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Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky, and here's a short piece from the June 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine.

大家好，我是《科学美国人》播客编辑史蒂夫·米尔斯基，以下是本杂志2019年6月刊的一篇短文，摘自“进展：科学、技术和医学前沿快报”版块。

The article is titled "Quick Hits," and it's a rundown of some science and technology stories from around the globe compiled by editorial contributor Jim Daley. 

这篇文章名为《要闻快讯》，汇集了全球各地科学和技术新闻报道的摘要，由编辑撰稿人吉姆·戴利整理。

From Canada:

加拿大：

Archaeologists have now confirmed that a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found in the 1990s at a fossil site in Saskatchewan is the biggest and heaviest on record. At nearly 42 feet long and almost 20,000 pounds, "Scotty" surpassed the record set by "Sue", which was found in South Dakota in 1990.

考古学家证实，上世纪90年代在萨斯喀彻温省一处化石遗址发现的霸王龙骨架是有记录以来最大最重的。“斯科蒂”体长近42英尺，体重近2万磅，超越了1900年在南达科他州发现的著名霸王龙“苏”创下的记录。

From Argentina:

阿根廷：

Archaeologists identified a site where ancient humans killed and butchered giant ground sloths¹ (Megatherium americanum) in the Pampas region in eastern Argentina. The find provides evidence that humans contributed to the sloths' extinction².

考古学家在阿根廷东部潘帕斯地区发现了一处遗址，古代人类在那里杀害并屠宰巨型地懒（美洲大地懒）。这一发现提供了证据，证明人类对地懒的灭绝负有责任。

From Kenya:

肯尼亚：

A science teacher who won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize announced he intends to donate the $1-million award to benefit society. Peter Tabichi, a Franciscan friar, mentors³ a science club that came in first in its category in the 2018 Kenya Science and Engineering Fair.

一名获得2019年“全球教师奖”的科学老师宣布，他打算捐赠100万美元造福社会。圣方济各会教士彼得·塔比奇是一家科学俱乐部的导师，该俱乐部在2018年肯尼亚科学与工程博览会上获得了同类奖项的第一名。

From autonomous⁴ island of Anjouan in the Union of the Comoros, that's in the Indian Ocean between the east coast of africa and the north west end of madagascar:

科摩罗联邦中的昂儒昂自治岛（位于印度洋上非洲东海岸和马达加斯加西北端之间）：

Geochemists at Columbia University found a lode⁵ of quartzite, a metamorphic rock formed from sandstone, on the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan. The island is volcanic⁶ and had been thought to contain only igneous⁷ rocks.

哥伦比亚大学的地球化学家在印度洋昂儒昂岛上发现了一个石英岩矿脉，石英岩是由砂岩形成的变质岩。昂儒昂岛由火山喷发形成，曾被认为只含火成岩。

And from North Korea:

朝鲜：

Physicists⁸ at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang have brokered⁹ a rare agreement to collaborate¹⁰ with Italy's International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. The North Koreans will study computational neuroscience with Italian physicists.

平壤金日成大学的物理学家促成了一项罕见的协议，与意大利的里雅斯德市的国际高等研究院合作。朝鲜物理学家将与意大利物理学家一起研究计算神经科学。

That was Quick Hits, by Jim Daley.

以上是吉姆·戴利整理的《要闻快讯》。