Despite its nickname, this little angel apparently doesn't mind showing a little skin: it's actually a naked snail without a shell, scientists said in December 2009.

科学家曾在2009年12月表示，不管它的绰号怎么叫，这个小天使显然根本不在意展露少许的肌肤：实事上它是一种没穿外壳的祼体蜗牛。

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To some scientists, that finding made little intuitive sense. If a little exercise is good for the heart, why shouldn't more be continually better?

有些科学家直觉地认为这一发现说不通。既然少量锻炼有益于心脏，那为什么加大锻炼量却不会带来更大的好处呢？

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Scientists say a little more ice covered the Arctic in September than in September of two thousand eight.

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And once he did that, both he and many other scientists, could then, once they understood what caused the fluorescence, make little changes to the actual protein, and tune what the properties of that fluorescent protein were.

而且一旦他做成了这个，一旦他们弄清楚了是什么导致萤光，他和其它很多科学家，就可以对蛋白质做微小的改变，调节蛋白质的荧光性质。

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He often described them as little scientists.

他常把儿童称为小科学家

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To avoid contaminating the little critters, scientists have to shower and scrub before entering mouse quarters.

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Little wonder that the scientists are looking tribal and jumpy, and that sceptics have leapt so eagerly on such tiny scraps as proof of a conspiracy.

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Yet Brinker remains accessible, and a little more colorful than most scientists.

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