日期：2012-05-05 5月4日到10月7日，英国白金汉宫的女王美术馆将举办题为达芬奇：解剖学家的展览，将展出著名画家达芬奇的87幅解剖画作。据介绍，达芬奇在当时共解剖了大约30具人体标本，做了上百幅解剖画稿，不过这些作品直到1900年才被发表并得到科学界的认可。 An employee of the Qu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 Fifteen million babies, one in ten births, are born prematurely every year, a global project suggests. 一项全球项目显示，每年有1/10、大约1500万婴儿是早产儿。 One million of these babies die soon after birth. The joint report, led by the WHO, says th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's The Scream has become the most expensive art work sold at auction as it went for $119.9m. 挪威表现派艺术家爱德华蒙克的作品《呐喊》以1.199亿美元价格被拍卖，成为史上最贵艺术品。 The 1895 pastel（粉笔画） was boug... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-28 Honesty is often said to be the best policy in social situations but being yourself at work is not a good idea for your career, research suggests. 人们常说诚实是处世的最佳策略，然而研究显示，在职场中做真实的自己并不利于你的事业发展。 While revealing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-26 Bowel cancer patients who take daily aspirin could cut their chance of dying from the disease by about a third, experts believe. 专家们相信，肠癌患者每天服用阿司匹林能将死亡率降低1/3。 A study in the British Journal of Cancer looked at 4,500 bowel c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-26 There is still no evidence mobile phones harm human health, says a major safety review for the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA). 英国健康保护署一项安全检查称，目前仍没有证据证明手机危害人体健康。 Scientists looked at hundreds of studies of mobile... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-25 All's Well That Ends Well has another author as well as William Shakespeare, according to research from Oxford University academics. 牛津大学学术社的研究显示，《终成眷属》除了威廉莎士比亚之外还有另一位作者托马斯米德尔顿。 Thomas Middleton has been r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 Scientists have made what they believe to be the first sighting of an adult white orca, or killer whale. 科学家首次发现一只成年白色逆戟鲸，又称杀人鲸。 Iceberg is believed to be the first mature white orca observed The adult male, which they have ni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-21 Want to insult a woman? Then offer her a compliment. 想侮辱一个女人吗？那就赞美她吧。 Only half of women actually enjoy being praised and many others misinterpret well-meant words as offensive, according to new research. And you look well is one of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-21 Working with temps harms your health and wealth. Not only will you suffer anxiety attacks, you'll get paid less too, according to a new report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). 英国国家经济和社会研究学院的一项新报... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-20 Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. 科学家称，众所周知的干旱大陆非洲实际上坐落在一片广阔的地下水库之上。 They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers（蓄水层） underground is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-18 One of Nasa's retired space shuttles has made a dramatic flypast over the centre of the US capital on the way to its final resting place in a museum. 美国宇航局一架退役航天飞机在首都华盛顿中心上空做了一次引人注目的飞行，飞往它最终的休息地某博物馆。... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-17 A young reporter who led coverage of a sexual abuse scandal at a US college is among the winners of the top prize in US journalism, the Pulitzers. 一位报道美国某大学性虐待丑闻的年轻记者被授予美国新闻业最高奖项普利策奖。 Patriot-News reporter Sara Ga... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-14 After an entire century that included two high-profile government investigations and countless books and movies, we're still debating what really caused the Titanic to hit an iceberg and sink on that crystal-clear chilly night. 泰坦尼克号沉没一百周... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-14 Facebook is a habit-forming activity - but users who spend a lot of time on the site say they feel less happy with their lives. Facebook是一种易上瘾的活动，然而花大量时间上该网站的用户称他们感到生活没有以前幸福了。 University of Gothenburg researche... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-07 Really, really liking yourself may give you the edge in your next job interview, a new study suggests. 一项新研究显示，自恋确实能让你在下一个求职面试中占据优势。 That's because narcissists（自我陶醉者） , known to be obnoxiously（可憎地） high on se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-07 To the dismay of some, Facebook has no Dislike button. But a new application for the social network may prove to be the next-best thing. Facebook没有不喜欢这个选项，这真让一些人大失所望。但一款针对社交网站的新应用程序或许会成为退而求其次的不错选择。... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-07 中国中央电视台春节联欢晚会日前在法国戛纳国际电视节期间被认定为全球收看人数最多的晚会，荣获吉尼斯世界纪录证书。 Guinness World Records, the global authority on record-breaking achievements, presented China Central TV (CCTV) the world record for Most... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-07 对于英国三分之二的女性而言，低胸装让她们感觉更加性感和自信。据称，英国七分之一的女性凭借傲人的乳沟在职场上获得晋升，8%的受访英国女性透露，事业线还可以帮她们躲过违章停车罚款。 Brits are top of the game when it comes to using their cleavage（劈开，分... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-06 Eighteen Madagascan pochards - the world's most endangered duck - have hatched in a captive breeding centre. 18只马达加斯加潜鸭世界上最濒危的鸭种在繁殖中心成功孵化。 The newly hatched ducklings represent almost one third of the entire world populati... 阅读全文>>