赖世雄英语新闻听力通 第62期:对抗超级细菌

(BBC News)Scientists in Japan have reported a big advance in the fight against superbugs. （英国国家广播公司报道）日本科学家发表了一项对抗超级细菌的重大进展。 Thousands of people fall ill every year from bacteria the

英伦广角 深吻传递千万细菌

A passionate kiss shares much more than intimacy. A single 10-second smooch can transfer tens of millions of bacteria from one partner to the other. Thats the finding from a study in the journal Microbiome. [Remco Kort et al, Shaping the oral microbi

unit37 Where Does Bad-breath Odor Come From 口臭是怎样产生

We all have offensive breath at one time or another. In most cases, offensive breath originates from bacteria in the mouth, although there are other more surprising causes. Until a few years ago, the most doctors could do was to counsel patients with

VOA慢速英语20060221a

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Legumes: Good for People and SoilBy Bob Bowen Broadcast: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Many different kinds of plants

Horizon - Life On Mars 火星生命 - 9

The ground here is permafrost, a mixture of soil and ice frozen together. A group of Russian scientists have teamed up with NASA to drill down into it in search of microorganisms. It's work that's bee

Alien Neighbors 寻访外星人 9

He wears gloves and cleans his tools with alcohol to avoid contaminating the ancient salt samples with modern microorganisms.

新基因试验有助于发现食物中毒

New Genetic Test Helps Find Food Poisoning American scientists are using genetic markers to investigate food poisoning cases linked to romaine lettuce. The Associated Press reports that their use of genetic sequencing is completely changing the disco

TED演讲:论生物多样性(4)

Soon we will be in a position to go forth in the field with sequencers on our backs to hunt bacteria in tiny crevices of the habitat's surface, 不久的将来，我们还将可以通过便携式的测序机完成这样的操作,直接寻找到那些隐

SSS 2009-11-16

It seemed like a good ideabecause rivers and ponds in Bangladesh were contaminated with bacteria, Bangladeshis switched to wells. But soon after, in the early 80s, researchers realized those wells were harming Bangladeshis with a new poisonarsenic. T

SSS 2009-03-19

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Imagine antibiotics that would never lose their punch. New research focuses on drugs that bacteria simply cant resist. Most antibiotics work by killing p

SSS 2010-07-13

Some bacteria have adapted to super cold environments for millions of years. And scientists have isolated some of the essential genes that allow bacteria to tolerate their harsh living conditionsbecause these same genes might help in the creation of

SSS 2010-09-01

Theres been an unexpected development in our understanding of drug resistance in bacteria. The accepted scenario was a simple case of evolutionary selection. In a bacterial population exposed to a killer drug, a few lucky individuals might have a gen

SSS 2011-02-10

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Good news for chilly doctorsyou can wear long sleeves with impunity inside hospitals, because University of Colorado researchers find that docs pick up just as much bacter

研究人员在人类鼻子发现新抗生素

New Antibiotic Found in Human Noses 研究人员在人类鼻子发现新抗生素 The search for new drugs to fight infections has led to a discovery in an unlikely place in peoples noses. What researchers found in noses is a compound called lugdunin

60秒科学:Bacteria on the Skin You're In

Have you ever said, I know it like the back of my hand? Well, how well do you know the back of your hand? Or the back of your knee? Or behind your ears? Probably not as well as scientists at the National Institutes of Health who just completed a sur

Food Poisoning in Summer

56 自然原因导致夏季食物中毒比率偏高 DATE=6-12-01 TITLE=AGRICULTURE REPORT - Food Poisoning in Summer BYLINE=George Grow (Start at 59

经济学人231:清洁水源 Clean water

Clean water 清洁水源 Silver threads of life 生命的银丝带 A water filter that kills bacteria, rather than just removing them 新滤水器能够消灭细菌，而不单单是排除细菌 MORE than a billion people lack clean waterand in most

万物简史 第430期:小生物的世界(1)

20 Small World 第二十章 小生物的世界 It's probably not a good idea to take too personal an interest in your microbes. 要是你对身边的微生物过于在意，这很可能不是个好习惯。 Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and

10秒内可捡起掉在地上的食物吃？！别再信啦

The 10-second second rule is a 'dangerous myth' and could actually KILL you. 十秒钟的原则是危险的空谈而且可以使你致命。 Millions of people abide by the so-called ten-second rule - judging food as OK to eat if it only touches the

办公室每天最值得注意的几处你知道吗？

You may think your office is tidy, organized and clean, but the truth would likely shock you the bacterial population in offices is on average 400 times higher than in bathrooms. 你或许认为你的办公室干净整齐，但是事实可能会让你大