Genetics (遗传学) is the science of what makes you who you are. People who study genetics,called geneticists, learn about how parents pass on information through their genes (bits of information in your body that you cannot see) to their children. Is there anyone in the world like you?
Botany , the study of plants, plays a strange role in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was one field about which humans had little knowledge. It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of...
Floatovoltaics aren’t perfect. Covering too much of a reservoir with panels could affect the plants and animals in the water. The scientists say it will be important to study how floating panels will affect water in each reservoir. Focusing first on man-made reservoirs will avoid some of th...
They are also (70) useful () to children who have problems in paying attention to lessons. Some children think the classroom is (71) boring (/"bo:rin) and they don't want to study there. Putting plants in the classroom can (72)☐_ a great help as they learn. Having lessons in ...
“People are not ___ this effect at all,” marveled the study’s lead researcher Juliet Zhu, who studies the effects of environmental cues on behavior. To study the brain’s response to specific colors, Zhu’s team administered a series of ___ tests to college students. For most of the...
Next year she wants to go to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted, the coral ...
They also drink chrysanthemum wine (菊花酒) and wear a plant called zhuyu to celebrate it. Both chrysanthemum and zhuyu are regarded as clean plants that can clean houses and cure (治疗) diseases. Respecting elderly people is shown not only on this special day but also in daily life. For...
Luckily, you have many role models___to learn from. As for me, I admire Song Qingling most. She grew up in America and spoke perfect English. She lived a rich life there, but she decided to return to China and devoted her life to helping___, who called her “Mum” in return. Th...
UK spring flowers are opening nearly a month earlier than they did before the mid-1980s, due to climate change. That is the conclusion of a study of nearly 420,000 observations of the first flowering date of 406 plants from a UK citizen science project called Nature's Calendar. It has ...
From roughly the 16th to 19th centuries, much of the Earth was gripped by a persistent frigid cold. It left ripples through history—and some lessons for today’s climate crisis.