本集内容 Is it unhealthy to drink coffee with your meal? 边吃饭边喝咖啡影响健康吗？ 文字稿 Is it unhealthy to drink coffee with your meal? 边吃饭边喝咖啡影响健康吗？ It is true that coffee might affect the…
本集内容 Why potatoes wouldn’t exist without tomatoes 为什么没有番茄就没有土豆 文字稿 Potatoes and tomatoes taste great together in a stew, don’t they? Well, thanks to research, we now know that they not…
本集内容 Can DNA of 800-year-old oak help save future forests? 八百岁古橡树的 DNA 能帮助我们拯救未来的森林吗？ 文字稿 The Druids Oak has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for hundreds of years, withstanding droughts,…
本集内容 How a new ‘superfood’ for bees could help our own food security 为蜜蜂研发的一种新型 “超级食物” 如何帮助保障人类自身的食品安全 文字稿 Nick Mensikov, Cardiff, Vale and Valleys Beekeepers Association“I know the queen is in…
本集内容 Rare cheese made from donkey milk 用驴奶制作的稀有奶酪 文字稿 Pule cheese is from Serbia. You might be surprised to hear that it’s made from donkey milk. You might be even…
本集内容 Duck wardens in the town of Thirsk瑟斯克小镇的鸭子管理员 文字稿 Emma-Jayne Hutchings, duck warden“We come up every evening and we escort the ducks and their babies into the local car park,…
本集内容 High-speed toy squirrel helping train guide dogs 高速玩具松鼠车帮助训犬师训练导盲犬 文字稿 Good morning, welcome to Guide Dogs. How can I help? 早上好，欢迎致电英国导盲犬协会。我能帮您吗？ Jayne McCubbin, BBC correspondent“The squirrel.” 珍妮·麦卡宾 BBC 通讯员“那只 ‘松鼠’。”…
本集内容 The UK breaks meteorological records as climate extremes rise 英国极端气候变化的加剧导致气象记录频破 文字稿 We need to brace ourselves for more heatwaves, because the UK will be seeing many more very hot…
本集内容 UK scientists to examine the world’s oldest ice sample 英国科学家将仔细研究世界上最古老的冰层样本 文字稿 Extracted from deep beneath Antarctica, a core of ice – the oldest that’s ever been collected. And it…
本集内容 Can noise-cancelling headphones cause hearing problems? 降噪耳机会导致听力问题吗？ 文字稿 Do you own a pair of noise-cancelling headphones? 你是否拥有一副降噪耳机？ Well, for some that do, they’re wearing them for hours on end,…
本集内容 Scientists have built the ‘world’s smallest violin’ 科学家们制造出了 “世界上最小的小提琴” 文字稿 Here it is. The world’s smallest violin, on this chip. 它在这里。这是世界上最小的小提琴，就在这块芯片上。 Scientists at Loughborough University believe they have created…
本集内容 Four asteroids scientists keep an eye on 科学家们密切关注的四颗小行星 文字稿 Chances of hitting Earth? Here are four asteroids scientists monitor closely. 小行星撞击地球的几率有多大？我们来看看科学家们密切监测的四颗小行星的情况。 Several organisations like Nasa monitor them, and for…
本集内容 How Australia is turning dangerous venom into life-saving treatments 澳大利亚将蜘蛛和蛇的毒液变为救命血清 文字稿 Meet Emma, chief spider keeper and handler of the deadliest arachnid in the world. 这是爱玛，“首席” 蜘蛛饲养员以及世界上最致命的蛛形纲动物的管理员。 Emma Teni,…
本集内容 Rescuers dress as mother bear to raise orphaned cub found alone 动物救助人员扮成熊妈妈抚养失去双亲的小熊 文字稿 This ‘bear’ taking care of its cub may look real, but have you noticed that it’s…
科学家们发现了一种长有铠甲的新恐龙，它的颈部长有一米长的尖刺。这种被称为非洲刺圈龙的恐龙生活在 1.65 亿年前，它是甲龙属恐龙中最古老的一种，这类恐龙通常都长有铠甲。 The animal is covered in spikes all over its back including some that are one metre long emerging from its neck. It also has a bony collar…
研究人员们表示，一款名为 “埃涅阿斯” 的全新人工智能工具有望加快我们了解整个人类历史的步伐。人工智能此前已经被用于填补古罗马卷轴中缺失的部分，但这个新工具的能力远不止于此。 Historians face many problems in piecing together the past from ancient inscriptions. They’re usually incomplete, and also their origin and date may not be known. 历史学家们在用古代铭文拼凑过往时面临许多难题。这些铭文通常残缺不全，而且它们的来源和年代也可能无从知晓。 Researchers…
2025 年，英国海域迎来了一个温暖的开年。这是自 1980 年有记录以来英国周边海水温度最暖和的一年，温暖的海水推动了海洋生物及英国渔业环境的显著变化。 The data shows the average surface temperature of UK waters in the seven months to the end of July was more than 0.2 degrees celsius higher…
基于从卢旺达获取的数据，研究人员进而展开的新研究表明，雌性山地大猩猩之间建立的关系比人们此前认为的更加重要。 Moving from one group to another is something that shapes both gorilla and human society. To understand more about its evolutionary origins, researchers studied decades of data on mountain…
研究人员们通过高分辨率的图像在一具有 2500 年历史的西伯利亚 “冰封木乃伊” 身上发现了复杂精细的纹身图案。即使对现代纹身师而言，制作这些图案也是一项极具挑战性的工作。 The images reveal intricate details in the ancient tattoos, which picture leopards, a stag, a rooster and the mythical griffin creature that is half lion…
一项重要研究的结果显示，每天走七千步可能就足以提高人的脑力并帮助预防多种疾病。不少人常把每天走一万步作为保持健康的基准，但比起一万步，7000 步似乎是一个更容易实现的目标。 If you’ve got a phone or a fitness tracker, you’re probably checking your steps each day. Reach 10,000 and you feel smug. Why? Well, we’ve been told it’s…