spiciness is chilli pepper's best defense against seed attacking microbes.but not all chillis are hot, because producing that heat comes at a price.so says a study in journal proceeding the royal society b.researchers look at wild chilli populations

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十二)月

12 收回原先的谷物生产计划 DATE=3-27-01 TITLE=AGRICULTURE REPORT - StarLink Buyback Program BYLINE=George Grow (Start at 59

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 自然探索

If you've ever stuck rigidly to a diet, managed to lose weight but then piled the pounds back on, it's not your fault. 如果你曾严格坚持节食并减肥成功,但之后体重却又反弹,这不是你的错。 After about five years, 41 per

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Evolution continues today, and sometimes we can watch it happening. Researchers in the November 6th edition of the journal Science say that they caught in the act a population of butterflies in Ecuador potentially diverging into two distinct species.

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十一)月

Now, heres something you dont see every day: scientists cure color-blind monkeys. According to a report published online in the journal Nature, researchers have used gene therapy to allow color-blind squirrel monkeys to look at their fruit in a whole

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(九)月

A compound that has been tested in mice, BMN-111,is useful in preventing the action of the achondroplasia gene. 有一种叫 BMN-111的化合物,经老鼠实验,在抑制软骨发育不全基因方面非常有效。 Achondroplasia is the most com

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

You could have lots of analytical intelligence and very little practical intelligence, or lots of practical intelligence and not much analytical intelligence, 你也许拥有很高的分析推理智商,但实用智商却可能比较低;或者你拥

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 异类:不一样的成功启示录

You think they mate for life? 它们一生只有一个伴侣吗 No. They got to have multiple sex partners. 不,它们一定有多个性伴侣 So you think Skitters sleep around, huh? How do you know for certain? 这么说,你觉得迅猎兽到处沾

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 陨落星辰第二季

Science and technology 科学技术 Genetically modified tree 转基因树木 Into the wildwood 进军森林 A GM species may soon be liberated deliberately 一种转基因树木不久或将大量种植,但很审慎 ONCE upon a time, according to f

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

A gene that causes shortsightedness has been pinpointed by British scientists, paving the way for eye drops that could make glasses history. Within just ten years, a drug that prevents short-sightedness or stops it in its tracks could be in widesprea

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

If you frequently find yourself covered in mosquito bites, while others escape without so much as an itch, you can blame your genes. 如果你发现蚊子特别喜欢叮你,而其他人都安然无恙,这其实与你的基因有关。 For British

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Scientists have identified bacterial genes that lead to antibiotic resistance, including several that can be resistant to most powerful antibiotics, in air samples from Beijing, which is frequently cloaked in heavy smog, 科学家已经在北京的空气

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

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

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

BEIJING, August 1 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. researchers have discovered a genetic mutation unique to African Americans that links to heighten their asthma risk, according to reports published on Sunday in the journal Nature Genetics. Researchers of Univers

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

编者按: 就其带给我们的美好感觉的度和量而言,美的最主要来源是我们与外界的美好关系,它们给我们的生活带来源源不断的感情--让我们茁壮成长,超越自我。这一有力的和谐关系可以存

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语名篇背诵

Something called the Danish Twin Study 一个叫丹麦双胞胎的研究表明, established that only about 10 percent 普通人在生物学允许的限度内的寿命, of how long the average person lives, 仅仅有百分之十 within certain bi

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

The anatomy-related adaptations were those that seemed to control the development of the pandas second thumbs. 与生物体结构相关的基因有可能控制熊猫第二拇指的生长。 Two genes in particular, DYNC2H1 and pericentrin, have mutat

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Genetically modified cells could eliminate the need for daily injections to treat type 1 diabetes, experts have revealed. 专家透露,有了基因改良细胞,1型糖尿病患者就可不必天天注射胰岛素了。 The human cell line is gene

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Nor did the procedure fulfil any unmet medical need. 此程序也未能满足任何未知医疗需求。 For the child whose genome was edited to confer resistance, the claimed benefit is protection from a virus that she may never encounter 对于为产

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- A study conducted by Israeli researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York shows that genes, rather than good eating and lifestyle habits, determine longevity, according to media reports Friday. Thi

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻