科学家们首次拍摄到以戴维·阿滕伯勒爵士的名字命名的一种古老的卵生哺乳动物 —— Attenborough long-beaked echidna 阿滕伯勒长喙针鼹。此前人们认为这种针鼹恐怕已经灭绝，但这些影像证明事实并非如此。 The black-and-white images taken from a camera trap show the Attenborough long-beaked echidna lumbering through the rainforest. Four three-second bursts of video.…
根据英国海洋环境保护协会的一项调查显示，过去一年，人们在英国的海域中和海滩上发现的水母数量增加了32%。最多见的是巨型桶水母，但也有人看到过更少见的暖水性水晶果冻水母。 Most of these jellyfish sightings reported to the Marine Conservation Society were in Cornwall and off the west coast of Wales. The most commonly seen was…
英国学生住房慈善机构 Unipol 表示，住宿费用几乎占据了英国大学生获得的平均生活费贷款的全部。 In the past two years, student accommodation costs have risen by an average of nearly 15% in…
专家警告称，英国饮用水中 “永久性化学物质” 的含量需要受到更严格的控制，这些化学物质可能危害人类健康。这类污染物被称为 PFAS（per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances），即全氟和多氟烷基物质。有研究表明，摄入大量的全氟和多氟烷基物质会导致严重的健康问题，包括癌症和生育问题。 'Forever chemicals' are used in a wide range of products from food packaging to make-up because of their water-resistant properties. “永久性化学物质” 因其防水的特性被广泛用于食品包装和化妆品等各类产品中。 UK…
作为提高安全保障措施中的一部分，英国国家障碍赛马大赛的参赛人数从40人减少到34人。 The Grand National, regarded by many as the world's most famous horse race, features jockeys and horses negotiating 30 fences over more than four miles,…
来自挪威的作家、诗人、剧作家约恩·福瑟被授予诺贝尔文学奖。评定该奖项的瑞典文学院称，约恩·福瑟获奖是因为他 “以创新性的戏剧和散文为不可言喻之事发声”。 Jon Fosse began writing stories as a child. His breakthrough novel, Boathouse, was published in 1989. Having established himself as…
科学家们表示，他们发现先前出土的多双草编凉鞋是欧洲最古老的鞋子，据信已有6000多年的历史。 The items were first discovered deep inside the cave in the 19th Century. But scientists have only recently realised…
（本节目所用的音频资源于2023年9月中下旬发表。） 全英被大学录取的18岁英国学生人数五年来首次下降。 About 85% of 18-year-olds in the UK who applied to university this year were accepted. That is roughly the same…
一项大型植物调查研究显示，对于70年前长大的人来说，如今英国的部分植物景观已面目全非，无法辨识。 For 20 years, volunteers examined the UK and Ireland kilometre-by-kilometre, writing down the flora they found. This so-called plant atlas,…
科学家们在不使用精子、卵子和子宫的情况下培育出了一种与人类早期胚胎非常相似的实体。魏茨曼研究所的研究团队称，他们使用干细胞创建的 “胚胎模型” 看上去如同一个典型的发育到14天大的真实人类胚胎。 We all start as a single egg fertilised by a sperm, but those steps, going from a group of cells to something…