Science and Technology: Solar physics and paleontology: Set in stone 科技：太阳物理和古生物学：石事求是 An ancient forest reveals the suns behaviour 290m years ago. 远古树木向人们揭示二亿九千万年前的太阳活动情况。...
In 2011 Hector Levesque of the University of Toronto became annoyed by systems that passed the Turing Test by joking and avoiding direct answers. 2011年多伦多大学Hector Levesque对那些靠开玩笑和不直接回答问题通过图灵测试的系...
Technology Quarterly 科技季刊 Technology Quarterly on language: Brain scan: Terry Winograd 科技季刊：脑部扫描：特里威诺格拉德 The Winograd Schema tests computers' understanding of the real world. Winograd模式测试计算机对真...
Pregnancy, then, does indeed do things to a womans brain. 那么怀孕确实对母亲的大脑有影响。 But what exactly those things mean is hard to tease out. 但是具体对大脑有什么影响很难弄清。 Neuroscientists do not really unde...
Science and technology: Neuroscience: Brain mater 科技：神经科学：脑膜 Scanning reveals what pregnancy does to a mothers brain. 扫描揭示了怀孕对母亲大脑的影响。 As any parent will tell you, once you have had children nothing...
Dr Molnar s interest was piqued at a conference in 2013, when Karen Kinemuchi, another astronomer, Molnar博士的兴趣源于2013年的一次会议，当时一位叫做Karen Kinemuchi的天文学家提出， presented some puzzling findings on a par...
Science and Techonology 科技 Astronomy: De Nova Stella 天文学：新星诞生 Astronomers predict a Stella explosion will happen in 5 years time. 天文学家预测5年之内会发生一次星际爆炸 Amateur astronomers have a new date for thei...
It is a modified version of a commercially available robot quadcopter, 42mm across. (By comparison, a honeybee worker is about 15mm long.) 它就是市面上可以见到的那种四轴飞行器，只不过经过了改装，全长仅为42mm（相比之下...
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...
