日期：2012-05-16 More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing conflict with Sudan, the UN is warning. 联合国警告，由于与苏丹持续冲突的影响，南苏丹超过半数的人口正面临食物匮乏的境况。 It says fighting on the border betw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-16 The Cannes Film Festival opens later with US director Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom. 今年戛纳电影节将以美国导演韦斯安德森的电影 《月升王国》开... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-13 New research suggests that most managers are failing to get the best out of their employees. 新调查显示，大多数主管都无法充分发挥员工的价值。 The findings have highlighted the growing unrest amongst workers towards those in charge - which is also un... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-11 Archaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Mayan civilisation have reported striking finds, including the oldest-known Mayan astronomical tables. 工作在玛雅文明Xultun废墟中的考古学家取得惊人发现，他们发现一处最古老的玛雅天文表。 The preservat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-09 The quantity of small plastic fragments floating in the north-east Pacific Ocean has increased a hundred fold over the past 40 years. 太平洋东北部海域上漂浮的小塑料片的数量在过去40年间增 加了100倍。 The Scripps team trawled the surface of the ocean... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-09 One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. 最新结果显示，1/6的癌症每年全球大约有两百万人患病主要是由可治愈或可预防的感染引起。 The Lancet Infectious Diseases r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-08 The public should be vigilant about persistent coughs as they could be a sign of lung cancer. 公众应该对持续咳嗽保持警惕，因为这可能是肺癌的迹象。 The campaign, which is being run in TV, radio, print and online media, recommends people with coughs l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-05 A website has pulled together some of the ugliest web pages on Earth and they're all still going strong, despite having been designed in the 'good old days'. 一家名为来自地狱的网站正致力于汇集全世界最丑的网站，这些中选网站多数诞生于互联网产生初期，... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-05 近日发布在自然母亲网络的一篇文章指出，纯素食也有潜在的健康风险，比如，纯素食者患肠癌的几率更高、骨矿物密度偏低，以及更容易缺乏维生素B12等等。 Thinking of giving up meat from your diet? The potential health benefits of a green diet are well establish... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-05 5月4日到10月7日，英国白金汉宫的女王美术馆将举办题为达芬奇：解剖学家的展览，将展出著名画家达芬奇的87幅解剖画作。据介绍，达芬奇在当时共解剖了大约30具人体标本，做了上百幅解剖画稿，不过这些作品直到1900年才被发表并得到科学界的认可。 An employee of the Qu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 Fifteen million babies, one in ten births, are born prematurely every year, a global project suggests. 一项全球项目显示，每年有1/10、大约1500万婴儿是早产儿。 One million of these babies die soon after birth. The joint report, led by the WHO, says th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's The Scream has become the most expensive art work sold at auction as it went for $119.9m. 挪威表现派艺术家爱德华蒙克的作品《呐喊》以1.199亿美元价格被拍卖，成为史上最贵艺术品。 The 1895 pastel（粉笔画） was boug... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-28 Honesty is often said to be the best policy in social situations but being yourself at work is not a good idea for your career, research suggests. 人们常说诚实是处世的最佳策略，然而研究显示，在职场中做真实的自己并不利于你的事业发展。 While revealing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-26 Bowel cancer patients who take daily aspirin could cut their chance of dying from the disease by about a third, experts believe. 专家们相信，肠癌患者每天服用阿司匹林能将死亡率降低1/3。 A study in the British Journal of Cancer looked at 4,500 bowel c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-26 There is still no evidence mobile phones harm human health, says a major safety review for the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA). 英国健康保护署一项安全检查称，目前仍没有证据证明手机危害人体健康。 Scientists looked at hundreds of studies of mobile... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-25 All's Well That Ends Well has another author as well as William Shakespeare, according to research from Oxford University academics. 牛津大学学术社的研究显示，《终成眷属》除了威廉莎士比亚之外还有另一位作者托马斯米德尔顿。 Thomas Middleton has been r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 Scientists have made what they believe to be the first sighting of an adult white orca, or killer whale. 科学家首次发现一只成年白色逆戟鲸，又称杀人鲸。 Iceberg is believed to be the first mature white orca observed The adult male, which they have ni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-21 Want to insult a woman? Then offer her a compliment. 想侮辱一个女人吗？那就赞美她吧。 Only half of women actually enjoy being praised and many others misinterpret well-meant words as offensive, according to new research. And you look well is one of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-21 Working with temps harms your health and wealth. Not only will you suffer anxiety attacks, you'll get paid less too, according to a new report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). 英国国家经济和社会研究学院的一项新报... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-20 Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. 科学家称，众所周知的干旱大陆非洲实际上坐落在一片广阔的地下水库之上。 They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers（蓄水层） underground is... 阅读全文>>