日期：2013-06-30 A towering South American plant that is believed to kill animals with its spikes and use their decaying bodies as fertilizer is about to bloom in England. 据美国雅虎新闻网6月21日报道，日前，英国皇家园艺协会从南美洲引进的食羊植物智利普亚菠萝在该协会... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-30 英国一项最新研究显示，前面印有黑色字母T的普通白色短袖T恤能让男人的吸引力指数提升12%。研究人员表示，印在前面的字母T能造成一种视觉上的假象，让人感觉穿着者的肩膀更宽、腰部更细，从而使其身形更显男性标准的V型身材。 Forget expensive designer clothes, a si... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-26 Our perception of how food tastes is influenced by cutlery, research suggests. 研究发现，人们对于食物味道的感觉受餐具影响。 Size, weight, shape and colour all have an effect on flavour, says a University of Oxford team. Cheese tastes saltier when ea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-21 A test taken by around 150,000 would-be British citizens each year is just a bad pub quiz with too much focus on culture and history at the expense of practical knowledge, an academic has said. 据英国《卫报》6月14日报道一名学者表示，每年约15万人参加... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-21 The United Nations forecast Thursday that the world's population will increase from 7.2 billion today to 8.1 billion in 2025, with most growth in developing countries and more than half in Africa. By 2050, it will reach 9.6 billion. 联合国6月13日最... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-21 《牛津英语辞典》最近公布了新近收录和修订的1200多个词条，关注（follow）、粉丝（follower）、快闪族（flash mob），以及美剧《生活大爆炸》中常用到的极客范儿（geekery）等词均被收录其中。 The terms tweet, dad dancing and geekery are among more than 1,200 n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-19 The quality of a performance does not drive the amount of applause an audience gives, a study suggests. 一项研究发现，一个演出的质量不会左右观众掌声的数量。 Instead scientists have found that clapping is contagious（传染的） , and the length of an o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-19 The UN says 7.6 million people became refugees in 2012, with the total number now higher than at any time since 1994. 联合国称2012年世界上有760万人成为难民，现在的难民总数比1994年以来任何时间都要高。 A report from the office of the UN High Commissio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-11 最近发表在美国《内科学年鉴》上的一份研究报告指出，每天使用防晒霜可延缓皮肤因光照老化的进程，同时降低患皮肤癌的风险。 A new study has found that applying sunscreen every day can do more than lower your risk of skin cancer it can also drastically redu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-11 美国芝加哥大学的研究人员发现，与传统相识方式相比，通过网络结识的情侣结婚后婚姻更幸福也更长久。这背后的原因可能是，上网找另一半时动力更足以及相亲网站在配对时更精细。 It may not be the most romantic way to meet the love of your life but it could be th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-02 All Europeans think that their own country is the most compassionate, and nearly everyone judges the Germans to be the least compassionate, although both France and Germany gave that title to Britain. 所有欧洲人都认为自己的民族是最富有同情心的，而几... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-02 5月31日是世界无烟日，世界卫生组织呼吁各国全面禁止各类烟草广告、赞助及推广活动，以帮助减少吸烟人数，尤其是预防年轻人成为新的烟民。 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called for a comprehensive ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-29 The University of Bologna in Italy has found what it says may be the oldest complete scroll of Judaism's most important text, the Torah. 意大利博洛尼亚大学发现了据称是最古老的完整版犹太教首要文本《律法书》。 This Torah scroll may be more than 850 ye... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-28 Australia has been ranked as the world's happiest nation among developed economies for the third year running. 澳大利亚连续三年被评为世界上最幸福的发达国家。 Australia has won the title of world's happiest industralised nation for three years Austra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-28 A quarter of the world's children are at risk of underperforming at school because of chronic malnutrition, says UK charity Save the Children. 英国慈善机构拯救儿童称，世界上1/4的儿童因为长期营养不良而有在学校表现不佳的危险。 Missing out on a nutriti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-24 Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this year's annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service. 英国广播公司（BBC）的全球民意调查显示，德国成为全世界最受好评的国家。 More than 26,000 people were surveyed international... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-24 A Taiwanese eatery famed for its dumplings was crowned Asia's best restaurant, whilerestaurants in Beijing claimed the lion's share of spots in the top ten of a new survey of the food-obsessed region's best dining. 据路透社5月16日报道美国的美食网站... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-19 英国经济事务研究所最近的一项研究发现，退休会对心理和身体健康产生不利影响；从中长期来看，退休会导致健康状况明显下降。该研究所指出，出于对健康和经济方面的考虑，人们都应该延长工作时间。 Retirement has a detrimental（不利的） impact on mental and physic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-17 A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year. 南非一所主流大学称，祖鲁语明年将成为所有大一新生的必修课。 Some 80% of people in KwaZulu-Natal speak Zulu The decision... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-10 德国卡塞尔大学的研究人员发现，说话时频繁使用第一人称单数代词我的人更容易受抑郁和焦虑症困扰，且不善人际交往。 People who say 'me', 'myself' and 'I' frequently are more likely to suffer with depression and anxiety, according to new research. Scientist... 阅读全文>>