经济学人: 回收:塑料公路 (2)

If all goes well, the inventors hope to develop the idea and make the sections entirely from recycled plastic. 如果一切顺利，那么投资者希望开发此想法并完全利用回收垃圾制造这些节段。 Paths, car parks and railway plat

经济学人: 回收:塑料公路 (3)

Cleaning and sorting plastic made out of multiple polymers can be relatively expensive, 清理和将多种聚合物制成的塑料进行分类的成本相对昂贵， especially if it is used to make low value products such as packaging. 尤其是这些

经济学人:页岩气 增加了开采压力

Shale gas 页岩气 Raise the pressure 增加了开采压力 Government dithering keeps frackers above ground 政府仍就是否批准开采页岩气犹豫不决 Inflated concerns 担心通胀 FOR all the debate about it, Britain's shale-gas industry

经济学人: 海洋生物的隐身斗篷 (2)

The deep ocean has other sources of light than astronomical bodies, though. 除了天体，深海还有其他光源。 Three-quarters of marine organisms off the coast of California produce their own, and that is probably true in most oceans, 加利福

经济学人: 海洋生物的隐身斗篷 (1)

THE ocean is dark and full of terrors, and the black dragonfish is the darkest of them all. 海洋中充满黑暗与恐惧，黑色的深海龙鱼是其中最黑暗的生物。 Its surface, new measurements reveal, is as black as the blackest materia

经济学人:寻找新抗生素:巨蜥血的48种功效(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Finding new antibiotics: The 48 uses of dragon's blood 寻找新抗生素：巨蜥血的48种功效 Komodo dragons could be the source for a new generation of antibiotics 科莫多巨蜥可成为新一代抗生素的来源

经济学人:寻找新抗生素:巨蜥血的48种功效(2)

With that in mind, and working with the St Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida, Dr Bishop obtained fresh Komodo dragon blood. 有了这种想法，Bishop博士和弗罗里达圣奥古斯丁的短吻鳄农场动物园合作，获得了新

经济学人170:替代医疗 往好处想

Science and technology 科学技术 Alternative medicine 替代医疗 Think yourself better 往好处想 Alternative medical treatments rarely work. But the placebo effect they induce sometimes does 替代疗法的治疗效果见效甚微，但是所产

经济学人245:诚实是需要时间的

Science and technology 科学技术 The psychology of morality 道德心理学 Time to be honest 诚实是需要时间的 A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness 一个简单的实验却为我们提供了一种鼓励诚实的途径

经济学人252:北极气候变化 仓惶撤退

Science and technology 科技报道 Climate change in the Arctic 北极气候变化 Beating a retreat 仓惶撤退 Arctic sea ice is melting far faster than climate models predict. Why? 北极海冰正在以比气候模型所预测的快得多的速度

经济学人241:气候变化 终于来了好消息?

Science and technology 科学技术 Climate change 气候变化 Good news at last? 终于来了好消息？ The climate may not be as sensitive to carbon dioxide as previously believed 气候对二氧化碳的敏感性可能低于先前的预期 CLIM

经济学人166:清道夫平菇

Science and technology 科学技术 Bioremediation 生物降解 Bottom feeders 清道夫平菇 A novel way of dealing with an unpleasant problem 解决烦人难题的新颖方法 For your delight and delectation 愿你欢愉 DESPITE their name, dispo

经济学人126:红酒过敏 酒鬼们的烦恼

Science and Technology Allergy to wine The oenophile's lament 科技 红酒过敏 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 people get sn

经济学人294:寒武纪大爆发 动物王国出现

Science and technology 科学技术 The Cambrian explosion 寒武纪大爆发 Kingdom come 动物王国出现 Chinese palaeontologists hope to explain the rise of the animals 中国古生物学家希望解释动物的起源 AMONG the mysteries of evo

经济学人61:用于油井的太阳热能

Science and Technology 科技 Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热能 Mirrors in glasshouses 温室的反光镜... can be used to heat stones ...能用于加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (1)

WRITERS of science fiction have long assumed that the galaxy is teeming with alien planets. 科幻小说的作家们一直都认为星系中存在异形星球。 They were correct, but it was only in the past few decades that science has been able to

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (2)

That was intriguing enough for them to be awarded a chunk of coveted observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope, to take a closer look. 这对他们来说足够令人着迷，因为他们可以获得大量观测时间，用哈勃空间望远镜进行

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (3)

That would give them a better sense of just how massive it is. 这将让他们更好的感知这个物体有多么的巨大。 There maybe more to come. The two researchers think they have found a second promising target lurking in Kepler's data. 或许

经济学人: 不会飞的甲壳虫如何海上航行

Pachyrhynchus weevils are found on most islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean. If these weevils could fly, that would not be surprising. But they cannot. 在东太平洋的大部分岛屿中都发现了球背象鼻虫。如果这些象鼻虫会飞的话

经济学人: 开普勒 R.I.P (1)

It used to be that finding even one new planet was enough to make an astronomer's career. 曾经即便是找到一颗新卫星都足以成就一名天文学家的事业。 Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, who these days has, among o