本期内容: Eli Lilly said that a clinical trial for a new drug to slow the onset of Alzheimers had failed. The drug, solanezumab, was tested on patients with mild cases of Alzheimers, who showed only a slight improvement after 18 months of treat

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本期内容: Coca-Cola rediscovered some fizz. Its fourth-quarter profits rose by 60%, year-on-year, to $1.2 billion. A cost-cutting programme set out in 2014 seems to be paying off. It also shifted 3% more drink, but revenue fell by 8%, to $10 bi

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本期内容: The World Health Organisation warned that Zika, a mosquito-borne virus linked to brain deformation in human fetuses, is likely to spread to every country in the Americas except Canada and Chile. Brazil has reported 3,893 cases of micr

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本期内容: Applehasbecometheworld'sfirstpubliccompanytobeworth$1trillion.SincetheiPhonefirstwentonsalein2007,Appleshareshavesoaredby1,100%andhavejumpedalmostathirdinthepastyear.Appletracesitsoriginstothegarageofco-founderSteveJobsin1976andwasini

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本期内容: Luckin Coffee, a Chinese chain that has become the country's first coffee shop valued at $1bn, says it is not worried about profits as it moves to challenge US rival Starbucks' dominant position in the country's fast-growing market. S

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本期内容: Video streaming service Netflix is the world's most data-hungry application, consuming 15% of global net traffic, according to research from bandwidth management company Sandvine. Video in general accounts for more than half of net tr

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本期内容: Young people's love of fast fashion is coming under the scrutiny of Britain's law-makers. MPs say the fashion industry is a major source of the greenhouse gases that are overheating the planet. Discarded clothes are also piling up in

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本期内容: When historians look back on the summer of 2018, they will talk about the record-breaking heatwave, the World Cup and Levi's T-shirts. On the train, in the park, at the art gallery; they are everywhere. Levi's says that revenues from

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本期内容: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in enzyme research. Americans Frances Arnold and George P Smith will share the prize with Briton Gregory Winter, who is based at Cambridge Un

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本期内容: Friday's catastrophic tsunami event on Sulawesi Island is a puzzle. As the emergency response gathers pace, scientists are scratching their heads to understand why it generated such big waves. The quake was what geophysicists call a s

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本期内容: Tokyo's world-famous Tsukiji fish market has held its final pre-dawn tuna auction before being relocated to a new site. The world's largest fish market, which has been in operation for 83 years, is being moved as part of the redevelop

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本期内容: Prince Harry and Meghan kicked off their shoes and went barefoot on Bondi Beach, as they continued their tour of Australia and New Zealand. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met surfing community group OneWave, as they took part in Fluro

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本期内容: Couldchipfathelpdirtyshippingcleanupitsact? Theglobalshippingindustryisasbigacontributortogreenhousegasemissionsasaviation, andtheheavyfueloilthatpowersitsgiantvesselsisexceptionallydirty-packedwithsoot, blackcarbonandsulphur.InSeptem

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本期内容: For many Canadians, the idea of legal cannabis once seemed a pipe dream. But from 17 October, Canada will become the first G7 country to give recreational cannabis the green light. Supporters say legalisation will bring new medical ad

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本期内容: 13 female cyclists completed the 2018 Tour de France over the same mountains on the same 3,351-kilometer (2,082-mile) route before the men do. What these amateur female cyclists hope for, instead of winning the trophy, is recognition,

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本期内容: SharesinAlphabet,Google'sparentcompany,jumpedasmuchas5%inafter-hourstradingafterthefirmreportedstrongeradsalesthanexpected. Alphabetearned$32bninrevenueinthethreemonthstotheendofJune,up26%fromthesameperiodlastyear. Buttherecord4bneuro

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本期内容: How much you sweat doesn't necessarily correlate with the intensity of your workout. It is due to a number of factors, including gender (men tend to sweat more than women) and age (younger people sweat more than older people) as well

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本期内容: A competition helping to drive development of the futuristic hyperloop transport system has been won by engineering students from Munich. The hyperloop idea involves passengers in pods travelling at very high speeds down sealed tunnel

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本期内容: Supermarket sales have grown at their fastest rate this year with demand stimulated by the World Cup and the warm weather, research suggests. Market research firm Kantar Worldpanel said food and drink sales in the 12 weeks to 15 July

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本期内容: Fans of Downton Abbey can breathe a sigh of reliefa film of the hugely successful TVseries has finally been confirmed after much speculation. Theoriginal principal cast will begin production later this summer,the film's producers said

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