Science and Technology 科技 Pollination: Why the bees sucks? 授粉：为何雄蜂很差劲？ Plans for artificial pollinators are afoot. 人造授粉者计划蓄势待发 It is, in one way, the ultimate drone. 人造雄蜂堪称终极的飞行利器...
Dr Hare and his colleagues took 43 men and 51 women, all of them straight, and gave them two tasks. Hare博士和他的同事们找了43名男性和51名女性，他们都是异性恋，给了他们两个任务。 One was to decide whether an androgy...
Science and Technology 科技 Sexual Attractiveness: My chemical romance 性感吸引：我的化学浪漫 Two putative human sex pheromones turn out not to be. 关于人类的两种性信息素的假说被证明是不成立的。 For several decades...
寻找新抗生素:巨蜥血的48种功效(2) With that in mind, and working with the St Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida, Dr Bishop obtained fresh Komodo dragon blood. 有了这种想法，Bishop博士和弗罗里达圣奥古斯丁的...
Science and Technology 科技 Finding new antibiotics: The 48 uses of dragon's blood 寻找新抗生素：巨蜥血的48种功效 Komodo dragons could be the source for a new generation of antibiotics 科莫多巨蜥可成为新一代抗生素的来源...
Science and Technology 科技 Peopling the Americas: Checkpoint 迁徙美洲：检查站 The first migrants to the new world had to wait 8000 years to be admitted. 新大陆的第一批移民在8000年后才被公认。 HOW America was originally col...
To ensure that the platforms do not favour their own products, oversight groups could be set up to deliberate on complaints from rivals 要确保平台不偏袒自己的产品，可以设立监督小组来审议对手的投诉， a bit like the indep...
The European Commission has accused Google of using control of Android, its mobile operating system, to give its own apps a leg up. 欧盟委员会指控谷歌利用其移动操作系统安卓预装自家的应用。 Facebook keeps buying firms which...
The platforms have become so dominant because they benefit from network effects. 这些平台之所以能够称霸，原因在于网络效应。 Size begets size: the more sellers Amazon, say, can attract, the more buyers will shop there, which attra...
Leaders 领导者 Taming the titans 驯服巨人 Google, Facebook and Amazon are increasingly dominant. How should they be controlled? 谷歌、Facebook和亚马逊的统治力越来越强。该如何控制它们？ Not long ago, being the boss of a...
