1 There’s a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100，000 years - exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a phys
A.When Denis Hennequin took over as the European boss of McDonald’s in January 2004， the world’s biggest restaurant chain was showing signs of recovery in America and Australia， but sales in E
How shops can exploit people’s herd mentality to increase sales1.A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychological warfare—but it is.Shopkeepers know that filling a store wi
Rogue theory of smell gets a boost1.A controversial theory of how we smell, which claims that our fine sense of odour depends on quantum mechanics, has been given the thumbs up by a team of physicists
2012年雅思阅读考试考前冲刺试题（14）1.The failure of a high-profile cholesterol drug has thrown a spotlight on the complicated machinery that regulates cholesterol levels.But many resea
2012年雅思阅读考试考前冲刺试题（15）The Triumph of UnreasonA.Neoclassical economics is built on the assumption that humans are rational beings who have a clear idea of their best intere
2012年雅思阅读考试考前冲刺试题（16）Don’t wash those fossils!Standard museum practice can wash away DNA.1.Washing, brushing and varnishing fossils — all standard conservation treatm
2012年雅思阅读考试考前冲刺试题（17）1. A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another “Earth“ among the stars.2. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboa
2012年雅思阅读考试考前冲刺试题（18） Felicity LawrenceThursday December 28, 2006The Guardian1. Consumers are to be presented with two rival new year advertising campaigns as the Food
2012年雅思阅读考试考前冲刺试题（19）Next Year Marks the EU’s 50th Anniversary of the TreatyA. After a period of introversion and stunned self-disbelief, continental European governm