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科学家们现在有足够的数据来描绘世界上最大冰山 A23a 的实际规模。卫星测量数据显示，这块冰的平均厚度刚超过280米。 Imagine a field of ice more than twice the area of Greater London, but as thick as its skyscrapers are tall. This is A23a, current title holder…

考古学家们在英格兰多塞特郡侏罗纪海岸的悬崖上发现了一只巨型海洋古生物的头骨化石。 The two-metre-long skull of the pliosaur is exquisitely preserved. Its crocodile-like snout is filled with dozens of razor-sharp teeth, and huge holes in its jaws would have been packed…

研究人员在宇宙中发现了一个 “完美的太阳系”，它是在没有发生剧烈碰撞的条件下形成的。而地球所在的太阳系正是因为在形成时发生剧烈碰撞而成为了由不同大小的行星构成的大杂烩。新发现的行星系统距离地球100光年，由六颗大小基本一致的行星构成。这些行星自120亿年前形成以来几乎没有发生过改变。 Our solar system had a violent beginning. Worlds crashed into each other as they formed, disturbing their orbits and eventually leading to the planets of vastly different sizes…

蓝鲸是地球上体型最庞大的动物。在印度洋的一片水域，它们曾因捕鲸活动而几乎灭绝，而几十年后，这片水域的蓝鲸数量已经恢复。 The deep very low frequency song of the blue whale is difficult for us to hear. Depending on what device you’re listening on, it might be too low for…

科学家们设计了一种只凭手腕运动就可以抓握物体的机械手。这只由英国剑桥大学研究团队研发的3D打印机械手中被放置了传感器，从而能够 “感知” 它所触摸的物体。 Researchers say their robotic hand can handle items that are currently too delicate for machines. The hand uses wrist movements and has sensors that developers liken to…

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. The first…

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 the large barrel…

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 England, but the funding students can borrow to cover living…

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 water…

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, and is watched by…

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 a novelist, poet and children’s author, he then…

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 that they’re much older than previously thought – 6,200 years…

（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 as last year. What’s different is that the…

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, made by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland,…

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 you can see and recognise…