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What's the first thing yout do when your family gets to your hotel room? Several recent studies suggest it might be a good idea to pull out a package of antibacterial wipes and give your room a quick once-over. 当你和家人入住酒店时，第一件

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But within hours, and while she was still in the hospital, Monica developed a fever and pain caused by a fast-moving bacteria. She was dying, so they took some organs to save her, but the bacteria had spread, so the doctors came in and said to her, W

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Now a Bristol University dental scientist has discovered that a common bacteria responsible for tooth decay and gum disease can break out into the bloodstream and help blood clots to form. 最近英国布里斯托尔大学科学家经研究发现，一

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Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuff in itthe Sun, the planets and their m

粉碎12个食物谣言：从三秒规则到睡前能否吃芝士

Almost half of us think food can only be frozen the day we buy it and 38% think you cant refreeze cooked meat. 我们当中有接近一半的人都认为食物只能在购买当天冷藏，38%的人则认为熟肉制品不宜冷藏。 According to a

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There is nothing as romantic as two lovers sharing a kiss. 恋人之间相互接吻是一件多么美妙浪漫的事情啊。 But scientists have come up with an evolutionary explanation which perhaps threatens to kill the passion. 但是科学家们最

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讲解 Today's key word is Yogurt Yogurt y-o-g-u-r-t 酸奶 It is a food produced through the bacterial 细菌的 fermentation发酵 of milk. Here is a very delicious example: I like to have a bowl of yogurt with fruit for my breakfast. 我早餐喜欢

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Ears are the natural sound detector of our body, they interpret the sound for our understanding. 耳朵是我们身体自然声音的侦查器，解析声音以便我们理解。 #1: Ears helps in Taste #1: 耳朵有助味觉 Were not saying that you

万物简史 第441期:小生物的世界(12)

In the early days, this was an exceedingly painstaking process. 早年，这是个极费力气的过程。 Work on a single bacterium could easily consume a year. 研究一个细菌就可能一下子花掉一年时间。 At that time, according to Wo

万物简史 第442期:小生物的世界(13)

A lot of little organisms that looked like bacteria and behaved like bacteria were actually something else altogether, 许多小生物看上去像细菌，表现得像细菌，实际上完全是另一类东西， something that had branched off from

万物简史 第450期:小生物的世界(21)

Precisely the same thing happens with meningitis. 脑膜炎的情况完全一样。 At least 10 percent of young adults, and perhaps 30 percent of teenagers, carry the deadly meningococcal bacterium, 至少有10%的年轻人和也许30%的少年携带着

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Soon one of these new strains, called Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, began to show up in hospitals. 过不多久，一种名叫抗甲氧苯青霉素葡萄球菌的新品种葡萄球菌开始在医院里出现。 Only one type of antibio

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Since then further research has shown that there is or may well be a bacterial component in all kinds of other disorders, 自那以来，进一步的研究表明，在所有别的疾病， heart disease, asthma, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, several

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With this ability to evolve rapidly goes another, even scarier advantage. 有了这种能力，另一种更加吓人的优势会很快产生。 Bacteria share information. Any bacterium can take pieces of genetic coding from any other. 细菌能共享信

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In 1997 scientists successfully activated some anthrax spores that had lain dormant for eighty years in a museum display in Trondheim, Norway. 1997年，科学家们成功地激活了已经在挪威特隆赫姆博物馆休眠了80年之久的一些炭疽

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48 Bacteria Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bac

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A lot of people love that fresh-dirt smell. The surprising thing, though, is that it isnt coming from the dirt itself. Microbiologists have traced the pleasant odor to an organic chemical called geosmin. A microbial geneticist named Keith Chater at t