The researchers used satellite data that provided continuous high-resolution images of the busiest 15% of the worlds oceans from 2017 to 2021, and cross-checked this vast dataset with 53bn historical ship locations available through AIS. 研究人员使...
In maritime legend, the Flying Dutchman traversed the worlds oceans undetectable except to the naked eye. 在航海传说中，幽冥飞船穿越了世界上只有肉眼才能发现的海洋。 Its mysterious voyages have inspired poems, novels, an o...
Perhaps. Comparing air-defence systems is tricky, for they are designed for different things. 也许吧。与防空系统对照是很棘手的，因为它们的设计目的不同。 Iron Dome deals with small rockets. 铁穹对付的是小型火箭。...
Palmer Luckey is no stranger to hype. 帕尔默勒基对炒作并不陌生。 In 2014 he sold Oculus, a virtual-reality startup, to Facebook for $2bn, kickstarting the current wave of interest in VR. 2014年，他以20亿美元的价格将虚拟现实初...
Aron Walsh, a materials scientist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the research, says DeepMinds work is impressive. 没有参与这项研究的伦敦帝国理工学院材料科学家阿隆沃尔什表示，深度思维的成果令人印...
Crystals can do all sorts of things, some more useful than others. 晶体可以做各种各样的事情，有些种类比其他种类更有用。 They can separate the gullible from their money in New Age healing shops. 在新时代水晶店里，它们...
Dozens of such papers have been published. 这样的论文已经发表了几十篇。 But for every one that has found evidence of neurogenesis, another has failed to do so. 但是，与每一个发现了神经发生证据的人相比，另一个群体...
One of the first signs of Alzheimers disease is confusion. 阿尔茨海默病的最初症状之一是神志不清。 Most people can park their car in a different space every morning and find it again in the evening. 大多数人可以每天早上把车...
Earth AI, led by Roman Teslyuk, SensOre, led by Richard Taylor, and OreFox, led by Warwick Anderson, have taken similar approaches, but have concentrated on Australia, which has particularly rich public geological records. 以罗曼特斯柳克为首的...
The future is electric. 未来是电动的。 That means it will need a lot of batteries, motors and wires. 这意味着我们将需要大量的电池、马达和电线。 That, in turn, means a lot of cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel with which to...
Enter Mr Bartos, and his admirable dedication to empiricism. 巴托斯先生登场了，他对经验主义的奉献令人钦佩。 He convinced 48 volunteers to perform 350,707 coin tosses, using everything from an Indian two-rupee piece to a Swiss t...
How to predict a coin toss 如何预测抛硬币 Coins are fair.Their tossers, less so. 硬币是公平的。它们的抛掷者就没那么公平了。 Legend holds that the city of Portland, Oregon, was nearly called Boston. 传说俄勒冈州的波特...
To keep the task manageable, the team confined themselves to examining only the beetles they had collected, leaving the other critters for later work. 为了保证任务的可管理性，研究小组只检查了他们收集到的甲虫，而把其他动...
Like human armies, army ants spell trouble for anything that finds itself in their path. 就像人类的军队一样，军蚁会给阻碍它们的任何东西带来麻烦。 The insects make a habit of killing organisms, often much larger than themse...
Then, starting in the late 19th century, the establishment of research laboratories, which brought together ideas, people and materials on an industrial scale, gave rise to further innovations such as artificial fertiliser, pharmaceuticals and the tr...
