英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-08 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—21

This is one of the most important experiments taking place. The one that could help us understand the degree to which research done so far is relevant to bees in the wild.-So what we know so far? There's a good arguement for saying that diseases and

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-10 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—22

-Hmm, that's pretty lovely.He puts that down to his honey bees' rather unusual habitat. -We're on the roof of Tate Britain and here these are some of the bees that I look after for the Tate. -I have to say and congratulate. You're having really very,

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-17 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—25

One of the first thing they look at is taking place in the grounds of University of Reading. They are hand-pollinating strawberry plants. It might seem strange, but hand-pollination is something that's already been trying out in southwest China, wher

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-19 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—26

But there is a second option to find ways of creating more bee-friendly enviornment. There is another reseach group at the University of Reading, who are trying a very different approach. Scientists Vicky and Jenny Wickens are investigating a way to

英语听力：2013-10-11 地平线：黑洞吞噬—10

It's like trying to pick out an individual inside the middle of a busy city, with lights and cars, and things happening all around them. But that wasn't the only problem. Vast, swirling clouds of dust and gas prevent visible light from the centre of

英语听力：探索发现 2014-06-06 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-11

Weknew from the radar measurements where Golevka was within a few tens of metres.And yet it was actually 12 or 15 kilometres away from where it was predicted tobe without Yarkovsky effect. So these very precise radar observations allowedus to see the

英语听力：探索发现 2014-06-04 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-10

Heset out to investigate a hundred-year-old theory that said asteroids werepowered by the Sun itself. It was called the Yarkovsky effect. The Yarkovskyeffect is a very small acceleration and acts on asteroids and what it is is ifyou take a model, the

英语听力：探索发现 2014-05-30 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-9

Itsremarkable how we are able to build up this picture of whats going on millionsof miles away in the solar system. Its one of the joys of science really, justalmost like a detective picking up on those tiny clues to tell a bigger story. Sothat the b

英语听力：探索发现 2014-05-11 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-1

For the residents of the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, the morning of Friday, February 15, 2013 began like any other. As they set off to work in what has become a craze throughout Russia, many recorded their journeys, but these cameras usually used fo

英语听力：探索发现 2014-05-14 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-2

This isnt the first time its happened. Over thelast few years, scientists have examined many other devastating impacts in theEarths past. Using this knowledge, I want to answer the key questions that theChelyabinsk meteor strike raises. Where did thi

英语听力：探索发现 2014-05-16 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-3

I was shocked. I was truly shocked. I never thought Iwould see an event like this over a major city during my lifetime. We couldnt predict this was going to happen. The pieceof rock that actually entered the atmosphere was relatively small, maybe onl

英语听力：探索发现 2014-05-18 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-4

Amazing images. But what can you get out of these asan expert? What it shows us, first of all, is a great record ofthe entry of the object into the Earths atmosphere. So you see it right fromthe moment it really penetrated. And there it is. That is t

英语听力：探索发现 2014-05-21 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-5

The explosion generated a shockwave so massive it wasdetected over 15,000 kilometres away. The low-frequency waves were picked up bymonitoring stations. So it is kind of like a listening network around theworld. Thats right. Theyre not set up for fir

英语听力：2013-10-23 地平线：黑洞吞噬—15

It's clear that it will come very close to the black hole, might even hit the black hole. So maybe we actually are feeding the black hole here. Now exactly how much and how fast of all these is completely unknown and that's the excitement about it be

英语听力：2013-10-25 地平线：黑洞吞噬—16

To stare into the void of a black hole, to tumble through space before disappearing forever within it, it's the prospect of catching that unique moment that explains the excitement of this year's events. What happens to matter once it's been swallowe

英语听力：2013-10-30 地平线：黑洞吞噬—18

Here then is the strange paradox of black holes: the defeating black hole is anything but black. Just how greedy and bright a black hole can get is revealed by an aptly very ordinary looking galaxy called Cygnus A, some 650 million light years away.

英语听力：2013-11-01 地平线：黑洞吞噬—19

We now know this light is produced by the rotating disk of matter, spinning round the edge of the black hole at the heart of the Cygnus A galaxy, waiting to be devoured. It means that against all popular expectations, the brightest sources of light i

英语听力：2013-11-15 地平线：黑洞吞噬—25

Galaxies could in a way, be much bigger than they currently are. Something is stopping them growing larger and that something is the black hole at the center. Now this is bizarre because the ration of the size of the black hole to the size of the gal

英语听力：2013-11-17 地平线：黑洞吞噬—26

To walkhere on Earth, to be alive, it thanks to a long chain of cause and effect writtendeep into the structure of the universe. A primordial process so long, and soancient that on the scale of a human life it seems almost incomprehensible. One of th

英语听力：2013-10-16 地平线：黑洞吞噬—12

If there's a black hole at the center of our galaxy, that's gonna force these objects that are really close to the black hole to move much faster than they would move if there were no black holes. So the first thing you wanted to see is there are ver