Alcohol Increases, Exercise Decreases Breast Cancer Risk

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Hundreds of thousands of new cases are identified worldwide every year. Now, one of the largest cancer prevention studies of its kind has reported some sobering findings. Just one alcoholic dr

US Researchers Discover New Breast Cancer Gene

Broadcast: Jan 21, 2003 U.S. researchers have discovered another breast cancer gene that may provide a new point of attack against the disease. The 1) molecule is common to many types of breast cancer

New Breast Cancer Drug

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 22, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say a drug developed several years ago reduces the chance that older wo

英语听力文摘 English Digest 563、植物的自我防御！

Plant Self-defense Plants may appear to be helpless in the face of hungry,toothy animals but many plants have evolved interesting systems of self-defense. Coarse meadow grasses are a good example. If you run your finger along a blade of coarse grass,

英语听力文摘 English Digest 541、冻结的一瞬！！

Freeze Suppose you are an animal. Well, actually, you are an animal, but suppose youre another kind of animal, maybe something small that might make a tasty snack for a larger predator. Youre walking along one day when you see a big dog. What do you

Animal Fats and Breast Cancer

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 27, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says more than one-million people this year will discover the

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - First electronically controlled animal

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS -May 21, 2002: First electronically controlled animals / Study of mothers and their sons / Effects of global warming Broadcast: VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this i

2006年VOA标准英语-Osteoporosis Drug Reduces Breast Cancer Risk

By David McAlary Washington 20 June 2006 Older women at high risk for breast cancer may soon have a new treatment option. Researchers have discovered that an osteoporosis drug is effective against the disease. In fact, it is as good as the establish

英语听力文摘 English Digest 468、流产和乳腺癌

Abortion and Breast Cancer When it comes to certain hot topics, claims about what science has or hasnt proven tend to be thrown around more in the service of one position or another than anything else. Somebody may tell you that global warming is abs

英语听力文摘 English Digest 27、狗和狼

Don: Who's the smartest dog in the whole wide world? DOG BARKING Yael: Please. Even if Ralph is the smartest dog in the world, that's not saying much. Any animal that will do exactly what you tell it to do isn't very smart. I'm not saying dogs weren'

2007年VOA标准英语-Drop in Breast Cancer Rate Tied to Drop in Horm

By Melinda Smith Washington 16 August 2007 In 2002, a national study of millions of American women showed that taking hormone replacement therapy during menopause increases the risk of breast cancer, blood clots and strokes. The news prompted many wo

Chicken Breast

Our supermarket had a sale on boneless chicken breasts, and a woman I know intended to stock up(备货，囤积）. At the store, however, she was disappointed to find only a few skimpy （不足的, 吝啬的）prepackaged portions of the poultry, s

生物钟为你提供老去的线索

If youre searching for the fountain of youth, you might find it in your DNA. Thats according to a new study that sheds light on the biological clock ticking in our genomes, why our bodies age and how we can slow down the process. University of Califo

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'One Of A Kind' Collection Of Animal Eyeballs Aids Research On Vision Problems

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there's a scientific collection like no other, a room full of animal eyeballs. Want to see an eyeball from a duck-billed platypus - and who doesn't? Let's face it - o

英语听力文摘 English Digest 375、狗也有强迫症？

Canine Compulsive Disorder 狗也有强迫症？ Yal: Your dog Raphine sure to be seemed to be lick ing his legs excessive . Is he Ok? Don: Its nothing! Y: Im afraid not, Don. Raphine may have what animal behaviorists call canine compulsive disorder

英语听力文摘 English Digest 435、你怕了吗？

The Anatomy of Fear One nice day youre walking along a wooded path. You come around a corner and there, coiled in the path, is a huge rattlesnake , its rattles abuzz. You are deathly afraid of snakes. Various parts of the brain signal the nervous sys

英语听力文摘 English Digest 139、动物会哭吗？

Do other animals besides humans cry? All animals with mobile eyes are equipped with a tearing system that keeps their eyes lubricated, protecting their eyes from the elements and so on. People tell tales of animals such as elephants and dogs weeping

Breast cancer more deadly to blacks

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The breast cancer is more deadly to black women than to whites, a new study found. This finding was published online Monday on the Journal of Clinical Oncology in the United States. The study was done by the City of Ho

英语听力文摘 English Digest 193、怎样哺育孩子

What Time Of Day Is Best To Feed Infants So That They Fall Asleep 把孩子养大可不是一件容易的事。婴儿没有时间观念，他可不管自己的爸爸妈妈累了一天晚上需要休息。更要命的是，孩子似乎觉得晚上的安

英语听力文摘 English Digest 233、婴儿口味偏好

美国一项研究显示-准妈妈在孕期的饮食偏好会直接影响到孩子出生后的口味选择。做这项研究的科学家们在实验中发现，胎宝宝能通过子宫品尝到食物的味道。试想一下，如果，准妈妈在怀孕