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新奇事件簿 污染成世界头号杀手
A new study has found that pollution is now the world's biggest killer. One in six deaths worldwide is because of pollution. This is 16 per cent of all global deaths. Most of these deaths were from non-infectious diseases caused by pollution. These i
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新奇事件簿 少女自残率出现激增
There has been a steep rise in reports of self-harm among young teenage girls in the United Kingdom. A new study from the British Medical Journal reports that more and more girls aged 13 to 16 suffer from self-inflicted harm. Researchers from the Uni
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新奇事件簿 马铃薯短缺造成薯片末日
Potato lovers in New Zealand could be in for a big shock. New Zealand is facing a possible potato shortage in the next few months. This means there could be a lack of potato chips (crisps in British English) until next year. Newspapers are calling th
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新奇事件簿 青少年比成年人更青睐语音搜索
More and more people are speaking to their computers or mobile devices to search for things online or on their hard drives. Voice recognition technology, like Google's Voice Search or Apple's Siri, means our technology is beginning to understand what
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新奇事件簿 世界最无用的机场投入使用
The first scheduled commercial airplane has landed on the remote British island of St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic. The SA Airlink service from South Africa touched down at Saint Helena Airport on Saturday with 68 passengers on board. O
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新奇事件簿 世界各地妈妈对孩子说话语调相同
A new study has found that mothers all over the world speak to their babies in the same way. The research is from the Baby Lab at Princeton University in the USA. The researchers who did the study said motherese is a universal language. They said bab
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新奇事件簿 女子整容手术后滞留机场
Three Chinese women were left stranded at a South Korean airport after immigration officials said their passport photos did not match their faces. The women had just had cosmetic surgery to change their looks. The surgery had transformed their faces
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新奇事件簿 研究发现孩子不吃青菜原因
Everyone knows that many young children don't like eating their greens. Parents have a hard time getting their children to eat vegetables like broccoli and Brussel sprouts. A new study may have an answer about why this is. The study looked at the eat
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新奇事件簿 手机影响学生考试分数
There is bad news for students who like to use their mobile phones while they study. New research shows that students do not learn very well when they are texting and checking their social media accounts. The research is called: Mobile Phones in the
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新奇事件簿 瑞安航空承诺发放奖金保障航班正常
The boss of Europe's biggest low-cost airline has promised to increase the pay and working conditions of pilots to stop them leaving the company. Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair, made a personal pledge to the budget carrier's 4,200 pilots to address
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新奇事件簿 科学家因分子机器获诺贝尔化学奖
The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to three scientists for their work on photographing molecules. Professors Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will share the $1,090,000 prize. They developed a special way of taking photos
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新奇事件簿 购物自己提东西让老人更强壮
There is new advice for older people to keep their strength up and live longer carry your own shopping. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) in the UK says it is imperative for the over-65s to keep active to maintain their strength as they ag
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新奇事件簿 植物园拯救濒危植物
Scientists say that many of the world's plants are in danger of dying out or becoming extinct. Dr Paul Smith from Botanic gardens Concervation Internacional said one in five of the world's plants is in danger of extinction. Botanic gardens contain ab
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新奇事件簿 奥地利全面禁止面纱
A new law in Austria means there is now a ban on full-face veils. This means Muslim women will not be allowed to wear a full-face veil in public in the country. The new law says faces must be visible from the hairline to the chin. The government said
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新奇事件簿 加泰罗尼亚工人举行独立罢工
A general strike in Spain's region of Catalonia on Tuesday brought large parts of Barcelona and other cities to a standstill. Thousands of Catalans rallied and blocked roads to protest over Spanish police violence during Sunday's independence referen
