This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. If evolution weeds out detrimental traits, why do some seem to stick around? Well what's bad in our current environment may have been good in the conditi

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(六)月

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Ants are known for working together, operating as a unit for the good of the colony. But not so fast, say researchers from the Universities of Leeds an

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Only 10 percent of people die from primary tumors. The real problem is when it spreads around the body. The problem of metastases. Arizona State Universitys Paul Davies, s

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[fly]This is Scientific Americans: 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky. Go a minute? Only ten percent of people die from primary tumors, the real problem is when it spreads around the body, the problem of metastasis. Arizona state University's Paul D

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The first DNA analysis of 2,500-year-old remains from one of the great early civilizations of the Middle East, the Phoenicians, has shown the man had European heritage, researchers said Wednesday. 周三,研究人员宣布对于2500年的尸体的首

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Museum Aims to Keep African Archeological Treasures in Africa Also: A vaccine against meningitis proves successful in Uganda. And a study suggests genetic reasons for living longer. Transcript of radio broadcast: 12 May 2008 VO

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - U.S. Seeks to Cut Levels of Chemical Used for Teflon, Other Non-Stick ProductsBy Caty Weaver, Brianna Blake and Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE

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A technology company is developing a lie detector app for smartphones that could be used by parents, teachers - and internet daters. 一家科技公司正在研发一款面向智能手机用户的测谎软件,家长、教师甚至线上约会者都可

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The rich are set to become God-like cyborgs in what could be the 'biggest evolution in biology' since life emerged. 富人们将变成会成为上帝般的电子人,这将可能是人类有史以来在生物方面最大的进化。 This is accordin

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Tick-tock, tick-tock. Is that your biological clock? And if it is, are you female? Most people think biological clocks are strictly female phenomena, with infertility and the risk of certain diseases

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Don't blame genes for aging facial skin. A new study of twins suggests you can blame those coarse wrinkles, brown or pink spots, and dilated blood vessels on too much time in the sun, smoking, and being overweight. Because twins share genes, but may

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Scientists say they have made a leap in knowing why some people retain their youthful looks while others age badly. 科学家称他们已经在探究为什么有的人青春长驻而另一些人逐年老去这一问题上取得突破性进展。 They

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Science and technology 科学技术 Cancer genetics 癌症遗传学 Gene therapy 基因疗法 Genetic mutations predict which cancers will respond to treatment 基因突变将预测某种治疗会对哪些癌症起作用 THE International Cancer Geno

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US scientists have stripped life back to its bare essentials creating a synthetic microbe with the absolute minimum genetic information needed to grow and reproduce. 美国科学家将生命的多余部分剔除,只留下最基本的要素,由此创

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National legislators from Heilongjiang province, which is China's principal producer of non-genetically-modified soybeans, are calling for a law to set up a special zone where the planting and processing of GM plants is prohibited. 黑龙江省是我国

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Have you ever seen bamboo shoots in a storm? I have. I remember huddling in a hut in Thailand watching a raging typhoon sweep through the mountains. The clump of bamboo outside the window was completely flattened by the raging winds. The wind was so

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Are you living consciously in an unconscious world? You may have noticed that our world is something of a chaotic place lately. Loud. Noisy. Frantic. Angry. Violent. Fearful. Just watch the news. Actually, dont. And by world, I mean the physical worl

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Despite implicit and explicit questions of my right to be in an elite space, I'm proud to report that when I graduated, 我不知道自己是否能算精英阶层,但我很骄傲地宣称, I was the first black woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics

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And the first myth is if you try really hard 谣言一:如果你很努力地尝试, you can live to be 100. 你就可以活到一百岁。 False. 错了。 The problem is, only about one out of 5,000 people 事实上,在美国,每五千人中只

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