Finance and Economics 财经 Free exchange 自由交流 Better, stronger, faster 更好、更强、更快 Labour-monitoring technologies raise efficiencyand hard questions. 劳动力监督技术在提高效率的同时也带来种种难题。 Bosses...
Apples market capitalisation rose to over $800bn for the first time. 苹果公司的市值首次突破8000亿美元。 The companys share price is up by 32% since the start of the year, 本年初，公司的股价增长了32%， buoyed in part by ren...
The World This Week - Business 本周 - 商业 AkzoNobel, a Dutch maker of paints and coatings, rejected a third informal takeover offer, worth 26.9bn euros ($28.8bn), from PPG, an American rival. 荷兰油漆涂料公司AkzoNobel拒绝了美国对手...
At the same time a growing number of private firms have ambitions to mine precious metals from those celestial bodies, too. 同时，许多私营公司都有从那些天体中开采贵金属的野心。 One of the (many) problems that NASA and the sp...
Science and technology: Space exploration: Dusting yourself down 科技：空间探索：拂去尘埃 A new space suit could resist the damaging effects of sharp lunar dust. 一款新型的宇航服能够抵抗尖利的月尘带来的破坏性影响。...
Ultimately, the idea is that the algorithm will also learn from the experiences of its brethren in other cars, by arranging for all such systems to share their data online. 最终，通过数据在线分享的方式，可以获得其他车辆所获得的...
Science and technology: Vehicle engine management: Intelligence test 科技：车辆引擎管理：智能测试 A computer program that learns how to save fuel 一种习得省油的电脑程序 From avoiding jaywalkers to emergency braking to eventua...
He and his colleagues noted parallel changes in the genes for three digestive enzymes whose job is to liberate two particular amino acids, lysine and arginine, from proteins. 他的团队发现三种消化酶基因相似的改变，这些消化酶的作...
熊猫遗传学:熊猫的第二拇指(1) The anatomy-related adaptations were those that seemed to control the development of the pandas second thumbs. 与生物体结构相关的基因有可能控制熊猫第二拇指的生长。 Two genes in partic...
And most curiously of all, both have a sixth digit on their forepawsa kind of ancillarythumb derived from one of the bones of the wrist that helps them hold bamboo stalks for consumption. 最令人惊奇的是，它们的前爪上都长有第六指，是...
