This is not a word for word transcript. William: Hello and welcome to 6 minute English. I hope you're ready for another five minutes and fifty-five seconds of wonderful English language conversation about an interesting topic from BBC News. I'm Willi

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

Jen: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Jen and with me today is Neil. Neil: Hello there. Jen: Todays story is all about allergies. If you have an allergy to something, your body reacts to it in a negative way. Do yo

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. If theres anything better than a fresh, ripe, tomato, its a gigantic fresh, ripe tomato. And thanks to a couple of mutations, thats exactly what we all enj

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(五)月

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. It sounds like something out of a bad science fiction novel. During World War II, a fungus called Tricoderma reesei ate its way through US military unifo

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. It took 13 years and countless hours of research to unravel the human genome. Now neuroscientists want to do their fields version. A small group of rese

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If the human genome were put in a straight line, it would be over six and a half feet long. So how do you store all that DNA in a tiny nucleus? And have the cell manage it? Researchers explain how in a study featured on the cover of the October 9th i

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. People get malaria from Anopheles mosquitoes that themselves are infected with a protozoan parasite called Plasmodium. The mosquitoes do have immune sy

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If the human genome is the book of life, then Crispr technology is its Microsoft Word. The cut-and-paste technique, invented only three years ago, can be used on fledgling genomes to snip out bits of DNA and, if required, insert new stretches. 如果说

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Whether a cup of java will leave you craving more could be chalked up to your genes. 一杯咖啡是否会使你上瘾也许是由你的基因决定的。 People with a newly identified genetic variant in their DNA, called PDSS2, may be inclined to d

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Where Do We Come From? 我们来自哪里? Would you like to know where your ancestors came from? British and American scientists may have found answers for you. They have developed a new algorithm to study deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA --

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AS IT IS 2016-08-05 Where Are the World's Tallest and Shortest People? 全球最高和最矮的人分别在哪里? The tallest men in the world are Dutch, while the tallest women come from Latvia. 世界最高的男性是荷兰人,但全球最高的

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Scientist to Sequence Genes in Space 科学家在空间站研究基因序列 On Earth, American astronaut Kate Rubins researched some of the deadliest diseases like Ebola. Now, while orbiting the planet in the International Space Station, she will be

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Healthy living 健康生活 Mind and body 身与心 The reason loneliness could be bad for your health 孤独会对你的健康不利的原因 SCIENCE has many uses, but it doesn't often produce handy pick-up lines. 科学有很多用处,但是它通

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Science and Technolgy. 科技。 Social status and health. 社会地位与健康。 Misery index. 贫困指数。 Low social status is bad for your health. Biologists are starting to understand why. 社会地位低对身体不好,生物学家开始理

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Stressed parents压力下的父母Cancel that violin class取消小提琴补习班Helicopter moms and dads will not harm their kids if they relax a bit揠苗助长的父母们,放松点,对孩子没坏处。 WELL-TO-DO parents fear two things: th

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The mystery of why giant pandas are forced to spend 14 hours a day eating foods has finally been solved - they can only digest around 17 per cent of the bamboo they swallow. 大熊猫不得不一天14个小时都在进食的谜题近日终于被解开了

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A survey of more than 2,000 people living in the UK has found that those with a higher IQ are more likely to live a longer life. 一项调查研究了2000多名住在英国的人士,发觉智商高的人更有可能长寿。 Even when factors such

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An end to grey hair and crows-feet could be just 10 years away after scientists showed 科学家发现,动物的衰老过程有可能逆转。 it is possible to reverse ageing in animals. 从此以后,可能仅需10年,人类就可以告别白发

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当下,全球城市化进度迅猛。在城市人口超过全球人口总数一半的21世纪初叶,城市成为上海世博会的主题别有深义。 Today, the world is rapidly urbanizing. With half of the world population expected to live in

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What will life be like in 28 years? 本届上海世博会以城市生活为主题,可谓匠心独具(show originality)。在这个城市人口超过人类总数一半的21世纪初叶,在这个城市化进程最迅猛的阶段。我们不禁要猜

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