The wood grains in each layer are aligned to provide individual components of the building, such as floors, walls, cross braces and beams, with extremely high levels of strength. 每一层的木纹都是对齐的，以提供建筑的各个组成部分，...
There is a global race to build the tallest wooden skyscraper. 全球都在竞相建造最高的木质摩天大楼。 The record was held by Mjostarnet, an 85-metre tower on the shore of Lake Mjosa in Norway, which hosts flats, a hotel and a swimming...
Given the almost universal disdain for legal language, the obvious question is why it persists. 鉴于几乎所有人都蔑视法律语言，有一个显而易见的问题是，为什么法律语言仍然存在。 Mr Martinez and his colleagues exami...
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers, is one of Shakespeares most memorable lines. 我们所为最要紧之事，乃是干掉所有律师。这是莎士比亚最令人难忘的诗句之一。 You would struggle to find such a line in the...
In an age of home gene-testing kits, powered by falls in the cost of sequencing, 47 genomes may not sound that impressive. 在一个家庭基因检测工具盛行的时代，由于测序成本的下降，47个基因组听起来可能并不那么令人印...
The human genome project, which published its results 20 years ago last month, was a landmark in biology. 人类基因组计划于上个月公布了20年前的成果， 这是生物学上的一个里程碑。 It was also somewhat misleadingly named. 它...
The second reason is technological. 第二个原因是技术上的。 Marine biologists find about 2,000 new species a year, a rate hardly changed since Darwins day. 海洋生物学家每年可以发现大约2000个新物种，这一速度自达尔文时...
Dr Fril started with barley, which has the longest spikes of the three, and therefore the most potential for fine tuning. 弗里尔博士从大麦开始实验，大麦在三种植物中具有最长的穗，因此最有微调的潜力。 (He also like...
Gene-editing has created a generation of musical crops基因编辑创造了一代音乐作物 It has been known for some time that plants can talk to one another. 人们知道植物可以相互交谈已经有段时间了。 Many communicate chemicall...
For their study, Karine Spiegel at the French National Institute of Health在她们的研究中，法国国家健康与医学研究所的凯琳史匹格and Medical Research and Eve Van Cauter at the University of Chicago speculated that和芝加哥大学...
