2020-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Last year, Google unveiled Duplex, its artificial-intelligence-powered assistant.
"How can I help y

2020-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Babies are constantly surrounded by human language, always listening and processing. Eventually, they p

2020-09-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal conscience of America’s Supreme Court, died on September 18th, aged 87
美国最高法院的自由派良知鲁斯·巴德·金斯伯格于9月18日逝世，享年87岁。On th

2020-09-30 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Cruise ship companies are waiting to learn this Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control whether their billion-dollar vessels can soon set sail again. They hav

2020-09-30 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.S. presidential race is focused tonight on a potentially critical question: Will President Trump accept the election results if he loses? He won't say expl

2020-09-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Small European enclaves have given financial regulators big headaches in the past.
过去，一些欧洲小国曾让金融监管机构头疼不已。Two of them, San Marino and the Vatican, will be vis

2020-09-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The stolid approach has paid off in the pandemic. Sales will probably drop this year because of store and factory closures in the spring. But Hermes looks in better shape than its

2020-09-29 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: The NewsHour has confirmed tonight that President Trump will nominate federal appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. A senior White Hous

2020-09-29 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
You know how in the Road Runner cartoons, whenever something drops—like Wile E. Coyote f&#652

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Hermes might have struggled to compete head-on. So instead— and this is the wise part—it played to its strengths. While rivals flocked to the fashionable, ostentatious and cuttin

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Plenty of companies, particularly those with family histories, resist the lure of takeovers by bigger rivals. Often the decision is guided by pride rather than financial sense. Her

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business 商业版块Schumpeter 熊彼特专栏The one that got away 逃脱的品牌Hermes seemed destined to become part of LVMH’s luxury empire. Not so fast 爱马仕似乎注定要成为酩悦&midd

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

South Africa’s economy was 16.4% smaller in the second quarter compared with the first, the worst contraction since the 1990s. Infections from COVID-19 have slowed, allowing

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

His nom de guerre, Duch, meant the schoolboy who stood up when his master asked him to. He may have hated the prison work, but he faithfully repeated the slogans. “Our party makes

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Buildings and communities can be built in such a way that fires sweep through them—or better still, around them—leaving them more-or-less intact.
建筑和社区建可以以这样一种方式建

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Business
经济A sell-off in tech stocks led to the worst trading period for the Nasdaq since mid-March, at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Over a

2020-09-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Some 5,600 years ago, people in the Egyptian city of Hierakonpolis did something that's still a very

2020-09-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Flood mitigation is essential. Yet though Japan and South Korea have few climate-change deniers, the sense that warming is a problem generated elsewhere has persisted for too long,

2020-09-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

California burns every year. But amid a record-breaking heatwave, 2020 is the fieriest year yet.
加利福尼亚每年都在燃烧。但在一场破纪录的热浪中，2020年是迄今为止最火热的一年。As T

2020-09-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He kept his usual neat record of what was done to resisters. “About 20 whippings with fine rattan.” “20-30 whippings with electrical wire.” “Stuffing with water.” He claimed

2020-09-24 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: At the Supreme Court, eight justices gathered alongside family and friends of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to remember her life and the many years she spent on the bench. Yam

2020-09-24 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
When we think about pets, we often consider dogs to be overly attentive and cats, well, a bit more aloof

2020-09-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On September 8th Kim Jong Un, the North’s dictator, assembled his top brass to review the damage a week earlier from the second of the typhoons, Maysak, which destroyed 2,000 home

2020-09-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

During the pandemic, CMES such as Germany have generally had a more coherent strategy for containing the spread of the virus.
在疫情期间，CMES，如德国，通常有一套更协调一致的策略来

2020-09-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Asia 亚洲板块Banyan 榕树专栏The new weather gods 新的气象神Floods and storms force Japan and South Korea to think harder about climate change 洪水和风暴肆虐，日本和韩国被迫更加认真