stew and meats. She...

A genetic analysis revealed that the average household had more than 2,000 species of fungi. The types of fungus found though depended on the home's location, suggesting these minute organisms are drifting in from outside. 基因分析显示，平均每个家庭拥有超过 2,000 种真菌。 发现的真菌类型取决于房屋所在的位置，这表明这些微小的生物体是从外面飘进来的。 The researchers also discovered an average 7,000 d...

Joe Seaman-Graves is the city planner for the small town of Cohoes, New York. He was in search of a less costly way of providing electricity to the town. There was no extra land to build on. But Cohoes does have a nearly 6-hectare water reservoir. Seaman-Graves looked up the term “floating solar” on Google. He was not familiar with the technology, which has long been a popular way to produce...

Life is full of choices, some inconsequential, some really significant. But sometimes it can be hard to make the correct one. What are the obstacles that stand between us and a good outcome? Some of us just find it hard to decide. Alice Boyes, writing for Harvard Business Review, tells us this can be connected to perfectionism, where people attempt to find a perfect solution to any problem and are...

A petit basset griffon Vendéen, or PBGV, won top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York City Tuesday. The dog, called Buddy Holly, won the award for best in show. The breed he represents is known for its rabbit-hunting ability. Buddy Holly defeated six other candidates to take the prize at the most famous dog show in the United States. This year’s event was held at the U.S.T.A....

More than 600 million people around the world lack access to clean drinking water and this book has the potential to help. 全世界有超过 6 亿人无法获得干净的饮用水，而这本书有可能提供帮助。 It's relatively cheap, easy to ship and its pages serve two purposes: firstly, they are printed with instructions on how and why water should be filtered; secondly, they can be torn out and used as filters. 它相...

There is good news for people who hate passwords. Google has added a different way to log in to its services. This new feature employs the use of “passkeys.”Passkeys represent a safer alternative to passwords and texted confirmation codes. Users will not ever see the passkeys directly. Instead, an online service like Gmail will use them to communicate directly with a trusted device such as your ph...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to study the effects of its dredging operations on sea turtles in the state of Georgia. Dredging is the process of removing sand from waterways. The agency announced its decision Friday. Shortly after, local non-profit group One Hundred Miles withdrew its legal action aimed at stopping dredging. “The Corps has now committed to what we’ve asked for, to go...

For the first time, a new process that uses the genetic material of three people has resulted in the birth of several babies in Britain. The experimental process has been used before in Mexico and the United States. Britain’s fertility regulator said Wednesday that the parents used a process which was approved with some restrictions in 2015. The story was first reported by The Guardian newspaper....

Astronauts have been growing crops in space for years but this is the first time they’ve eaten the produce while still in orbit. It took the crew on the space station 33 days to grow the red romaine lettuce under LED lamps. 多年来，宇航员一直在太空种植农作物，但这是他们第一次在轨道上吃到这些农产品。空间站的工作人员花了 33 天时间才在 LED 灯下种植红色长叶莴苣。 Before they could eat the leaves they...

It used to be thought that apes could only make noises that were tied to their emotions such as barks of alarm or hoots of excitement. But this strange peeping sound recorded from wild bonobos appears to have more in common with the calls of human babies. 过去人们认为，猿类只能发出与其情绪相关的声音，例如惊恐的吠叫或兴奋的叫声。但这种从野生倭黑猩猩身上记录下来的奇怪的窥视声似乎与人类婴儿的叫声更相...

When the top secret radio and radar station was established on the headland at Aird Uig 60 years ago, it was part of Nato's early warning system against Soviet submarines and aircraft. Now the Ministry of Defence has no further use for the derelict buildings and the windswept clifftop site. 60 年前，当最高机密的无线电和雷达站在艾尔德乌格的岬角上建立时，它是北约针对苏联潜艇和飞机的预警系统的一部分...

Scientists have been listening out for signals from intelligent civilisations on other worlds for decades, so far with no success. This new initiative is the most ambitious yet. It will survey ten times more of the sky than previous programmes. And over the next ten years, radio telescopes will listen out for broadcasts from a million of the stars closest to the Earth. 几十年来，科学家们一直在倾听...

For those of us who grew up with the idea that there were nine planets, this is the moment we get to complete the set. Robotic probes have been to all the others - even the distant Uranus and Neptune. Pluto is the last of the familiar nine to get a visit. 对于我们这些从小就认为有九颗行星的人来说，这是我们完成这组行星的时刻。 机器人探测器已经到达了所有其他行星——甚至是遥远的天王星和海王星。 冥王星是...

Starting this Friday, eight free wi-fi hotspots will start operating at rest stops all the way up the mountain, including three on the summit. Japanese tourism officials say they will be handing out English instructions to hikers as they head up the trails. 从本周五开始，八个免费 Wi-Fi 热点将在上山途中的休息站开始运行，其中三个位于山顶。 日本旅游官员表示，他们将在徒步旅行者前往小径时向他们分...

It took three years to complete, and weighs in at an impressive 340 pages, but Sir Howard's report on aviation capacity comes to a simple, single conclusion. 这份报告用了三年时间才完成，厚达 340 页，令人印象深刻，但霍华德爵士关于航空能力的报告得出了一个简单、单一的结论。 A new runway at Heathrow is the best option for maintaining Britain's connections to the world and providing billions of pounds...

Why do farmers grow crops outside in fields when we can stack them vertically? The idea of vertical farming was first proposed in 1999. It was seen as a way to save space, reduce air miles and transform old and abandoned buildings, like warehouses. In 2021, Fortune Business Insights valued the global vertical farming market at 3.47 billion dollars. Now, however, this industry is under threat,&nbsp...