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Scientists from Kew Gardens described almost 100 plants and  fungi  that were new to science last year, from a red-flowered  orchid  that grows on the top of an  extinct  volcano, to  lichens   clinging to  rocks in Antarctica and a palm tree that  thrives   underground . 邱园的科学家们记录了近100种新发现的植物和真菌，其中包括生长在死火山顶部...

Emperor penguins live in  extreme conditions , coming together during  the height of  the Antarctic winter to  breed  in distinct  groupings . 帝企鹅生活在极端的气候条件下，它们在南极严冬时期聚集在一起，在各自不同的小群落中繁殖。  These  colonies  tend to be separated from each other by an average of about 150 miles. Scientists have been using satellite...

The researchers say if you  joined up  all the  hedgerows  in England, they would stretch almost ten times around the Earth. Their map, which is based on  laser scanning  hedges from the air rather than  scaling up  information from  field surveys , gives a more complete picture of the quality and quantity of hedgerows across the country. 研究人员们说，...

Are you feeling  peckish ? Maybe it's a while until your next  meal , so perhaps now you're thinking about reaching for a brightly coloured  packet  with something  delicious  inside. Maybe it's time for a snack. You're not alone, we all do it – but just how much work goes into developing and making the snacks that we all know and love? 你觉得饿吗？ 也许距离你的下一顿...

Now, pretty much everyone has a camera in their back pocket – in the form of a  smartphone . It's easy to take hundreds of photos without needing to really consider  set up  or  storage . And it's very hard to imagine that, at one time,  capturing  an image was an almost impossible process. 现在，几乎每个人的后口袋里都有一个相机——以智能手机的形式。 您可以轻松拍摄数百...

You might have heard of the expression 'a guilty pleasure' – maybe it's the chocolate bar you buy on the way home from work, or the new clothes that you don't really need. It comes from the idea that when we  treat  ourselves, it can sometimes leave us feeling guilty. Perhaps we don't feel we  deserved  it, or we don't think it was a  responsible  way to spend our mon...

Canada recently announced a two-year limit on the number of foreign students given permission to study in the country. The move is partly to ease a growing housing shortage. 加拿大最近宣布对获准在该国学习的外国学生人数实行两年限制。 此举部分是为了缓解日益严重的住房短缺问题。 Reuters news agency recently reported on some of the details of the plan: 路透社最近报道了该计划的一些细节： Marc...

This report confirms what many people have long suspected. More and more trees are being destroyed as forest fires are getting worse all over the world. 这份报告证实了许多人长期以来的猜测：森林大火在世界各地频繁发生，越来越多的树木被烧毁。 In 2021, an area the size of Portugal was lost, almost  doubling  the level of destruction since the turn of the century. Climate change is seen as a...

In February 1866, Charles Dickens  threatened  to move away from his part of Kent [in the UK] because of the loss of a Sunday postal service. “I should be so  hampered  by the proposed restriction” he writes, in a letter  made public  for the first time, “that I think it would force me to leave this part of the country.” 1866年2月，查尔斯·狄更斯因周日邮政服务被取消而...

Tickets  for the American football Super Bowl game are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Because of that, some websites that buy and re-sell tickets have set prices for the upcoming game in Las Vegas, Nevada at almost $10,000. 美式橄榄球超级碗比赛的门票是所有体育赛事中最难获得的门票之一。 因此，一些购买和转售门票的网站将即将在内华达州拉斯维加斯举行的比赛的价格定为近 10,000 美元。 The...

Our brain works by  firing off   electrical impulses . The team at Boston University used this in order to  boost  memory. 我们的大脑通过发送电脉冲来工作。美国波士顿大学的研究团队就利用了这一原理来提高人们的记忆力。 They asked volunteers to wear a cap filled with  electrodes , then used precise  electrical currents  to alter their  brainwaves  in 20-min...

At 30 metres long, weighing 25 tonnes, it's thought this  salvage  wreck, found in 2002, was built around 1449 from Basque-country wood and was involved in the  lucrative  wine trade between Portugal and Bristol (UK). 这艘沉船于2002年被发现，船身长30米、重25吨 ，人们认为它是在1449年前后用巴斯克地区的木材建成的，这艘船被用于葡萄牙和英国布里斯托之间利润丰厚的葡萄酒贸易活动。 Hist...

Elon Musk says his company Neuralink has placed an experimental brain device in a person in the first human test of the technology. 埃隆·马斯克表示，他的公司 Neuralink 已经在人体中放置了一个实验性大脑设备，这是该技术的首次人体测试。 Neuralink describes the coin-sized device as a “brain-computer  interface .” It is designed to be  implanted  inside the brain through a medical operati...

The African violet, a plant from Tanzania that came to the U.S. in the late 1800s, received a special honor from the National Garden Bureau (NGB). 非洲紫罗兰是一种来自坦桑尼亚的植物，于 1800 年代末传入美国，获得了国家园林局 (NGB) 的特殊荣誉。 The organization named 2024 “The Year of the African Violet.” Other plants, flowers and vegetables for 2024 include: squash, Angelonia, lily, buddleia and ho...

Scientists in Berlin announced recently the first successful embryo  transfer  in a white rhinoceros. 柏林的科学家最近宣布首次在白犀牛身上成功进行胚胎移植。 The transfer, which occurred in a southern white rhinoceros, offers hope for saving the northern white rhino from completely dying off. 这次发生在南方白犀牛身上的转移，为拯救北方白犀牛免于完全灭绝带来了希望。 The white rhinoceros inc...

Britain’s King Charles was treated recently for a medical condition called enlarged prostate. American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently spent two weeks in a hospital for treatment following an operation for prostate cancer. 英国国王查尔斯最近因前列腺肥大而接受治疗。 美国国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀最近在接受前列腺癌手术后在医院接受了两周的治疗。 The 70-year-old Austin did not share any news of his...

This study  monitored  pregnant women who were working in rice fields in The Gambia. They were farming in direct sun for between two to eight hours, often in high  humidity . 这项研究监测了在冈比亚稻田里工作的孕妇。她们在阳光直射、且经常是高湿度条件下耕作两到八个小时。 Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say as a mother worked in the extreme heat the&...

The value to society of satellite  meteorology  is  immense . In terms of lives saved and  infrastructure  damage that's avoided, the returns on investment run into billions annually. 卫星气象学的社会价值是巨大的。就卫星气象学挽救的生命和因其免遭破坏的基础设施而言，每年相关投资的回报可达数十亿美元。 Europe's new Meteosat will replace technology that is now more than 20 yea...

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of very small plastic known as nanoplastics, a recent study says. 最近的一项研究表明，每升瓶装水中平均含有近 25 万个看不见的非常小的塑料，即纳米塑料。 Researchers found the nanoplastics with a microscope using dual lasers. 研究人员用双激光显微镜发现了纳米塑料。 Scientists long figured there were lots of these very sma...

Cameroon has begun the world’s first major malaria vaccine program for children. 喀麦隆已启动世界上第一个针对儿童的大型疟疾疫苗计划。 The campaign launched Monday in the Central African nation. Health officials called the effort a major step in the fight against the disease across Africa. The continent accounts for about 95 percent of the world’s malaria deaths. 该活动周一在这个中非国家发起。 卫生...

The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of  pornographic  deepfake images of the singer. 社交媒体网站 X 屏蔽了泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 的一些搜索，以应对网上传播泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 的色情深度伪造图片的情况。 A “deepfake” is an image, sound recording, or video created to make it appear that people in it are saying or...

Japan’s space agency says a spacecraft that landed on the moon earlier this month has regained power and is continuing its  mission . 日本宇宙航空研究开发机构表示，本月早些时候登陆月球的航天器已恢复动力并继续执行任务。 Officials from the Japan Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Monday they had successfully reestablished communication with the SLIM moon explorer. 日本研究开发机构 (JAXA) 的官员周一...

Gene treatments are being credited with permitting several children born with deafness to hear again. 基因治疗被认为使一些先天性耳聋的儿童能够再次听到声音。 Gene therapy is a medical treatment that aims to change a few of a patient’s genes to cure a genetic disease. 基因疗法是一种旨在改变患者的一些基因以治愈遗传性疾病的医疗方法。 A small study recently published in The Lancet reported im...

A large U.S. study found no evidence that taking Ozempic or Wegovy is tied to an increase in suicidal thoughts, researchers reported recently. 研究人员最近报告称，美国的一项大型研究发现，没有证据表明服用 Ozempic 或 Wegovy 与自杀念头增加有关。 Both Ozempic for type 2 diabetes and the  obesity  treatment Wegovy have the same active ingredient, semaglutide. 用于治疗 2 型糖尿病的 Ozempic 和...

The researchers from Sorbonne Paris Nord University say they were surprised by how efficient and reliable the ants were in  sniffing out  cancer. 70 ants belonging to the species known as Formica fusca were  exposed  to  urine  samples from mice with and without  cancerous  cells. 来自巴黎第十三大学（又称 “索邦-巴黎北大学”）的研究人员表示，他们对蚂蚁能如此高...