科学家发现，人的大脑会在一生中经历五个不同的阶段，而九岁、32 岁、66 岁和 83 岁是这些不同阶段的转折点。 4,000 brain scans of people up to the age of 90 have revealed our brains go through five distinct eras. The first is childhood. This…
我们吃的东西正在发生改变，新鲜、天然的食物正在被便宜、高度加工的三餐所取代。这种改变增加了人们患上多种慢性疾病的风险，包括肥胖和抑郁症。国际专家认为，我们需要采取行动减少全世界饮食中的超加工食品，因为这些食品对我们的健康构成了威胁。 The international team of researchers says ultra-processed foods present too great a danger to health to wait any longer to take action against them. 一个国际研究团队称，超加工食品对健康的危害太大，所以必须立即采取行动来应对。 They say products containing…
科学家发现，1 型糖尿病在低龄儿童身上发病时更严重、来势更凶猛。1 型糖尿病是免疫系统攻击控制血糖水平的胰腺细胞造成的。 Children, particularly those under the age of seven, seem to develop more aggressive type 1 diabetes than those diagnosed later in life. Researchers at the University of…
一项发布在《内科学年鉴》（Annals of Internal Medicine）上的新研究发现，每天一次长距离步行比多次短距离步行更有利于心脏健康，特别是对锻炼量较少的人来说。 The study looked at more than 33,000 adults aged 40 to 79 in the UK who walked fewer than 8,000 steps a day. The researchers, from…
一种在英国境内 40 年未见的、极度濒危的蜘蛛物种最近被重新发现。人们在一处偏远的自然保护区内发现了这种蜘蛛，该自然保护区只有乘船才能抵达。 The two tiny arachnids, measuring just three millimetres long, were found by scientists surveying the Newtown National Nature Reserve using a type of handheld vacuum device. It…
颇具声望的布克奖的组织者新设立了一个儿童小说奖项，该奖项的评委包括儿童和成年人。跟布克奖和国际布克奖一样，每位入围的小说作者将获得 2500 英镑，最终获奖的作者将得到五万英镑奖金。 This new prize aims to celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old. It will be open to authors from around the…
冰岛在今年春天经历了创纪录的高温天气。随后，人们在该国首次发现了蚊子。 Iceland has no shortage of natural dangers – volcanic eruptions, glacial floods, scaldingly hot springs and bitterly cold winters. But it is at least one of the few places…
“Sawfly（锯蜂）” 是一种与黄蜂相似的昆虫，这种昆虫会切开植物并把自己的卵产在切口处。苏格兰赫瑞-瓦特大学的研究人员一直在研究雌性锯蜂怎么知道如何做出这种独特的切割，从而避免杀死或损伤植物。 Sawflies are named after the saw-like organ used by the females to lay eggs in plants. The insects want to avoid killing the plants, which provide food for…
许多英国病虫害防治公司在过去五年中因老鼠导致的呼叫请求出现了增长。这一趋势不仅仅正在影响着英国。有报道称，多个美国城市都出现了老鼠数量的激增，包括华盛顿特区、旧金山和纽约市，以及阿姆斯特丹和多伦多。 The British Pest Control Association says its members have recorded an increase in complaints about rat activity around the UK. Cleankill, a company that operates in the south of…
医生们表示，针对最残酷、最具破坏性的疾病之一——亨廷顿病的疗法首次取得成功。这种家族遗传病会残酷无情地杀死脑细胞，症状与失智症、帕金森氏综合症和运动神经元疾病共患相类似。 Huntington’s is one of the most brutal and devastating of all diseases. It’s caused by a faulty gene which progressively destroys brain cells, which then affects all parts of…
科学家认为，人工智能可以预测人们未来十年后的健康问题。目前，人工智能模型已经学会了通过发现人们医疗记录中疾病的发展模式来计算人们患一千多种疾病的风险。 The researchers describe this artificial intelligence model as like a weather forecast for your health. But instead of warning of a 70% chance of rain, it tells you the…
科学家在火星上发现的不同寻常的岩石中包含了这颗红色行星上可能曾有生命存在过的证据。这些岩石是由美国国家航空航天局的 “毅力” 号火星车在一处布满灰尘的河床上发现的，岩石上有引人注目的纹路。科学家们认为这些纹路可能含有一些矿物质，产生这些矿物质的化学反应或与远古火星微生物有关。 Nasa’s Perseverance Rover has spent the past four years exploring an area of Mars called the Jezero Crater. It’s dry and dusty, but billions of years ago,…
英格兰政府正在计划实施一项新法律，这项法律或将禁止 16 岁以下的未成年人从餐厅、咖啡馆、自动贩卖机或网上购买各种能量饮料。 The major supermarkets have imposed their own voluntary ban on selling high-caffeine drinks to the under-16s, but this isn’t the case in many smaller stores. Plans to…
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…
这是一项规模宏大的翻新工程，它涉及迁移 1300 株植物、更换 1 万 6 千块玻璃窗板，以及清洁数百吨铁材。这项雄心勃勃的计划将耗资 5000 万英镑，旨在翻新坐落在英国皇家植物园邱园核心位置的世界著名温室——“Palm House（棕榈温室）”。 Kew’s Palm House is a wonder of the Victorian age. When it opened in 1848, it was the largest glass…