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2021年经济学人 比尔盖茨携手巴菲特共建新一代核电站(1)
Nuclear power 核能 Atoms for greenery 绿色原子 Bill Gates's latest venture is a new-style nuclear reactor 比尔盖茨的最新投资是一种新型核反应堆 Since handing over the reins as Microsoft's chief executive in 2000, Bill Gates has
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2021年经济学人 比尔盖茨携手巴菲特共建新一代核电站(2)
Natrium employs hot, liquid sodium as a coolant, and dispenses with the moderator entirely. 钠采用热的液态钠作为冷却剂，完全省去了慢化剂。 This is another idea that dates back to the 1950s, but one which has never been widely d
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2021年经济学人 比尔盖茨携手巴菲特共建新一代核电站(3)
It all looks good on paper. But then, nuclear power always does. The industry has been plagued by delays and cost overruns for decades. 从纸上看一切都很好。但话说回来，核能总是如此。 Existing sodium-cooled reactors, most of whi
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2021年经济学人 隧道杀手,让你无处遁形(1)
Underground warfare 地道战 Tunnel vision 隧道视觉 A new system of sensors can detect troglodytic enemy activity 一种新的传感器系统可以探测到穴道敌人的活动 From the collapsing of city walls during medieval sieges, to the la
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2021年经济学人 隧道杀手,让你无处遁形(2)
Resead's real secret, though, is in the way it handles the incoming data. 然而，Resead真正的秘密在于它处理传入数据的方式。 First, these are pre-crunched by powerful hardware built into the sensors themselves. 首先，传感器本身
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2021年经济学人 恐龙曾“落户”北极(1)
Science technology 科技板块 Palaeontology 古生物学 Arctic dinosaurs 北极的恐龙 Dinosaurs once flourished near the North Pole 恐龙曾经在北极附近繁盛 Most artistic impressions of dinosaurs picture them in lush forests or on vast
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2021年经济学人 恐龙曾“落户”北极(2)
Until now, no such hatchlings had been found, and the only known polar dinosaur eggs were from the Kakanaut formation of north-eastern Russia, which was only just within the Arctic Circle when its rocks were laid down. 到目前为止，还没有发现
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2021年经济学人 会唱歌的鸟儿爱吃糖(1)
Science technology 科技板块 The origin of songbirds 鸣禽的起源 The sweet taste of success 成功的甜蜜滋味 Songbirds can detect sugar. That may explain their ubiquity 鸣禽可以探测到糖，这或许可以解释它们无处不在的原
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2021年经济学人 会唱歌的鸟儿爱吃糖(2)
To find out, they cloned T1R1-T1R3 receptors from a variety of songbirds and tested their responses to sugar. 为了找到答案，他们从各种鸣禽中克隆了T1R1-T1R3受体，并测试了它们对糖的反应。 All the receptors they testedfr
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2021年经济学人 火山卤水矿,真正的绿色来源(1)
Science technology 科技板块 Copper gushers 铜井 Brine mines 卤水矿 People may one day drill for copper as they now drill for oil 也许有一天，人们会像现在开采石油一样开采铜 Copper was the first metal worked by human being
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2021年经济学人 火山卤水矿,真正的绿色来源(2)
As he writes in Open Science, he suspects these are found beneath every active and dormant volcano, though the concentration of copper in the brine concerned will vary from place to place. 正如他在《开放科学》中所写的那样，他怀疑在
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2021年经济学人 东京奥运会--新型跑鞋
Science technology 科技板块 Sports equipment 体育用品 Getting a leg up 抢占上风 New running shoes could help smash a string of Olympic records 新型跑鞋有望打破一系列奥运纪录 Platform shoes are back in fashion, at least in a
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2021年经济学人 中国“杂交水稻之父”袁隆平逝世(1)
Obituary 讣告 Yuan Longping 袁隆平 To feed the world 愿天下再无粮忧 Yuan Longping, developer of hybrid rice, died on May 22nd, aged 90 杂交水稻之父袁隆平于5月22日辞世,享年90岁 He was wandering in a ricefield of dreams. Th
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2021年经济学人 中国“杂交水稻之父”袁隆平逝世(2)
Higher rice-yields allowed farmers to turn more land to other usesfruit, vegetables, fishpondsso that people not only ate more, but ate well. 更高的水稻产量让农民能够把一部分土地用来种植水果蔬菜，或是建造鱼塘等其他用
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2021年经济学人 史上最孤独的人:迈克尔·柯林斯(1)
Obituary: Michael Collins 讣告：迈克尔柯林斯 The third man 第三人 Michael Collins, astronaut, died on April 28th, aged 90 宇航员迈克尔柯林斯，于4月28日离世，享年90岁 The moon that filled the window of the spacecraft Col
