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日期：2009-05-20 The European Space Agency (Esa) is expected to name four new astronauts on Wednesday. 欧洲航天局将于本周三选出四名新宇航员。 Esa member states have spent billions of euros on the ISS The recruits（招聘，新兵） were selected from more than 8,000 appl... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-20 Astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis have released the Hubble Space Telescope after a series of spacewalks to repair and upgrade the observatory. 阿特兰蒂斯号航天飞机上的宇航员在对哈勃望远镜一系列的修复和升级之后将其释放回太空中。 Astronaut Mega... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-19 Scientists have shown there may be biochemical reasons - quite apart from the mental trauma of diagnosis - why cancer patients can become depressed. 科学家发现，可能是生化原因而非精神上的创伤导致癌症病人沮丧。 Cancer patients often struggle with dep... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-19 A three-minute test for prostate cancer is being developed by scientists. 科学家正在研究三分钟前列腺癌快速检测。 Prostate cancer kills 10,000 men in the UK each year The test works by shining a light through a fluid sample to determine levels of a m... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-19 Shuttle Atlantis astronauts have completed the fifth and final spacewalk to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. 阿特兰蒂斯号飞船航天员完成第五次太空行走，完成了对哈勃望远镜的最终修复。 John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel renewed the observatory's batteri... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-18 Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer's disease, research suggests. 调查建议，通过工作来保持大脑活力是预防老年痴呆的有效方法。 Keeping mentally active is key Researchers analysed data from 1,... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-18 Scientists say they have begun to crack the genetic code that helps determine when a girl becomes a woman. 科学家宣布，他们已经开始解码决定女孩什么时候变成女人的基因。 The genes were found on chromosomes six and nine A UK-led team located two genes... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-18 Equipment problems have bedevilled the penultimate space walk to repair the aging Hubble telescope. 太空行走修复老化哈勃望远镜的仪器问题。 Nasa hopes the repairs will give Hubble at least five more years of service Two astronauts took eight hours to... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-18 Europe has rolled out its last major module for the space station. 欧洲放出空间站的主模块。 Node 3 will now be flown to the US The cylindrical（圆柱的） Node 3 - to be known as Tranquility - was constructed by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. On... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-16 A common heart disorder has been linked to a raised risk of Alzheimer's disease by US researchers. 美国研究人员发现，普通的心脏病可能有患阿尔茨海默氏病的风险。 Atrial fibrillation causes a chaotic heartbeat Atrial fibrillation（心房纤维性颤动） caus... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-16 Researchers have demonstrated white, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) sources with the same efficiency as fluorescent light bulbs. 研究人员展示了白色有机发光二极管跟荧光灯泡有一样的效率。 The devices are flat - another reason they are desirable a... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-15 Using simulators to train surgeons makes them quicker and better, a study shows. 一项调查显示，可以使用模拟程序来训练外科医生，使他们的技术更快、更好。 Computer simulators are used in the NHS, but they are not widespread The Danish research comes af... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-15 A gene can explain why some women find it more difficult to stop smoking during pregnancy, say UK researchers. 英国调查者称，一组基因可以解释为什么有些妇女发现在怀孕期间难于戒烟。 Around 30% of the women in the study smoked before getting pregnant I... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-15 Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say. 英国研究人员称，禽流感可能对人类没有威胁，因为我们的鼻子里温度低，病毒没法繁殖。 Human flu viruses thri... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-15 Europe's Herschel and Planck telescopes have blasted into space on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou in French Guiana. 欧盟的Herschel和Planck天文望远镜已经搭载Ariane 5在法属圭亚那的库鲁地区升空。 The satellites are being sent into orbit to gather funda... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-15 The collapse of a major polar ice sheet will not raise global sea levels as much as previous projections suggest, a team of scientists has calculated. 一组科学家通过计算得出，大块极地冰的崩溃不会使海平面上涨。 A 3.3m sea level rise will still have a... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-14 Chemicals found in many food, cosmetic and cleaning products pose a real threat to male fertility, a leading scientist has warned. 一位领导科学家警告道，很多食物里、化妆品和清洁品里存在的化学物对雄性可育性是个威胁。 Chemicals may disrupt male develo... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-14 Men really do have an excuse for supposedly being wimpy about coughs and colds - their immune systems are not as strong as women's, research suggests. 调查显示，男人在理论上患咳嗽和感冒概率大点--他们的免疫系统没有女人的强。 The weaker sex? A Canadia... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-14 One of the most important launches in European spaceflight history is about to take place in French Guiana. 法国圭亚那将会发生欧洲航天历史上重要的一次发射。 It will be the most valuable science launch in European spaceflight history Two telescopes w... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-05-14 Web giant Google has unveiled new products that it says will push search in a new direction. 网络巨头谷歌发布新产品，称将会把搜索推向一个新方向。 Google says users are becoming more sophisticated at search Google is using so-called semantic web（语... 阅读全文>> |
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