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一项新的科学发现可能在未来帮助延缓皮肤衰老的迹象。一个科研团队查明了人体干细胞生产皮肤细胞的过程，并且成功地在实验室环境中培育出了一小片皮肤。 The basic building blocks of humans are cells. When embryos are first fertilised, they’re all the same. But after three weeks, they begin to specialise and clump together to…

一对母女在英国南威尔士的居民房中发现了一种新的飞蛾。这些飞蛾在一名摄影师放靴子的袋子里跨越了 4500 英里，从位于南美洲的圭亚那热带雨林来到了南威尔士的庞特道埃。这种飞蛾被命名为 “Carmenta brachyclados”。 The clear-winged, yellow-bellied moths made an improbable journey from the jungle of Guyana to Pontardawe in South Wales before being discovered. One was spotted on…

苍蝇的大脑是由超过 13 万个神经细胞和连接这些细胞的 5000 多万对突触组成的。近日，科学家首次完整地绘制出了苍蝇大脑中的全部细胞和突触的位置、形状和连接方式。 Fruit flies can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo females. All this, and these flies have a brain that’s…

当我们提到章鱼这种动物时，常常会联想到它在海底蠕动身体、独自活动的场景。但科学家认为章鱼可能比我们想象中更加擅长社交。一项新的研究发现，章鱼有时会和其它鱼类共同狩猎。 Octopuses are usually considered to be solitary creatures, but this study suggests they may have richer social lives than previously thought. 章鱼通常被认为是独居动物，但这个研究表明它们的社交生活可能比此前人们认为的更加丰富。 Researchers found they work together with different…

时隔 12 年，英联邦运动会将再次于苏格兰格拉斯哥举行。此前，澳大利亚维多利亚州因成本上涨而放弃 2026 年英联邦运动会的主办权，引发了对该赛事将于何处举办的担忧。 Glasgow hosted an extremely successful Commonwealth Games in 2014. So, after Victoria’s withdrawal, it was suggested the city could rescue the 2026 Games using existing…

格陵兰岛东部峡湾的大规模山体滑坡引发了持续九天 “震动地球” 的巨浪。去年九月，世界各地的传感器接收到了格陵兰岛的 “地震” 信号，这使科学家们开始研究这一震动的来源。 When seismic sensors around the planet picked up the unusual signal emanating from Greenland, a group of geologists set out to solve the mystery of…

近期，又有五种海鸟被列入了英国鸟类红色名单。该名单记录了被认为在英国境内亟待保护的鸟类，比如海鹦鹉。 Britain’s miles of coastline are home to globally important seabird colonies, with more than 20 different species breeding on cliff tops or foraging out at sea. But many populations…

研究人员在苏格兰西海岸附近的加韦勒赫群岛上发现了有关地球有史以来最大冰川期的最佳地质记录，这次冰川期发生在 7.2 亿年前。这场几乎覆盖了整个地球的大冰冻被称为 “雪球地球”，它分为两个阶段，共持续了 8000 万年。在此之后，地球上的第一个动物生命出现了。 Layers of rock can be thought of as pages of a history book – with each layer containing details of the Earth’s condition in…

科学家们在火星岩石外壳的深处发现了一个液态水库。这个发现得于对美国航空航天局（NASA）“洞察号” 火星探测器收集的数据的新分析，该探测器于 2018 年登陆火星。 It’s so low-pitched it’s difficult to hear, but this is the rumble of the wind on Mars. It was detected by sensors on the Insight Lander,…

科学家通过采集和分析有数百年历史的珊瑚礁样本发现，气候变化对大堡礁造成了严重威胁。研究表明，过去十年中大堡礁周围的海水温度达到了四百年来的最高点。 The Great Barrier Reef is Earth’s largest collection of coral reefs, and it’s home to thousands of marine species. 大堡礁是地球上规模最大的珊瑚礁群，这里生活着成千上万种海洋生物。 This alarming new evidence comes from inside the coral…

一组科学家说，他们发现了新的证据来支持他们认为复杂生命在地球上出现的时间或许比之前认为的要早 15 亿年的理论。 This theory is a big departure from conventional thinking. Most experts agree that animal life emerged 635 million years ago. But this team say they detected an…

詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜打破了自己的记录：人们用它观测到了已知最遥远的星系。这个星系被称为 JADES-GS-z14-0，科学家们观测到了它仅处于 “大爆炸” 之后 2.9 亿年时的形态。 It’s just a faint red smudge, but the detectors on the James Webb Telescope are in no doubt that this galaxy, a large collection…

德国柏林的科学家们发现，一种透明小鱼发出的声音和风钻的音量一样响。 This buzzing, chirping sound is the pulsing chatter of the tiny transparent Danionella cerebrum as heard by the human ear. Researchers in Germany were intrigued by the noise coming…

科学家们认为，路灯造成的光污染使萤火虫数量下降。这些小动物其实是一种甲虫，它们利用腹部发出的荧光来求偶。 Glow-worms are beetles that live in gardens, hedgerows, and heathlands. Emitting a bright green light at night, the females climb up plant stems and glow in order to attract…

有证据表明，200 多年来，鱼鹰首次在爱尔兰繁殖。动物保护机构 “阿尔斯特野生动物（Ulster Wildlife）” 称，鱼鹰雏鸟的发现地位于爱尔兰弗马纳郡的一个不对外公开的巢址。 This is not the first local sighting of ospreys – soaring birds of prey with long hazel-flecked wings, white feather crowns and distinctive eye stripes.…