Science in Japan 日本科学界 Stress test 压力测试 After a scandal, a renowned stem-cell scientist commits suicide 爆出丑闻后,一位大名鼎鼎的干细胞科学家自杀 Dr Sasai faces the music 聚光镜前的笹井博士 WHAT happen
Artificial intelligence and psychology 人工智能和心理学 The computer will see you now 现在电脑能给你看病了 A virtual shrink may sometimes be better than the real thing 有时候,虚拟缩小版反而比实际事物更好 ELLIE is
Science and technology 科学技术 Biometrics 计量测定学 Clocking people's clocks 识别人们的行踪 Facial-recognition systems are getting better 面部识别系统愈发完善 WITH some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that tha
Astrophysics 天体物理 Dust to dust 尘归尘,土归土 A dramatic recent discovery in physics is looking rather dodgy 近期,物理学中的一项戏剧性发现看上出非常模糊 IN MARCH Chao-Lin Kuo, an astrophysicist at Stanford Univer
Science and technology 科学技术 Embryonic stem cells 胚胎干细胞 Looking up 进展中的干细胞研究 Stem-cell research is now bearing fruit 干细胞研究开始结出硕果 FOURTEEN years ago James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin
German politics 德国政治 Gone boy on the right 消失的极右领袖 How an anti-foreigner, anti-establishment group is changing German politics 一个反移民、反伊斯兰化组织如何改变德国政治 Bachmann: only joking, honest 巴赫曼
Technology Quarterly 科技季刊 Technology Quarterly on language: Brain scan: Terry Winograd 科技季刊:脑部扫描:特里威诺格拉德 The Winograd Schema tests computers' understanding of the real world. Winograd模式测试计算机对真
In 2011 Hector Levesque of the University of Toronto became annoyed by systems that passed the Turing Test by joking and avoiding direct answers. 2011年多伦多大学Hector Levesque对那些靠开玩笑和不直接回答问题通过图灵测试的系
Science and Technology: Solar physics and paleontology: Set in stone 科技:太阳物理和古生物学:石事求是 An ancient forest reveals the suns behaviour 290m years ago. 远古树木向人们揭示二亿九千万年前的太阳活动情况。
They have been able to apply the tree-ring method to petrifiedtrunks from a nearby fossil forest. 他们能够将判断树年轮的方式应用在附近石化森林的一颗石化的树木上。 This forest (imagined in an artists impression above) w
Science and technology: Panda genetics 科技:熊猫遗传学 Hey dude. Give me six! 嘿,伙计。用六指击个掌吧! Two strange mammals illuminate the process of natural selection. 两种不同的哺乳动物阐明自然选择的过程。
Pregnancy, then, does indeed do things to a womans brain. 那么怀孕确实对母亲的大脑有影响。 But what exactly those things mean is hard to tease out. 但是具体对大脑有什么影响很难弄清。 Neuroscientists do not really unde
Much came from western Europe. 大部分利润来自欧洲西部。 It counts as a rare bright light for corporate Turkey. 这对于土耳其公司来说是一次极为珍贵的机会。 Its Beko brand of kitchen and other appliances is among the mos
Autism 自闭症 Why it's not Rain Woman 为什么它不是雨女 Women have fewer cognitive disorders than men do because their bodies are better at ignoring the mutations which cause them 与男性相比,患有认知障碍的女性较少,因为她
MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and 1996. Since then men who owe their or their familys
The world this week-Business 本周经济要闻 Federal air-accident investigators began looking into what caused a spaceplane owned by Virgin Galactic to explode over the Mojave desert during a test flight, 联邦航空事故调查员已对此展开调
A public spat between two warring and wildly popular Chinese apps has had the feel of a teenage dance-off. 两个中国热门app之间的公开口水战有一种小朋友之间斗舞的感觉。 Sorry, Douyin Fans, ran an article from the short video
Polygraphs 测谎仪 Lies, damn lies 谎话连篇 Scientifically dodgy lie-detector tests may prove surprisingly useful 科学的测谎仪可能惊人的有用 POLYGRAPHS, or lie detectors, make frequent appearances on The Jeremy Kyle Show, a televis
PorcFest and the Free State Project 豪猪自由节和自由州项目 Anarchists get organised 无政府主义者组织起来了 The plot to liberate New Hampshire 策划解放新罕布什尔州 A YOUNG man in a leather loincloth saunters past a woma
Science and technology: Neuroscience: Brain mater 科技:神经科学:脑膜 Scanning reveals what pregnancy does to a mothers brain. 扫描揭示了怀孕对母亲大脑的影响。 As any parent will tell you, once you have had children nothing
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