>Climate crisis could make humans shrink
生物學(xué)家：氣候變暖或使人類變小

The climate crisis may lead the human race to shrink in size, as mammals with smaller frames appear better able to deal with rising global temperatures, a leading fossil expert has said.
一位頂尖化石專家表示，氣候危機可能導(dǎo)致人類體型縮小，因為體型較小的哺乳動物似乎能夠更好地適應(yīng)全球氣候變暖。

Prof Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, suggested the way in which other mammals have previously responded to periods of climate change could offer an insight into humans' future.
愛丁堡大學(xué)古生物學(xué)家史蒂夫?布魯薩特教授認為，其他哺乳動物此前在氣候變化時期的反應(yīng)可以預(yù)示人類的未來。

Brusatte said becoming smaller was "a common way that mammals deal with climate change".
布魯薩特表示，變小是“哺乳動物應(yīng)對氣候變化的常見方式”。

He added: “That's not to say every species of mammal would get smaller, but it seems to be a common survival trick of mammals when temperatures spike pretty quickly.”
他還表示：“這并不是說每一種哺乳動物都會變小，但當溫度迅速升高時，這似乎是哺乳動物常見的生存技巧。這確實提出了一個問題：如果溫度真的迅速升高，人類會變小嗎？我想這是很有可能的?！?/p>

>Pregnancy COVID linked to development issues
研究：孕婦感染新冠或影響嬰兒腦發(fā)育

Babies born to mothers who had COVID-19 while pregnant may be at higher than average risk for problems with brain development involved in learning, focusing, memory and developing social skills, researchers have found.
研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，孕婦感染新冠，其嬰兒在學(xué)習、專注力、記憶和社交技能發(fā)展方面出現(xiàn)大腦發(fā)育問題的風險可能高于平均水平。

They studied 7,772 infants delivered in Massachusetts between March and September 2020, tracking the babies until they were 12 months old.
他們的研究對象是2020年3月至9月在馬薩諸塞州分娩的7772名嬰兒，對這些嬰兒進行追蹤研究直到他們滿一周歲。

During that time, 14.4 percent of the babies born to the 222 women with a positive coronavirus test during pregnancy were diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder, compared to 8.7 percent of babies whose mothers avoided the virus while pregnant.
在此期間，222名新冠病毒檢測呈陽性的孕婦所產(chǎn)嬰兒中有14.4%被診為神經(jīng)發(fā)育障礙，而未感染新冠病毒的孕婦所產(chǎn)嬰兒中只有8.7%。

After accounting for other neurodevelopmental risk factors, including preterm delivery, SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy was linked with an 86 percent higher risk of a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosis in offspring, researchers reported on Thursday in JAMA Network Open.
研究人員6月9日在《美國醫(yī)學(xué)會雜志網(wǎng)絡(luò)開放》上發(fā)文稱，在考慮了早產(chǎn)等其他神經(jīng)發(fā)育風險因素后，女性孕期感染新冠病毒，其后代的神經(jīng)發(fā)育障礙確診風險高出86%。

The risk more than doubled when the infection occurred in the third trimester.
當感染發(fā)生在妊娠晚期時，這種風險增加了一倍多。

>US household wealth drops
美國家庭財富兩年來首次縮水

US household wealth declined for the first time in two years in the first quarter of 2022 as a drop in the stock market overwhelmed continued gains in home values, a Federal Reserve report showed.
美聯(lián)儲發(fā)布的一份報告顯示，由于股市下跌超過了房價持續(xù)上漲的影響，2022年第一季度，美國家庭財富兩年來首次出現(xiàn)下降。

Household net worth edged down to $149.3 trillion from a record $149.8 trillion at the end of last year per the Fed's quarterly snapshot of the national balance sheet.
美聯(lián)儲公布的季度全國資產(chǎn)負債表顯示，美國家庭凈資產(chǎn)從去年年底創(chuàng)紀錄的149.8萬億美元下滑至149.3萬億美元。

The drop was driven by a $3 trillion fall in the value of corporate equities - a plunge that has worsened in the current quarter - while real estate values climbed another $1.7 trillion.
下降的原因是盡管房地產(chǎn)價值攀升了1.7萬億美元，企業(yè)股票價值卻下降了3萬億美元。本季度股票價值跌幅更大。

It was the first decline in household wealth since the first quarter of 2020.
這是自2020年第一季度以來美國家庭財富首次出現(xiàn)下降。

>Swedish city takes risqué approach to garbage
北歐城市用性感女聲吸引人投放垃圾

The Swedish city of Malm? is taking dirty talk to a whole new level in its latest effort to clean up the streets. By installing talking garbage cans that dish out racy audio messages after being fed trash, authorities are hoping for an increase in rubbish being deposited.
為了清潔街道，瑞典馬爾默市的新舉措把“臟話”玩出了新高度。通過安裝“會說話”的垃圾桶，馬爾默政府希望更多人能把垃圾投放到垃圾桶里。這種垃圾桶在“吃進”垃圾的時候會說“挑逗”的話。

Pedestrians that drop trash into one of two bins on the city's Davidshallsbron bridge are rewarded with extremely positive feedback from a sultry female voice, who offers a range of responses.
馬爾默市的大衛(wèi)夏爾斯布隆橋上放置了兩個這樣的垃圾桶，行人只要將垃圾扔進其中一個垃圾桶，就會聽到一個性感的女聲的各種夸贊。

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