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新奇事件簿 亚马逊Alexa奖励有礼貌的孩子
Technology is now helping to teach children to be polite. Amazon will soon start selling a children's version of its virtual assistant Alexa. The new digital assistant will be called FreeTime. The child-friendly device will include what Amazon calls
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新奇事件簿 朝鲜的‘冷面’外交
Historic talks have taken place between the leaders of North and South Korea, aided by the dish of cold noodles. North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in discussed a whole range of bilateral issues, including t
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新奇事件簿 印度村庄的通电之旅
All villages in India now have electricity. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement on Monday. He said the final village in the country to get electricity was the remote Leisang village in the state of Manipur. The village was conn
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新奇事件簿 几岁是学习一门新语言最佳年龄
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that if people want to achieve native-like proficiency in a new language, they should start learning that language before the age of ten. The researchers added that children u
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新奇事件簿 世界上最繁忙的航空路线
A new report by the air-travel intelligence company OAG says Singapore to Kuala Lumpur is the world's busiest international air route. From March 2017 to the end of February 2018, exactly 30,537 flights flew between Singapore and KL. There was an ave
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新奇事件簿 日本儿童数量创新低
The number of children in Japan has fallen to its lowest number since records began. There were 170,000 fewer children in Japan at the end of March 2018 than there were a year earlier. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications issued a
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新奇事件簿 旅游业的碳足迹
Climate scientists from the University of Sydney in Australia say tourism causes over 8 per cent of greenhouse gasses. They also say that this figure will continue to increase because the tourism industry is growing. Their study looked at the carbon
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新奇事件簿 马来西亚的92岁高龄总理
Malaysia's former leader Mahathir Mohamad has staged a remarkable political comeback to end the six-decade rule of the Barisan Nasional (BN) party. It is still unclear when Mr Mahathir, 92, will be sworn in as Malaysia's next prime minister. When he
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新奇事件簿 拨打骚扰电话 罚款数亿美元
America's Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, has fined a man who they say placed nearly 100 million robocalls. A robocall is a telephone call that is made by a computer programme. The software can make thousands of calls at a time. The FCC f
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新奇事件簿 邀请时光旅行者参加霍金教授的追悼会
Time travelers have been invited to attend the memorial service for Professor Stephen Hawking. The legendary physicist, cosmologist and author died on March 14. Thousands of fans and well-wishers lined the streets in Cambridge, England for his funera
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新奇事件簿 治愈感冒的新分子
British researchers say they are close to finding a cure for the common cold. Scientists have worked for decades on a medicine that would help to end colds. The biggest problem for researchers was finding a drug that could fight the hundreds of types
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新奇事件簿 NASA:人类活动导致淡水重新分布
The USA's space agency NASA has confirmed that human activity is responsible for a massive redistribution of freshwater across Earth. It said the redistribution is continuing as populations shift and demand for food increases. In particular, equatori
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新奇事件簿 星巴克:无需消费也能入座蹭网
The cafe chain Starbucks has made a new policyabout who can use its cafes. Starbucks CEO HowardSchultz has announced that anyone can enter aStarbucks cafe in the USA without needing to make apurchase. That means people are free to sit in thecafe or u
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新奇事件簿 人类造成半数生物消失
Humans represent a tiny fraction of all life on Earth, but are responsible for the destruction of 83 per cent of all wild mammals and half of our plant life. This is the analysis of a new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The gr
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新奇事件簿 科学家将利用DNA寻找尼斯湖水怪
There is a legendary monster that people say lives in the deep Loch Ness lake in the north of Scotland. It is called the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie for short. It looks kind of like a dinosaur, with a small head on a long neck and humps on its back.
