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新奇事件簿 专家称女性应在35岁前生育
A top expert has said women should have babies before they are 35 years old. Professor Mary Herbert from the UK's University of Newcastle said the age of 35 is like when the clock strikes 12. She said that after that age, it is riskier for a woman to
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新奇事件簿 饥饿影响全球八分之一人口
A new report from the United Nations says one in eight people around the world does not have enough food. The U.N. reports that 842 million people suffer from very serious hunger. This is about 12 per cent of the world population. This percentage has
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新奇事件簿 社交网站晒自拍危害人际关系
A study from the U.K. indicates that people who post too many selfies (photos of themselves) on Facebook and similar social networks risk damaging their real-life relationships. Wikipedia says a selfie is a genre of self-portrait photographtypically
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新奇事件簿 职场母亲是否面临歧视?
More than one in four British mothers who have returned to work feel discriminated against. This is according to a survey conducted by the legal firm Slater and Gordon (Samp;G). Researchers questioned 1,975 women about their experiences in the workpl
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新奇事件簿 沉迷网络?精神健康可能出现问题
A new survey suggests that people who use the Internet too much may have mental health problems. The survey said that people who are addicted to the Internet have problems in life if they cannot get online regularly. The survey is from McMaster Unive
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新奇事件簿 悲伤的电影可以缓解痛苦
Watching sad or traumatic movies can sometimes be just what the doctor ordered. A new study reveals that watching distressing movies may boost our tolerance to pain. Researchers at Oxford University say that movies that get your emotions going can in
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新奇事件簿 科学家发现抑郁分子
Scientists say they have discovered the part of the brain that is responsible for us feeling miserable, anxious and stressed. A UK-based medical research company called Heptares Therapeutics said it has located the molecule related to depression. It
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新奇事件簿 菜单显示消耗热量所需运动更有助减肥
New research reveals that restaurant menus showing how much exercise is needed to burn off calories could be good for losing weight. Researchers from the Texas Christian University say that telling customers how many minutes they must walk to burn of
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新奇事件簿 给婴儿喂食花生和鸡蛋可避免成年后过敏
Many people have a food allergy to things like eggs and peanuts. An allergy to peanuts can be deadly. However, researchers from Imperial College London say that feeding eggs and peanuts to babies may stop them getting allergies when they are older. T
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新奇事件簿 科学家称能够重现梦境
Japanese scientists say they have found a way to read people's dreams. Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for what they say is, the world's first decoding of night-time visions. Their
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新奇事件簿 男模特收入比女模特少75%
It is common knowledge and an obvious example of sexual inequality that men get paid more than women for doing the same job. One industry in which the reverse is true is modeling. The gender pay gap for male models and their female counterparts is gi
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新奇事件簿 研究显示金钱会让我们忧虑
A new study from the BBC shows that looking after money isn't easy. Over 109,000 people took part in the BBC's Big Money Test. It was one of the biggest ever studies on the psychology of money. One of the biggest findings is that money makes many peo
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新奇事件簿 现金回报更能激励人们减肥
Nutritionists and dieting experts have long sought the answer to how to encourage people to lose weight. It seems overweight people are more interested in the size of their wallets than their waistlines. Researchers in the USA may have found one answ
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新奇事件簿 专家称骑自行车污染环境
An American lawmaker has said cycling is bad for the environment. He also said cyclists should pay a tax to ride their bikes on the roads. Ed Orcutt, a representative from Washington State, sent an e-mail to the owner of a local bike shop to outline
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新奇事件簿 说英语会让你更贫穷
An economics professor has said English speakers may be poorer because of English grammar. Dr Keith Chen of Yale University suggested that differences in the tenses of the world's languages may explain why people in some countries save more money tha
