2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块A perfect storm
屋漏偏逢连夜雨Light a candle for the kids
为孩子们点一支蜡烛The freeze in Texas exposes America’s infrastructural failings
得州的冻结暴露

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That adventure was to last a lifetime. Over the decades he won 23 Grammys and 67 nominations for his reinvigoration of jazz. He played to packed houses the world over, touring with

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

To date a specimen, fragments of its DNA are compared to corresponding chunks from known descendants. Armed with a few evolutionary rules-of-thumb, scientists can calculate how lon

2021-03-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
More than 1,500 feet below the surface of the ocean, it's darker than a moonless night. But even in

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Much like other central banks, the ECB wants to offer consumers digital tender that is as safe as physical cash. Unlike bank deposits, a claim on central-bank reserves carries no c

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Digital currencies 数字货币Token gestures 代币行动Bitcoin grabs the headlines, but the real action is at central banks 比特币常常占据新闻头条，但真正的进展发生在各国央行Anyone who

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

His first job will be to try to turn the firm’s ailing manufacturing division around. Intel already outsources the manufacturing of some lower-end chips to TSMC. Its producti

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Palaeontology
古生物学Very, very long in the tooth
牙齿很长很长Million-year-old mammoth genomes push the limits of a revolutionary technique
百万年前的猛犸象基因组突破了一项革命

2021-03-05 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: a message from country star Dolly Parton. Parton, who helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine, received her COVID-19 shot on Tuesday, get

2021-03-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Adam Levy.
Who's your favorite superhero? Captain Marvel? Superman? Well, in a minute, you might just change your

2021-03-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Manufacturing stumbles have cost it business. AMD, its most direct rival, outsources production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), whose technology is now ahead

2021-03-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Intel
英特尔Hard reboot
硬重启Can Pat Gelsinger turn the chipmaking giant around?
帕特·盖尔辛格能扭转芯片制造业巨头英特尔的颓势吗？“Success breeds complacenc

2021-03-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

An American judge ruled that a group of creditors that mistakenly received $500m from Citigroup did not have to repay the money to the bank. The creditors are in dispute with Revlo

2021-03-02 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.S. House of Representatives is on the verge of passing a $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, even after Democrats suffered a setback on one of their key prioritie

2021-03-02 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
As long as humans have been building cities, wildlife has been fleeing from them. After all, cities are

2021-03-01 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 商业板块In an unexpected move, Facebook blocked news content on its sites in Australia, and also stopped people outside the country from vi

2021-03-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The degree to which it is felt, however, depends crucially on the policy response, both at home and abroad. Fiscal spillovers are more powerful when recipient countries are themsel

2021-03-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Radiant energy
辐射能If America's economy runs hot, what happens to the rest of the world?
如果美国经济过热，世界其他地区会发生什么？When america sneezes, the rest of the wo

2021-03-01 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Coyotes can do really well in some cities. Los Angeles has always had coyotes, while the predators are

2021-02-25 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Syria is entering its 10th year as a multifront battlefield. Civilians seek refuge from the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad. And a residual U.S. force remains in th

2021-02-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Half a billion years ago, there existed a wormlike creature the size of a grain of rice. And a new study

2021-02-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Even the keenest advocates of immigration agree that speaking the language helps migrants integrate. But they argue that the focus should be on helping them do so, not on overly am

2021-02-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Biden administration said that asylum-seekers could cross America’s southern border to have their applications heard. Donald Trump had insisted they wait in Mexico.
拜登政府表

2021-02-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the March 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from

2021-02-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts 文艺板块Johnson Stress tests 约翰逊语言专栏——压力测试How to design language tests for citizenship—and how not to 如何设计入籍语言测试？要规避哪些方面