Well, we take so many things for granted. Employees will wash their hands before making your food. Police and firefighters will come when you call them and doctors who poke and prod you are using clean instruments. Well, hold off on that last one. On

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(四)月

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. As long as there have been mice, people have sought a better mousetrap. And since we figured out that bacteria can make us sick, weve searched for better

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十)月

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? It's no secret cigarettes can yellow your teeth. But tobacco smoke has another, unseen effect. It can wipe out the healthy bacteria in your mouth, leaving the f

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This January, the country Turkey will join a handful of European nations that require visual health warnings on every pack of cigarettes. These images include things like diseased lungs and a foot sporting a toe tag. But maybe a Petri dish overrun wi

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-Sheldon: Obviously, waitressing at the cheesecake factory 很显然,干奶酪蛋糕这行 is a complex socioeconomic activiity complex: 复杂的 socioeconomic: 社会经济学的 activity: 活动 是个复杂的社会活动。 That requires a gre

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 生活大爆炸第三季

HEALTH REPORT - Increased Efforts Urged to Fight TuberculosisBy Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Almost two million people

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年慢速英语(三)月

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Life on earth requires six basic ingredientscarbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus. Those six elements are the building blocks for DNA and R

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十二)月

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

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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

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. It might seem hard to imagine that a bad tooth could be deadly. More than 41,000 students in the Philippines brushed their teeth at the same time last month to set a world record, organizers said. The r

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists may have found a way to reduce shortages of type O blood. Type O is the kind of blood that hospitals most often need. What the researchers are testing is an easier way to make type O blood ou

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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

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AS IT IS 2016-03-12 SeaWorld Reports a Very Sick Blackfish A captive whale in a water park in Florida that killed his trainer six years ago is reportedly in grave health. The killer whale, Tilikum, appears to have a serious bacterial infection. That

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-Stephanie:I don't see anything at all, Sheldon. 我什么都没看到,谢尔顿。 -Sheldon:Well, you're the doctor, but I am constantly hearing this annoying sound. constantly:经常的 annoying:恼人的,讨厌的 你是医生我听你的

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HEALTH REPORT - A New Life Treating AIDS in Africa, Then Tragedy StrikesBy Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Botswana has a

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Scientists have identified bacterial genes that lead to antibiotic resistance, including several that can be resistant to most powerful antibiotics, in air samples from Beijing, which is frequently cloaked in heavy smog, 科学家已经在北京的空气

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Researchers have developed a method to activate electronic implants in the body and eliminate bacterial infections using a wireless signal。 研究者已经开发了一种运用无线信号激活人体中电子植入物来消除细菌感染的方法。

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

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

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Poking around inside our nostrils is disgusting, unhygienic and potentially harmful, so its baffling that its as common as it is? 在鼻孔里捅来捅去听起来真恶心,既不卫生也不安全,真是很奇怪为什么抠鼻子会那么流行。

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Amd of course, you've just heard and you already know that we're running out of antibiotics. 当然,你一定听说过,而且你早就知道了,我们快要没有有效的抗生素了。 Bacteria are incredibly multi-drug-resistant right now, a

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