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乌干达的野生黑猩猩被观察到以多种方式使用药草，以治疗开放性伤口及其它创伤。牛津大学的科学家与布东戈森林的本地团队合作，拍摄并记录下了黑猩猩们用植物为自己或同伴进行急救的画面。 In some of the footage researchers have captured, an adult male dabs a wound with a leaf from a plant that’s also gathered by local people for medicinal use.…

28 岁的克里斯·布鲁克斯史密斯曾经一度生活在恐惧之下，担心哪怕吃下极少量的花生就会因过敏致死。在他报名参与一项预防过敏反应的新方法的试验之后，他的生活终于发生了改变。 The method used, known as oral immunotherapy, has already been successful in children and babies with peanut allergies. But it wasn’t clear if adult allergies, which are more…

科学家发现，世界上最濒危的两栖动物之一，长相奇异、永远微笑着的墨西哥钝口螈，也叫美西螈，在被放归于人工湿地后能够茁壮成长。 There are hundreds of thousands of Mexican axolotls in laboratories and home aquariums around the world, studied for their remarkable ability to regrow any lost limb. But in their…

据科学家称，有城市般大小、宽度可能达到数十公里的冰山曾漂浮在英国近海。研究人员发现了这些漂流的冰山留下的独特刮痕。 Scientists found the deep tracks left by these icebergs by looking at energy companies’ seismic surveys of the North Sea. It showed icebergs the size of Norwich were once…

尽管自然界的许多物种具备使牙齿反复再生的能力，但人类只有一次换牙期，长出一口健康恒牙的机会也只有一次。不过现在，这个情况或将改变。 Researchers from King’s College and Imperial College developed a material that mimics the environment needed for tooth development, allowing cells to send signals and begin forming a tooth. 伦敦国王学院和帝国理工大学的研究人员研发出了一种模拟牙齿生长环境的材料，这种材料可以促使细胞发出信号并开始形成牙齿。…

根据智库 Ember 发布的一份新报告，2024 年，全球清洁能源发电占比超 40%。但与此同时，导致全球变暖的二氧化碳排放量也上升到了历史最高水平。炎热的天气在推高能源需求总量。 The amount of the world’s electricity generated by solar panels continues to rise sharply to nearly 7% of global supply. 全球太阳能电池板的发电量继续大幅上升，达到了全球电力供应量的近 7%。 China is at…

一项研究发现，超过一半的英国蝴蝶物种的种群数量长期以来呈下降趋势。公益组织英国蝴蝶监测计划（UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme）称，自该组织 1976 年开始监测蝴蝶种群数量至今，受监测的 59 个品种中有 31 个品种的种群数量都出现了下降。 Once-common butterflies, like the small tortoiseshell, the chalkhill blue and the small copper, had their worst year ever in 2024.…

科学家在蒙古戈壁沙漠发现了一种罕见的新两指恐龙。虽然这种恐龙长有锋利的长爪，但科学家认为它们并不是凶猛的掠食者。 Therizinosaurs lumbered around the Earth on their hind legs tens of millions of years ago. Some researchers have likened them to giant feathered sloths. Every species discovered so far…

科学家们发现，我们对推动着宇宙膨胀的神秘能量 “暗能量” 的认识可能正在发生改变，甚至挑战我们对时间和空间的理解方式。其中一些科学家认为，他们可能即将迎来这一代天文学研究最重大的发现之一。 The discovery of Dark Energy in 1998 was in itself a shocking discovery. Up until then, the view had been that after the Big Bang, the expansion…

世界上最大的冰山在偏远的英国南乔治亚岛附近的浅水区搁浅，目前冰山所在的南乔治亚岛是数百万企鹅和海豹的家园。这座冰山的面积约为大伦敦的两倍，它似乎已经彻底搁浅，并且会在南乔治亚岛的西南沿岸开始解体。 The ice megalith had been drifting since December, when it entered warmer waters known as Iceberg Alley. 这个巨大的冰块从去年十二月起就在海上漂流，当时它进入了一片被称为 “冰山走廊” 的温暖水域。 It has now hit the continental shelf off South…

预计到 2050 年，全世界超过一半的成年人以及三分之一的儿童、青少年及年轻成年人将超重或肥胖。这一结论出自一项对全球数据的新研究，这项发表在英国知名医学杂志《柳叶刀》上的研究覆盖了来自全球超过 200 个国家的数据。 What’s described as one of the most comprehensive global studies of the rise in unhealthy weights, published in the journal The Lancet, makes for grim…

在一名年轻男子死于维苏威火山喷发近 2000 年后，科学家们发现他的大脑被温度极高的火山灰云变成了玻璃并保存了下来。 A human brain turned to glass by a volcano… It sounds like bad science fiction. And when archaeologists first found glass fragments inside a skull in ancient…

科学家发现，即使在棺椁中存放了 5000 年，古埃及的木乃伊仍然能散发出香味。 In air extracted from sarcophagi sealed for thousands of years, researchers in Cairo detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes and also hints of smoke, mould, flowers…

世界雪橇犬锦标赛于每年一月和二月间举行。2025 年的锦标赛刚刚在瑞典厄斯特松德落幕。来自 22 个国家的 150 多名参赛者和 1000 多只雪橇犬参与了为期三天的比赛。作为一个非职业体育项目，这个赛事没有设立奖金。 With sub-zero temperatures and heaps of snow as far as the eye can see, this is as close as you can get…

全球首个针对校园手机禁令效果的研究结果显示，禁用手机和学生的成绩或心理健康之间并没有显著关联。 This is the first scientific study to compare schools with different smartphone policies. The researchers studied the habits of more than 1,200 teenagers in 20 schools which banned smartphones,…