经济学人:天气预报 欧洲人比美国人更擅长预测天气(上)

Science and technology Weather forecasting Continental divide 科学技术 天气预报 差距 Europeans do not just talk about the weather more than Americans do. 欧洲人不仅比美国人更喜欢谈论天气， They are better at forecasting it

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Dr Molnar s interest was piqued at a conference in 2013, Molnar博士的兴趣源于2013年的一次会议， when Karen Kinemuchi, another astronomer, presented some puzzling findings on a particular star seen by Kepler, a space telescope designed c

经济学人:天文学:新星诞生(1)

Science and Techonology 科技 Astronomy: De Nova Stella 天文学：新星诞生 Astronomers predict a Stella explosion will happen in 5 years time. 天文学家预测5年之内会发生一次星际爆炸 Amateur astronomers have a new date for thei

经济学人:授粉:为何雄蜂很差劲?(2)

It is a modified version of a commercially available robot quadcopter, 42mm across. (By comparison, a honeybee worker is about 15mm long.) 它就是市面上可以见到的那种四轴飞行器，只不过经过了改装，全长仅为42mm（相比之下

经济学人:授粉:为何雄蜂很差劲?(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Pollination: Why the bees sucks? 授粉：为何雄蜂很差劲？ Plans for artificial pollinators are afoot. 人造授粉者计划蓄势待发 It is, in one way, the ultimate drone. 人造雄蜂堪称终极的飞行利器

经济学人:性感吸引:我的化学浪漫(2)

Dr Hare and his colleagues took 43 men and 51 women, all of them straight, and gave them two tasks. Hare博士和他的同事们找了43名男性和51名女性，他们都是异性恋，给了他们两个任务。 One was to decide whether an androgy

经济学人:性感吸引:我的化学浪漫(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Sexual Attractiveness: My chemical romance 性感吸引：我的化学浪漫 Two putative human sex pheromones turn out not to be. 关于人类的两种性信息素的假说被证明是不成立的. For several decades b

经济学人:迁徙美洲:检查站(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Peopling the Americas: Checkpoint 迁徙美洲：检查站 The first migrants to the new world had to wait 8000 years to be admitted. 新大陆的第一批移民在8000年后才被公认。 How America was originally col

经济学人:空气污染:吹走它(2)

Another good candidate would be a government-run plant at Badarpur, less than 50km from the middle of Delhi. 另一个较好的选择便是位于巴达普（距德里市中心不到50千米）的官办工厂。 According to the Centre for Science and

经济学人:空气污染:吹走它(1)

Science and technology: Air pollution: Blown away 科技：空气污染：吹走它 Retired jet engines could help clear the smog that smothered big cities. 退役喷射发动机可以用来驱逐笼罩大城市的雾霾。 To land at Indira Gandhi A

经济学人:天气预报 欧洲人比美国人更擅长预测天气(下)

During its three weeks of operation, the new GFS remained outclassed. On a standard measurepredicting the altitude at which the atmospheric pressure is half as great as at sea levelit still trails the ECMWF model. 全球预报系统投入运行的三周

经济学人:分子生物学 蛋白质的奥秘(1)

Science and technology 科技 Molecular Biology: Folding Stuff 分子生物学：折叠 Shape determines a protein's function. Determining that shape, though, is tricky. 蛋白质的结构决定功能，而结构的形成却很难。 ABOUT 120,000 ty

经济学人:蜜蜂不喜健康植株爱病毒 意在帮宿主繁衍

Science and technology: Evolution: Bee kind to viruses 科学技术：进化：蜜蜂爱病毒 A strange tale of collaboration between plants, pathogens and insects. 植物、病毒和昆虫的奇特合作。 Cucumber mosaic virus is not restricted t

经济学人:空气污染来袭 如何保护我们的肺(下)

A further problem is that setting day-to-day limits is a local matter. 另一个问题是，每日的平均浓度限值是由当地定制的。 So, not only do they rarely take long-term risk into account, they also vary from place to place. 所以，这

经济学人:感染病毒时进食 感染细菌时禁食

Science and technology: Medical treatment: Feed a virus, starve a bacterium 科学与技术：医疗：感染病毒时进食，感染细菌时禁食 An old wives tale gets some support from medical science. 无稽之谈获医学证实。 Whether it i

经济学人:分子生物学 蛋白质的奥秘(2)

One of the leading researchers in the field of protein folding is David Baker of the University of Washington, in Seattle. 西雅图华盛顿大学的David Baker是蛋白质折叠领域研究者的领军人物之一。 For the past 20 years he and hi

经济学人:分子生物学 蛋白质的奥秘(3)

One common protein-contact prediction is that, if the side chain of one member of a pair of amino acids brought close together by folding is long, 一种比较普通的蛋白质接触预测就是，如果一对氨基酸的一个侧链折叠后很长，

经济学人:空气污染来袭 如何保护我们的肺(上)

Science and technology: Air-pollution: Breathtaking 科学与技术：空气污染：屏气吞声 Air-quality indices make pollution seem less bad than it is. 空气质量指数粉饰了空气污染情况。 Smoking a whole packet of cigarettes in a