2020-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If the legal route was barred by injunctions or contempt of court, he made his cause a moral one. He ran the story over several pages under a banner headline, and week by week foun

2020-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺版块Colour in art
艺术中的颜色Paint it black
把它涂成黑色The colour black has long been the ultimate test of an artist’s ingenuity
黑色一直是对艺术家创造力的终

2020-11-18 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Social media under fire. Top executives of tech giants faced off with U.S. lawmakers today. Amna Nawaz reports. AMNA NAWAZ: A barrage of questions and criticism for

2020-11-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
Happy New Year! And if you've been away from work for a few days, you deserve some time off. Af&#652

2020-11-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Harold Evans, editor and publisher, died on September 23rd, aged 92
编辑、出版人哈罗德·埃文斯于9月23日逝世，享年92岁。On that day in 1981 when he first sat at the pinnacle of Bri

2020-11-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Bristling to work
竖着工作In tests with a number of unnamed battery companies, Dr Boulanger says VACNT electrodes achieved an energy density of 500wh/kg in one battery and up to 1

2020-11-17 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: No matter what age you are, it has undeniably been a year of many firsts. Between COVID and the election of the first woman vice president, 2020 will be a year for

2020-11-17 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
How old is your four-legged best friend? Common wisdom says that a dog ages seven years for every h

2020-11-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

According to a paper its inventors published recently in Nature Communications, the Graz cell's performance exceeds that of a Li-ion battery. It is able, for example, to cope w

2020-11-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Questions in such tests may ask a candidate to describe their behaviour in hypothetical situations: dealing with an angry customer, for example. The suggested answers may all be pl

2020-11-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
You never know if your loved ones are going to like what you bought 'em for the holidays.

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Superbatteries
超级电池What do you get when you cross a hare with a tortoise?
乌龟和兔子交配产下的种Mixing supercapacitors and batteries may give electric cars what they need to

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

None of the attackers in Dresden, Paris, Nice or Vienna is thought to have reached Iraq or Syria. Though the Dresden suspect had been convicted of recruiting on behalf of IS and do

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On November 2nd the Chinese central bank and banking regulator published new draft rules for online micro-lending, which looked almost perfectly tailored to undercut Ant. Online le

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bartleby
巴托比专栏Questionable behaviour
别有用心的行为Companies are relying more and more on psychometric tests
公司们越来越依赖心理计量测验Here is a test.

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Capacitors, by contrast—whether basic or "super"—consist of a pair of electrically conductive plates placed either side of a separator material. When a voltage is applied to thes

2020-11-13 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: This morning in Jerusalem, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat died after a month-long battle with COVID-19. Long a fixture of Palestinian politics, Erekat led p

2020-11-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Regulators v Ant Group
监管者 V 蚂蚁集团Ant agonises
热锅上的蚂蚁The world's biggest IPO is now the world's biggest suspended IPO
世界上最大的IPO现在是世界上最大的暂缓IP

2020-11-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The flurry of attacks recalls the bloodshed of 2015 to 16, when Islamist terrorists killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo’s offices in January 2015, 131 people at multiple sites in Pa

2020-11-12 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: For more perspective on this news, I'm joined now by Miles O'Brien, our science correspondent. He has been covering the hunt for a vaccine throughout this

2020-11-12 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
All mammals have hair—commonly called fur when it's on your cat or a koala. And the thickness of in

2020-11-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Europe
欧洲板块Terrorism in Europe
欧洲恐怖主义Oh Vienna
噢，维也纳Despite the horrors in Austria and France, jihadism has declined
尽管奥地利和法国的恐怖主义事件频发，但圣战主

2020-11-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
There's a lot of advertising mythology about what causes dandruff. Like this:
(CLIP: "Her

2020-11-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
About 12,000 species of tiger moth exist on Earth. Some of them swoop and dive out of harm's

2020-11-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Policy seems to play a powerful role in explaining the collapse in full-time employment in the east. Despite some recent changes, the policies of unified Germany, like those of the