如今,没有人能质疑该机构在科技上的雄心壮志。
让我们从一些坏消息开始吧,美国人在科技技能上表现太差了,比如使用电子邮件,在电脑上给文件命名,用网页上的链接,或者发短信给某人。
Let's start with the bad news that Americans are terrible at technology skills, using email, naming the file on a computer, using the link on a webpage or just texting someone.
在西方科技的发展中,非语言思维大体上固定了我们物质环境的轮廓,并填充了细节。
In the development of Western technology, it has been non-verbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings.
尽管人类在科技上取得了巨大进步,但仍然无法复制自然的蜘蛛网。
Although they have made great progress in science and technology, humans still haven't been able to copy natural webs.
科技公司 UneeQ 正在开发他们的“数字人类”,他们在屏幕上看起来像真人,不仅在语言方面,还有面部动作:扬起的眉毛、一个微笑,甚至是一个点头。
Tech company UneeQ is heading for its "digital humans", which appear life-like on the screen not only in terms of language, but also because of facial movements: raised eyebrows, a smile, even a nod.
这样PETE方法和普通的科技相比,在能量生产上就有两个相当大的优势。
So the PETE process has two really big benefits in energy production over normal technology.
也不是所有的革新都要建立在科技的基础上。
Nor do all the innovations being developed depend on technology.
他给我们描述了本周在布拉德福德大学举办的英国科技节上这个系统是如何工作的。
He described how the system works at the British Festival of Science taking place at the University of Bradford this week.
昨天我们在“青少年科技”会议上发布了一段视频,来看看青少年们是怎样理解科技的。
Yesterday we posted a video from the teens in tech conference, looking at how teens perceive technology.
这项在《生物燃料的生物科技》期刊上发表的研究发现,每英亩的西瓜能产生约20加仑的燃料,而(如果不加以利用,)这些水果就会被白白浪费。
The study, published in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels, discovered that watermelons could produce around 20 gallons of fuel per acre from fruit that otherwise would go to waste.
其实我们就只是想玩游戏,他们却不愿承认买给我们的纯粹是个玩具,但利用年轻一代在科技知识上这点优势,我们可以帮他们减轻一些负罪感。
We just wanted to play games but they didn't want to admit they were simply buying us a toy, but via our youthful vantage point of technical knowledge we helped assuage their guilt.
在种群调整后,无论是在高科技创业企业的数量上,还是在风险资本产业的规模方面,以色列均位于世界前列。
Adjust for population and Israel leads the world in the number of high-tech start-ups and the size of the venture-capital industry.
但是,尽管在之后的200多年中我们在科技上已有众多突破,煤在21世纪仍作为一种重要燃料被继续使用。
But despite the scientific and technological breakthroughs of more than 200 years, coal continues to be an important fuel in the 21st century.
这项突破将于本月在爱丁斯堡大学的科技节上正式公布。
The breakthrough will be officially unveiled at Edinburgh's Science Festival this month.
这些硬科幻小说的年代设定都是不久后的未来,我们在《技术评论》上看到的新兴科技是这些故事的灵感来源。
The stories will all be near-future, hard science fiction, inspired by the kinds of emerging technologies we see in our coverage at Technology Review.
苹果的销售额与利润激增使他们在去年超过了微软,成为世界上最有价值的科技公司。
Apple's surging sales and profits have made it the world's most valuable technology company, surpassing Microsoft last year.
事实上,在今年三月,布拉特本人就亲口反对科技手段介入到美丽的足球比赛当中。
In fact, as recently as this March, Blatter himself spoke out against allowing technical intrusions into the beautiful game.
事实上,在卡尔和其他科技怀疑论者的诊断里,超个体的假设在某种意义上只不过是宇宙的反面。
In fact, the superorganism scenario is in a sense just the cosmic flip side of the diagnosis offered by Carr and other techno-skeptics.
好吧,女性现在已经是大学和研究生院的主力军,甚至在许多传统上被认为是男性专区的科技领域里亦如此。
Well, women now make up the majority of college and grad school students, even in many areas in science and technology traditionally considered to be men’s domains.
因为她们真是受够了被追着在每次科技事件上发言,因为她们都一直都很努力地寻找能在会议上发言的合格女性。
Because they are literally hounded to speak at every single tech event in the world because they are all trying so hard to find qualified women to speak at their conference.
这个星球的居民是否在科技上领先于地球?
Are the planet's inhabitants technologically superior to Earth's?
然后还必须要详细写成论文,由吹毛求疵的同行来评论,如果论文通过了评论,会将其出版在科技期刊上。
It then has to be written up, reviewed by critical peers and, if it passes review, published in a scientific journal.
西欧、日本在节能科技上可以迎头赶上美国的主要原因之一就是高能源价格迫使他们进入这一领域以寻求降低企业成本的方法。
There are a lot of reasons Western Europe and Japan are so far ahead of the U.S. on energy efficiency, but one is that their higher energy costs simply forced their hand.
有的人把注意力集中在纯粹的简化和低级技术解决方案上,担心那些高科技不可靠。
Some people focus on utter simplicity and low-tech solutions, fearing that anything high tech is too fragile.
我们已经不得不去告诉年轻的孩子们要形成间断地使用科技产品,在时间上需要节制和进行平衡。
We have to start very young talking to kids about tech breaks and exercise and time spent off media. There is a need for moderation and balance.
调查还如是下结论:小男生小女生之间在科技上无性别之分。
The study also concluded that "there is no tech gender divide between young boys and girls."
这似乎是对这中世纪的祸害在科技上取得的完全胜利的最后标志。
That seemed the ultimate symbol of technology's triumph over a medieval scourge.
对于矿物燃料燃烧时氮氧化物的清除,在科技上和成本上都是可行的。
Existing technology can remove nitrogen oxides when fossil fuels burn, at a cost.
对于矿物燃料燃烧时氮氧化物的清除,在科技上和成本上都是可行的。
Existing technology can remove nitrogen oxides when fossil fuels burn, at a cost.
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