This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau Germany.This will just take a little more time than our usual minute. Why do I talk so much on money, when I'm a professor public health?

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(七)月

1. The Pentagon has released five silent videos it says it seized from Osama Bin Laden's compound. Most show him giving statements into a camera, but another shows him sitting on the floor watching TV, flipping to different channels that were showing

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1. Police in Maryland have found remains that they believe are those of a missing 11-year-old boy. William McQuain's mother was found beaten and stabbed to death last week. Her estranged husband was arrested in North Carolina the day after her body w

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Nanotechnology uses matter at the level of molecules and atoms. Researchers are finding different uses for particles with a length of one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter. These include things

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A killer bug spreading across the globe like wildfire sounds like something out of a bad sci- fi film. But while this is still the stuff of fantasy, microbiologists are concerned about the news of an enzyme with the potential to convert all bacteria

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Science and Technology Combating addiction 科技 打击吸毒 Can a vaccine stop drug abuse? 是否有种疫苗能对付毒品滥用? It may be possible to vaccinate people against addictive drugs 向吸毒者接种疫苗防止毒瘾将成为可能

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Because chemists for so long worked in isolation, conventions were slow to emerge. Until well into the second half of the century, the formula H2O2 might mean water to one chemist but hydrogen peroxide to another. C2H4 could signify ethylene or marsh

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BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists from Tufts University of the U.S. have created the world's smallest electrical motor in a single molecule. The finding was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on Monday. In the research, scientist

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We generally imagine aliens on a vaguelyEarth-like planet circling a distant star. We do not normally think of themliving out in space itself. 我们通常想象外星人住在绕着遥远的恒星运行,隐约像地球的行星上. 我们一般不会认

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Hell, of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, G?ttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, both in Germany, developed a way to use two laser beams to make individual molecules glow on and off. 斯特凡W赫尔,作为哥廷

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Afghan Taliban commander killed

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There are actually twenty-two naturally occurring amino acids known on Earth, 实际上,地救上有22种天然存在的氨基酸, and more may await discovery, but only twenty of them are necessary to produce us and most other living things. 更多

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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