英语听力：2013-12-25 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—15

As the bee is trying to find her way home, she is tracked by the radar. She flies on auto pilot 500 meters northwest. She gets to where she thinks the hives should be, but of course it's not there, she has to use a different navigation system to find

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-01 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—18

Lin has recently become R* spokesperson in the neonicotinoid debate.-The big advantage of neonicotinoids is that you can plant the seed already treated. It means the farmer doesn't have to spray. If you've got to spray, it's very expensive. It's got

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-08 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—21

This is one of the most important experiments taking place. The one that could help us understand the degree to which research done so far is relevant to bees in the wild.-So what we know so far? There's a good arguement for saying that diseases and

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-15 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—24

So more than a third of different kinds of bees that once lived in this woodland have now disappeared. What's intriguing here is that their immediate habitat has barely changed.-But what do you think is causing that? If their habitat here is friendly

英语听力：2013-10-11 地平线：黑洞吞噬—10

It's like trying to pick out an individual inside the middle of a busy city, with lights and cars, and things happening all around them. But that wasn't the only problem. Vast, swirling clouds of dust and gas prevent visible light from the centre of

英语听力：2013-10-09 地平线：黑洞吞噬—9

At last, astronomers had a map of our galaxy. A panorama of the Milky Way, it would never be possible to see from Planet Earth. 27,000 light-years from our solar system is the centre of our galaxy. If we were ever going to have a chance of seeing a b

英语听力：2013-09-27 地平线：黑洞吞噬—4

But if watching matter tumble over the edge of a black hole might now be possible, it is only because of the efforts of a generation of astronomers to wrestle these dark dragons of the cosmos into the realms of scientific reality. As is often the cas

英语听力：2013-09-18 地平线：黑洞吞噬—1

Nothing is more seductive than the unknown, nothing more compelling than a place of danger that lies beyond normal comprehension. Of all those places, perhaps the strangest of all are black holes. They are an exit point from the Universe, hidden trap

英语听力：2013-10-23 地平线：黑洞吞噬—15

It's clear that it will come very close to the black hole, might even hit the black hole. So maybe we actually are feeding the black hole here. Now exactly how much and how fast of all these is completely unknown and that's the excitement about it be

英语听力：2013-10-25 地平线：黑洞吞噬—16

To stare into the void of a black hole, to tumble through space before disappearing forever within it, it's the prospect of catching that unique moment that explains the excitement of this year's events. What happens to matter once it's been swallowe

英语听力：2013-10-30 地平线：黑洞吞噬—18

Here then is the strange paradox of black holes: the defeating black hole is anything but black. Just how greedy and bright a black hole can get is revealed by an aptly very ordinary looking galaxy called Cygnus A, some 650 million light years away.

英语听力：2013-11-01 地平线：黑洞吞噬—19

We now know this light is produced by the rotating disk of matter, spinning round the edge of the black hole at the heart of the Cygnus A galaxy, waiting to be devoured. It means that against all popular expectations, the brightest sources of light i

英语听力：2013-11-03 地平线：黑洞吞噬—20

The super bright quasar phase having ended many billions of years ago, when the fuel that fires violent emissions was completely consumed. But now, with the approaching gas cloud and a prospect of feeding, the black hole should get brighter. Exactly

英语听力：2013-11-06 地平线：黑洞吞噬—21

Far from being violentaions and destruction, it seems instead , black holes might actually be benign architects ,whichve played a part in the creation of the galaxies,stars,and even the life itself. One of the first scientists to begin to see black h

英语听力：2013-11-10 地平线：黑洞吞噬—23

There was now a pressing challenge to understand how black holes in their surrounding galaxies. To be so intertwined.，professor Andy Fabian in the Cambridge University is one astronomer who began to look. Like the ripples, they travel out from his

英语听力：2013-11-15 地平线：黑洞吞噬—25

Galaxies could in a way, be much bigger than they currently are. Something is stopping them growing larger and that something is the black hole at the center. Now this is bizarre because the ration of the size of the black hole to the size of the gal

英语听力：2013-11-17 地平线：黑洞吞噬—26

To walkhere on Earth, to be alive, it thanks to a long chain of cause and effect writtendeep into the structure of the universe. A primordial process so long, and soancient that on the scale of a human life it seems almost incomprehensible. One of th

英语听力：2013-11-20 地平线：黑洞吞噬—27

If you look at the Milky Way galaxy, its this interesting balancepoint that this place where its just enough to wash from the black whole tokeep things interesting to possibly make the environment that allows us toexist here. Astronomers are eagerly

英语听力：2013-10-16 地平线：黑洞吞噬—12

If there's a black hole at the center of our galaxy, that's gonna force these objects that are really close to the black hole to move much faster than they would move if there were no black holes. So the first thing you wanted to see is there are ver

英语听力：2013-10-13 地平线：黑洞吞噬—11

Just as I arrived at UCLA with my first faculty position, everything was falling into place in terms of the ability to answer this question at the centre of our galaxy. The telescopes were getting bigger so you had the due ability to see fine details