Science and technology 科学和技术 Pesticides 农药 Smoking them out 把它们熏死 Tobacco extracts protect plants from pests and pathogens 烟草提取物可用于植物病虫害 THERE are, as Paracelsus put it, no poisonsonly poisonous doses

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Science and technology 科学与技术 Policing 治安 The aftershocks of crime 犯罪余震 An idea borrowed from seismology may help to predict criminal activity. 从地震学上获取的灵感或许能预测犯罪行为。 LOS ANGELES is one of th

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Science and technology 科学和技术 Allergy to wine 红酒过敏 The oenophile's lament 酒鬼们的烦恼 An explanation for a most unfortunate condition. 这件不幸的事现在有解释了。 ONE of lifes sadder statistics is that about 8% of

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Science and technology 科学与技术 Sexual selection 性选择 Hunkier than thou 强于汝 Scientists are finally succeeding where so many men have failed: in understanding why women find some guys handsome and others hideous. 科学家终于发现女

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Sicience and technology 科学和技术 Cancer and obesity 癌症与肥胖 Malignant flab 恶性松弛 At last, an understanding of how overeating causes cancer 吃得过多如何导致癌症 OVERWEIGHT women are more likely to develop breast cancer

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Science and technology 科学与技术 The fight against AIDS 对抗艾滋病 HIV's slow retreat 艾滋病的缓慢退却 One of the world's worst plagues is giving ground 抗击艾滋病:显现曙光 THE timing of the pope's much-discussed change

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Science and technology 科学与技术 Splay-footed, not flat-footed 不是扁平足而是八字足 A new fossil shows that evolution does not always mean change 新发现的化石显示,进化并不总意味着变化 Palaeontology 古生物学 The

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Science and technology 科学和技术 Medical technology 医疗技术 A not-so-hard graft 一个不那么难的移植 Transplantable blood vessels can now be grown as desired 可移植的血管现可随意培育 The old-fashioned way 古老的方式

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Science and technology 科学技术 Collective behavior 集体行为 Follow my leader 跟领导走 A group's intelligence depends in part on its members'ignorance 群体智慧部分依赖于群体成员的愚昧 HUMAN beings like to think of themselv

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Science and technology 科学技术 Going underground 向地底进军 A project to reveal more about all the carbon on Earth 旨在向人们揭示更多地球碳信息的项目 The Deep Carbon Observatory 深碳观测站 A world still full of secrets

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Technology catalog 科学技术 Caught in a BEAR hug 落入BEAR怀抱 Robotics: A newly designed robot can recover casualties from battlefields, 机器人技术:一种新型机器人能够从战场上救回伤员, and might also be able to make i

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Technology catalog 科学技术 Bright sparks 生气勃勃者 Innovation Awards:We invite nominations for our annual prizes recognising successful innovators in seven categories 创新奖:我们邀请在七个领域中有成功创新的作为我们年

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Science and technology 科学技术 Premarital sex 婚前性行为 The waiting game 等待的游戏 Chastity before marriage may have its uses after all 婚前守贞可能的确有作用 WHEN is it the right time to do the deed? 什么时候做爱做的

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Healthy living 健康生活 Mind and body 身与心 The reason loneliness could be bad for your health 孤独会对你的健康不利的原因 SCIENCE has many uses, but it doesn't often produce handy pick-up lines. 科学有很多用处,但是它通

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Science and technology 科学技术 Mimicry 模仿 The first sparrowhawk of spring 春天第一只雀鹰 To obtain better access to warbler nests, cuckoos mimic raptors 为了更好地抢占莺的巢穴,杜鹃通常会模仿成猛禽的样子 THE r

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Science and technology 科学技术 Palaeontology 古生物学 Remember the tooth 齿状物所记 A link is made in an ancient ecosystem 古生态系统的一环 WHO ate whom in the food chains of the past is rarely clear. 过去的食物链中谁吃谁

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Science and technology 科学技术 Animal behaviour 动物行为 Drip-feeding 滴定进食 Ecology raids the techniques of chemistry 生态学里应用上了化学技术。 Time to change restaurant 该换家馆子了。 BIOLOGISTS are sometimes acc

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Technology Catalog 技术前沿 Towering Beauty 高耸的美丽 A new way of transmitting electricity may soon be coming to a field near you 输电新法可能很快推出 A PYLON is supposed to be a beautiful thing. In ancient Egypt, pairs of taperi

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Science and technology 科学技术 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 克雅氏病 Breaking down the barrier 攻破屏障 A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions 药物治疗朊病毒感染疾病的一线希望 THE epidemic of mad-c

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Of all the plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10% has been recycled. 20世纪50年代以来,产生的所有塑料中,只有不到10%得到回收。 The vast majority ends up being dumped, most of it in landfill. 其中大部分都成了垃

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