TED演讲:我们能够避免老化(6)

This list is just for illustration; it is incomplete. 这个列表仅仅是一个例子，它是不完整的。 The list on the right is also incomplete. 右边的列表也一样不完整。 It's a list of types of pathology that are age-related, 它们

Paul Rothemund:DNA魔法

Paul Rothemund正在编写一种特殊的「密码」以使DNA能自己排列成星形、笑脸及其他图案。您会为之感到震惊，但您所看到的只是分子自我排列组合的小型表演，它实际上揭示了未来制造出各种东西

TED演讲:辣味的科学(1)

Why does your mouth feel like it's on fire when you eat a spicy pepper? 为什么吃辣椒时嘴里像是着了火一样？ And how do you soothe the burn? 怎样才能缓解这种灼烧感？ Why does wasabi make your eyes water? 为什么芥末酱能

走进剑桥大学 第18期:克里克和沃森

The Secret of Life in the Pub 克里克和沃森[qh]The names of James Watson and Francis Crick are bound together forever because the scientific discovery they made was truly a joint enterprise，Watson and Crick were the first to describe the struc

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(9)

And every single part of this mechanism is actually plausible in biology. 实际上，这个机制的每一个步骤在生物领域中都是可行的。 In other words, I've taken off-the-shelf components, and I've made a spectroscope. 换句话讲，我

SSS 2012-04-20

As it ages, white paper turns distinctive of yellow, but why? To find out, scientists artificially aged modern paper to rebuild the changes on the molecular level, the researchers in the Journal physical review of letters, for 48 days, 3 unpleached p

SSS 2009-03-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Understanding all the genes and molecules involved in human disease is quite a challenge. Thats why scientists study model organisms, like flies and worm

SSS 2012-04-18

As it ages white paper turns a distinctive yellow. But why? To find out, scientists artificially aged modern paper to reveal the changes on the molecular level. The research is in the Journal Physical Review Letters. For 48 days, three unbleached pap

SSS 2012-03-07

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, got a minute~ Theyre called hydogels: Jell-O-like materials made of networks of long-chain molecules in water. And theyre as flexible as living tissue. But hydrogels could not recov

英语新词:这些cle/ule后缀单词 你理解对了么?

英语新词:这些cle/ule后缀单词 你理解对了么? 以cle或ule后缀的名词常表示 small (小的) 含义。 article n. 文章；物品；条款；[语] 冠词。 circle n. 循环，周期；圆；圈子；圆形物。 cubicle n. 小卧室；

TED演讲:为什么玻璃是透明的(1)

Take a look out your window, put on your glasses if you wear them. 向窗外张望一下，有必要的话，戴上眼镜。 You might want to grab a pair of binoculars, too, or a magnifying lens. 也许你还想拿副望远镜或是放大镜。 Now,

TED演讲:为什么油水不能混合(2)

As liquid water, these molecules are engaged in a constant and random square dance that is called the hydrogen bonding network. 作为液态水，这些分子从事着恒定而随机的被称为氢键网络的方块舞。 Entropy favors keeping the s

TED演讲:为什么油水不能混合(1)

Why does salt dissolve in water but oil doesn't? 为什么盐可溶于水而油却不行呢？ Well, in a word,chemistry. But that's not very satisfied, isn't it? 总的来说，是化学作用。但这并不令人满意，对吧？ Well, the reason

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(5)

But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem 但是如果你再深入地想一下，这乌贼会有一个可怕的问题， because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that. 因为在它的体内，

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(12)

And the final thing is, again just to reiterate that there's this practical part, 最后，只是再一次重申，这个研究的实际应用方面， and so we've made these anti-quorum sensing molecules that are being developed as new kinds of the

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(11)

And what I would hope that I could further argue to you is that this is the invention of multicellularity. 我希望能进一步地说服你们的是，这就是多细胞生物的起源。 Bacteria have been on the Earth for billions of years; humans

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(10)

To finish I'll just show you the strategy. 最后，我只跟你们说一下战略。 And this one I'm just using the interspecies molecule, but the logic is exactly the same. 在这里，我们只是使用跨菌种分子，但是思维逻辑是一模一

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(8)

So we went back to molecular biology and started studying different bacteria, 所以我们回到分子生物学的方法，开始研究不同的细菌， and what we've found now is that in fact, bacteria are multilingual. 我们现在已经发现，事

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(7)

We also then went to look at what are these molecules -- these were the red triangles on my slides before. 我们同时也研究了这些小分子，这些就是我刚才幻灯上的小红三角形。 And so this is the Vibrio fischeri molecule. This

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(3)

What was actually interesting to us was not that the bacteria made light, but when the bacteria made light. 事实上，我们感兴趣的部分并不是细菌会不会发光，而是细菌何时发光。 What we noticed is when the bacteria were alo