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医科学生们在利用全息影像学习新技能，这在世界上尚属首次。他们能够使用增强现实头盔装置治疗并与逼真的虚拟患者互动，而不用担心出错。 In what’s being claimed as a world first by the people involved, medical students in Cambridge are using holograms to better prepare themselves for real-life situations. 剑桥的一些医科学生们正在利用全息影像为更好地应对现实中的场景做准备，相关人士将这一培训称为世界首例。 It’s called…

考古学家在英国威尔士发现了有记录以来最早的野火证据。这个证据以烧焦残余物的形式存在于极为古老的泥岩中。 Go back to what’s known as the Silurian Period and Earth looked very different from today. What is now the UK, would’ve been south of the Equator. A few…

新规定出台后，在西班牙港口城市维戈海滨游泳的人若在海里小便，则可能被处以数百英镑的罚款。 It’s unclear how exactly this rule banning unwanted drops in the ocean will be enforced. But the new decree states that anyone caught in the act of physiological evacuation…

这是生物学领域最雄心勃勃的项目之一：科学家们想为英国和爱尔兰发现的每一种有机体 DNA 测序。 The project called the Darwin Tree of Life is an immense undertaking. Scientists are collecting the DNA from every species of animal, plants and fungi as well…

在数不清的数据线中翻找与设备相匹配的充电器的日子可能即将结束。欧盟暂时达成协议：到2024年秋季，新的便携式电子设备必须配备 USB-C 端口充电器。 The idea of a common phone charger has been talked about for years. Now it finally looks set to come into force. This provisional agreement means that…

你要是想观赏生活在英国的蝴蝶，那可得快点了。英国蝴蝶保护协会（Butterfly Conservation）的一份报告警告说，58种蝴蝶中有24种可能很快就会从英国消失。 The modern world is not proving to be kind to our butterflies. The wild grasslands and sunny woodland clearings, where they once fluttered and thrived, have to a…

（本节目所用的音频资源于2022年5月发表。） 美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的 “毅力号”（Perseverance）漫游探测器在火星的任务迎来了一个重要时刻。 This is the sound of Nasa’s Perseverance rover hard at work on the surface of the Red Planet. It landed on Mars 15 months ago. Since then,…

加湾鼠海豚是世界上最稀有的海洋哺乳动物。一项基因研究显示，这个濒危物种仍有望免于灭绝，尽管野生的加湾鼠海豚总数只剩10来头。 The tiny, silvery porpoise known as the vaquita is facing an existential threat from becoming entangled and killed in fishing nets. And with fewer than a dozen vaquitas left…

在公开赞同由球迷主导的男足审查报告所提出的建议后，英国政府表示将设立一个独立的足球监管机构。该监管机构将有权制裁违反财务及其它条例的英格兰足球俱乐部。 Whether it’s clubs such as Bury going bust, Derby’s current financial problems or the ‘big six’ wanting to form a breakaway super league, the government’s view is football needs…

英国国家信托基金会（National Trust）开展的研究显示，果园正在从景观中消失，自1900年来，其消失的面积大小相当于怀特岛（the Isle of Wight）。 Apple and other fruit trees are among the first to bloom, but according to the National Trust, this burst of spring blossom is becoming a…

科学家表示，他们已经确定了尿液细菌与恶性前列腺肿瘤之间的关联。专家希望，这一研究成果可能为发现甚至预防危险的前列腺肿瘤提供新的方法。 Bacterial infection is known to play a part in the development of some other cancers in the body, such as the stomach and bowel. And now researchers believe they…

麻鳽是英国叫声最响亮的鸟。这种鸟几乎两度从英国消失不见，但现在其数量正在恢复。英国皇家鸟类保护协会（The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds）的报告说，2021年统计有228只雄性麻鳽，是 “破纪录的一年”，与2019年的209只相比有所增加。 The boom of a male bittern doesn’t come from his voice box. Unlike other birds, he uses muscles around his windpipe…

一项研究表明，英国乡下的刺猬数量仍在持续 “急剧下降”。 There are now stark differences emerging between urban and rural hedgehogs. 现在，英国城市和乡下的刺猬数量出现了明显的差异。 This State of Britain’s Hedgehogs report suggests that rural areas are becoming less suitable for the…

一项新研究表明，随着全球变暖，日益频发的野火可能会减缓臭氧层的恢复。 The study found the Australian bushfires two years ago were so intense that smoke rose into the atmosphere, causing a complex set of chemical reactions that led to the…

（本节目所用的音频资源于2022年3月发表。） 美国航空航天局（NASA）首次推出新巨型月球火箭。该飞行器被称作 “太空发射系统（Space Launch System, SLS）”，它被带到佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心的 39B 号发射台上进行模拟倒计时演习。 They call it the Space Launch System, or SLS, and it’s a colossus. More powerful than the Apollo-era rockets, this new vehicle…