>Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health
世界各地多條河流發(fā)現(xiàn)藥品殘留

Pollution in the world's rivers from medicines and pharmaceutical products poses a "threat to environmental and global health", a report says.
一份報告稱，藥品對世界河流的污染對“環(huán)境和全球人類的健康形成了威脅”。

Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected in a University of York study.
約克大學的一項研究在世界多地的河流廣泛檢測到撲熱息痛、尼古丁、咖啡因還有治療癲癇和糖尿病的藥物。

Rivers in Pakistan, Bolivia and Ethiopia were among the most polluted.
巴基斯坦、玻利維亞和埃塞俄比亞的河流是污染最嚴重的。

Rivers in Iceland, Norway and the Amazon rainforest fared the best.
冰島、挪威和亞馬遜雨林的河流是污染最輕的。

The report says increased presence of antibiotics in rivers could lead to the development of resistant bacteria, damaging the effectiveness of medicines and ultimately posing "a global threat to environmental and global health".
報告稱，河流中的抗生素越來越多會導致人類對抗生素的耐藥力增強，藥品的有效性減弱，最終會“對環(huán)境和全球人類的健康造成全球性威脅”。

>WHO works to spread COVID vaccine technology
世衛(wèi)擬向更多國家推廣新冠疫苗技術(shù)

The World Health Organization is creating a global training center to help poorer countries make vaccines, antibodies and cancer treatments using the messenger RNA technology that has successfully been used to make COVID-19 vaccines.
世界衛(wèi)生組織正在創(chuàng)建一個全球培訓中心，幫助低收入國家使用mRNA技術(shù)研制疫苗、抗體和抗癌藥物，該技術(shù)已成功用于制造新冠肺炎疫苗。

At a press briefing in Geneva on Feb 23, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the new hub will be in South Korea and will share mRNA technology being developed by WHO and partners in South Africa.
2月23日在日內(nèi)瓦舉行的新聞發(fā)布會上，世衛(wèi)組織總干事譚德塞表示，新的中心將設在韓國，并將分享世衛(wèi)組織和南非合作伙伴正在開發(fā)的mRNA技術(shù)。

"Vaccines have helped to change the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but this scientific triumph has been undermined by vast inequities in access to these life-saving tools,” he said.
譚德塞指出：“疫苗幫助改變了新冠疫情的進程，但這一科學勝利被獲取這些救生手段方面存在的巨大不平等所破壞?！?/p>

>Baking makes you feel good
研究：烘焙有助于提高幸福感

Studies have shown that creative activities like baking and knitting contribute to an overall sense of well-being.
研究表明，烘焙和編織等創(chuàng)造性活動有助于提高幸福感。

Boston University associate professor of psychological and brain sciences Donna Pincus told Huffington Post that there’s “a stress relief that people get from having some kind of an outlet and a way to express themselves.”
波士頓大學心理學和腦科學副教授唐娜?平卡斯在接受《赫芬頓郵報》采訪時表示，“人們有了發(fā)泄和表達自己的方式，就能緩解壓力?！?/p>

Baking is very good for focusing the mind because it often relies on very exact measurements.
烘焙對集中精神非常有幫助，因為其過程中通常需要非常精確的測量。

You have to add ingredients in the correct order or your profiteroles won't rise, or your cookies will be soggy.
你必須按照正確的順序添加配料，否則你的泡芙就不會膨脹，或者餅干可能會變軟。

Having complete focus on a recipe and not allowing yourself to be distracted by your thoughts can have a therapeutic effect.
將注意力完全集中在食譜上，不允許自己分心，可以產(chǎn)生治療效果。

In other words, most of the decisions have already been made for you, allowing you to concentrate on the details while nudging your mind away from the stressors and anxieties of your life outside the kitchen.
換句話說，你需要做的事情都已經(jīng)規(guī)定好了，你可以專注于細節(jié)，同時讓思緒遠離廚房外生活中的壓力和焦慮。

The act of sharing your finished product can be good for the body and soul, too, says Pincus.
平卡斯說，分享烘焙成果對身心健康也有好處。

>Life may actually flash before your eyes on death
研究：瀕死之時大腦會'回放'人生

New data from a scientific "accident" has suggested that life may actually flash before our eyes as we die.
一場科學“事故”的新數(shù)據(jù)顯示，人在瀕死時自己的一生會在眼前閃過。

A team of scientists set out to measure the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient who had developed epilepsy. But during the neurological recording, he suffered a fatal heart attack - offering an unexpected recording of a dying brain.
一個科學家團隊為一名87歲的癲癇患者測量腦電波，但是在測量過程中患者突發(fā)心臟病死亡，從而意外記錄下了瀕死大腦的腦電波。

It revealed that in the 30 seconds before and after, the man's brainwaves followed the same patterns as dreaming or recalling memories.
腦電圖顯示，在死亡前后的30秒內(nèi)，患者的腦電波經(jīng)歷了和做夢或回憶相同的模式。

Brain activity of this sort could suggest that a final "recall of life" may occur in a person's last moments, the team wrote in their study, published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience on Feb 22.
該研究團隊在2月22日發(fā)表在《衰老神經(jīng)科學前沿》上的研究報告中寫道，這種大腦活動意味著人在瀕死時刻可能會對自己的一生進行“終極回顧”。

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