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一项对北太平洋虎鲸的研究表明，虎鲸母亲为儿子做出 “终身牺牲”。 The sound of a very close bond. A killer whale mother and son surfacing together, because in orca family life, offspring stay by their mother’s side into adulthood.…
根据科学家对遗骨的分析，从斯堪的纳维亚航行到英国的维京人带来了马、狗甚至可能还有猪等动物。 Archaeologists were excavating Britain’s largest Scandinavian cremation mounds when they found the animal remains mixed in with humans. By using a technique called strontium isotope analysis, the scientists from…
科学家们训练蚂蚁识别尿液中的气味变化，以帮助他们了解测试对象是否患癌症。 The researchers from Sorbonne Paris Nord University say they were surprised by how efficient and reliable the ants were in sniffing out cancer. 70 ants belonging to the species…
沉船船骸共有近2500块碎片，船身长30米，重25吨，这艘船被称为 “世界上最大三维拼图”。经过20年的精心修复，考古学家现在终于可以开始重新拼装在南威尔士河岸发现的一艘15世纪沉船。 At 30 metres long, weighing 25 tonnes, it’s thought this salvage wreck, found in 2002, was built around 1449 from Basque-country wood and was involved in the lucrative…
英国政府已证实，英格兰地区将禁止使用塑料餐具、餐盘和聚苯乙烯托盘等一次性物品。英国环境大臣特雷丝·科菲说，此举将有助于保护环境，造福后代。 Each person in England gets through an average of 18 single-use plastic plates and 37 plastic items of cutlery every year, according to government figures. Just ten per cent…
人们认为来自伦敦的一位家具管理员解开了冰河时期洞穴壁画里一系列标记的谜团。此发现有助于理解为什么当时的狩猎采集者会画洞穴壁画。 Archaeologists have long puzzled over series of dots, lines, and marks shaped like a letter ‘Y’, placed on or near the often-beautiful depictions of Palaeolithic animals in European caves…
一项新研究显示，英国森林锁住的导致全球变暖的碳是此前认为的两倍。这项使用激光和三维扫描的研究表明，古树在应对气候变化中起到的作用尤为关键。 Professor Kim Calders from Ghent University is laser-scanning what’s said to be the UK’s most scientifically studied forest: Wytham Wood in Oxfordshire. For their research, he and his colleagues…
本节目所用的音频资源发表于2022年12月中旬。 近日，一颗重要的欧洲卫星已被送入预定轨道。气象卫星 “Meteosat-12” 搭乘阿丽亚娜火箭从法属圭亚那的库鲁航天发射中心起飞，开启了天气预报的新时代。 The value to society of satellite meteorology is immense. In terms of lives saved and infrastructure damage that’s avoided, the returns on investment run into billions…
最新一项研究表明，在极端温度下工作的孕妇，热应激可能会对她们腹中的胎儿产生影响。其影响包括胎儿心率加快和脐带血流减慢。 This study monitored pregnant women who were working in rice fields in The Gambia. They were farming in direct sun for between two to eight hours, often in high…
新试验发现首个减缓阿尔茨海默病对患者大脑损伤的药物，这个名为 “lecanemab” 的药物 “意义重大”。这项试验的结果为此领域几十年的高失败率画上句号，并表明用药物治疗阿尔茨海默病（最常见的失智症）的新时代并非遥不可及。 News of the first drug that can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s has been called historic and prompted huge excitement among researchers and charities. The manufacturer…
一副恐龙化石骨架的复制模型将于新年来到伦敦展出，这头恐龙可能是有史以来在陆地上行走的最大的动物。 Dinosaur skeletons are always a big draw, and the Natural History Museum will showcase next year the biggest of the lot. 恐龙骨架一直是吸引众人前来参观的一大亮点，而伦敦自然历史博物馆明年将展出最大的一副恐龙骨架模型。 Patagotitan’s fossils were unearthed in Argentina in…
体育科学家们发表文章强调，目前市场上缺乏专为女性设计的足球装备。他们说，使用专为男球员设计的球靴和足球可能会增加女球员受伤的风险。 The profile and popularity of women’s football has soared in recent years. But most products are still predominantly designed for men. This even includes football boots. 近年来，女子足球的受关注程度和人气都大幅上升。但大多数足球产品仍主要为男性设计，其中还包括足球靴。 Women’s feet…
研究人员在实验室里培养出的脑细胞已经学会玩20世纪70年代模拟乒乓球比赛的电子游戏《乓》（Pong）。研究人员表示，他们培养出的 “迷你大脑” 能感知并对周围环境作出反应。 Pong was one of the very first computer games. Released in 1972, it involves keeping a dot in play by sliding a paddle on each side of…
英国国家歌剧院将把总部搬到伦敦以外的地方，并大幅削减预算，这是英国政府计划对国内艺术机构经费进行重大调整的一部分。 Over recent years, English National Opera has received around 12 million pounds a year from the Arts Council – around twice what it gets in box office receipts. 近年来，英国国家歌剧院每年从英格兰艺术委员会（Arts…
（本节目所用的音频资源发表于2022年10月下旬。） 最新数据显示，英国超市售卖的意大利面、茶、薯条和食用油的价格飙升。其中，植物油的价格在一年内上涨了65%。英国国家统计局（The Office for National Statistics）表示，总体看来，截至9月份，超市售卖的廉价食品价格在这一年度上涨了17%。 Earlier this year, the ONS started to look at the most basic, cheapest food on the supermarket shelves. 今年早些时候，英国国家统计局开始关注超市货架上最基本、最便宜的食品。 The latest data shows vegetable…