A few years ago, a woman and her husband were coming home from a ski trip in British Columbia when they spotted a disabled car on the side of the road.

几年前的一天，一对夫妇从不列颠哥伦比亚省滑雪归来，回家的路上遇到了一辆在路边抛锚的汽车；当时下着大雨，车主人看起来十分沮丧。

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Instead, the government of British Columbia widened the road between the sites.

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"Something like 2% of cancers down the road will come from CT scans now, " says Columbia University radiation biologist Eric Hall, who was not involved in the current study.

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Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.

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