Give it up for Louis Cato and the great big joy Machine.

掌聲歡迎 Louis Cato 和 the great big joy Machine！

If you watch the show, and I hope you do, you know that I love science.

如果你有看這個節目，我希望你有看，你會知道我有多愛科學。

It's the only excuse I have to use the words Erlenmeyer Flask.

這是我唯一能用到「錐形瓶」這個詞的藉口。

And I'd like to bring you all the latest science news in my science segment, the Sound of Science.

而在我的科學單元「科學之聲」裡，我想帶給大家最新的科學消息。

First up in the world of science, king cobras are spreading to different parts of India by hitching rides on some of the country's busiest railway networks, a new study has found.

科學界最新消息，一項新研究發現，國王眼鏡蛇正透過搭乘印度最繁忙的鐵路網，擴散到印度各地。

The study says that the cobras are probably attracted to the availability of prey on the trains because freight trains carrying grain or fruit can attract rodents, explains the new slogan for Ben's Basmati Rice.

這項研究表示，眼鏡蛇可能是被火車上的獵物吸引，因為載運穀物或水果的貨運火車會吸引囓齒動物，這也解釋了 Ben's Basmati Rice 的新標語。

Don't worry, the rodents that were in this rice were all killed by the hitchhiking cobras.

別擔心，這米裡的囓齒動物都被搭便車的眼鏡蛇殺死了。

Up in Oregon, a beer made with bear poop is likely a first in brewing history.

在奧勒岡，一款用熊糞釀的啤酒，很可能是釀造史上的創舉。

Just because something is first doesn't mean it's a good idea.

但事情不是第一就代表是個好主意。

Look, kids, it's the first American girl doll made of socks filled with teeth.

看，孩子們，這是第一個用裝滿牙齒的襪子做成的美國女孩娃娃。

Her name is Helen, and she survived the Triangle shirtwaist fire.

她叫海倫，她經歷了三角襯衫工廠大火。

I know you don't want any further details, but

我知道你不想知道更多細節，但是

I have to know it, so you have to know it.

我必須知道，所以你必須知道。

The bear Dukey was introduced to brewing water.

Then they made the water safe to drink and turned it into a beer with notes of huckleberry and honey and with afternotes of toxoplasmosis and dumpster ham.

然後他們把水變得可以安全飲用，並將其製成啤酒，帶有越橘和蜂蜜的風味，以及弓蟲症和垃圾桶火腿的餘韻。

Next up, biologists say that the world's oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes, which scientists believed enabled this remarkable creature to wear two pairs of Groucho glasses at the same time.

接下來，生物學家說，世界上已知最古老的脊椎動物有兩對眼睛，科學家認為這讓這種奇特的生物能同時戴上兩副 Groucho眼鏡。

Next up, I don't mean to alarm you with a lousy headline, just meant to get your attention.

接下來，我不是想用一個爛標題來嚇唬你，只是想引起你的注意。

But a new study shows that Americans are on the verge of something called a sextinction, which sounds like the title of a movie that accidentally showed up on your hotel bill.

但一項新研究顯示，美國人正處於一種叫做 sextinction 的邊緣，聽起來就像一部意外出現在你飯店帳單上的電影名稱。

According to research in the United States, one in three men and one in five women have not had sex.

根據美國的研究，三分之一的男性和五分之一的女性沒有性行為。

Okay, men in the audience, look to your left.

好的，現場的男性觀眾，看看你的左邊。

You now have to have a threesome for America.

Next up, researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered that we fart twice as much as previously thought.

接下來，馬裡蘭大學的研究人員發現，我們的屁量是先前認為的兩倍。

How can you fart twice as much as all the time?

Well, researchers were able to measure people's flatulence using a tiny wearable device that snaps discreetly into underwear and tracks intestinal gas production, called smart underwear.

嗯，研究人員利用一種可以巧妙地別在內褲上、追蹤腸道產氣量的微型穿戴裝置，叫做智慧內褲，來測量人們的排氣量。

Okay, but how smart can it be if this is what it does for a living?

好吧，但如果這就是它的工作內容，它能有多聰明？

Next up, Next up, science and tech website Gizmodo demands watch a man get launched off a truck at 50 miles an hour.

接下來，接下來，科技網站 Gizmodo 要求我們看一個人以每小時 50 英里的速度被從卡車上彈飛。

Sadly, seconds later, that guy got hit by a bus.

可惜的是，幾秒鐘後，那個人被公車撞到了。

The reason that experiment worked is the truck was moving 50 miles per hour, but

這個實驗之所以能成功，是因為卡車以每小時 50 英里的速度行駛，但

the guy was launched the opposite direction off the back of the truck, also at 50 miles per hour.

那個人卻以同樣每小時 50 英里的速度，從卡車後方被彈向相反的方向。

So he was effectively standing still according to the idea of relative motion summed up in Einstein's famous equation.

所以根據愛因斯坦著名相對運動的概念，他實際上是靜止不動的。

Dude, it would be so awesome to push a guy off a truck.

哇，把一個人從卡車上推下去一定超好玩的。

Okay, Next up, we're nowhere near ready to make babies in space.

好的，接下來，我們離在太空中生小孩還差得遠呢。

Haven't they heard about the sextinction?

Next up, scans of a 2000 year old mummy show that an ancient Egyptian lived with back pain.

接下來，一張有兩千年歷史的木乃伊掃描圖顯示，一位古埃及人飽受背痛之苦。

Egyptologists say that when the man's back gave out, he was known to shout bird.

埃及學家說，當這名男子的背部垮掉時，大家都知道他會大喊「鳥」。

Next up, in Norway, there's some unexpected and confusing news.

接下來，在挪威，有些出乎意料又讓人困惑的消息。

Polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and healthier, all while sea ice has steadily declined.

位於挪威北極群島斯瓦爾巴的北極熊，牠們變得更胖、更健康了，同時海冰卻持續減少。

Experts suspect the bear's dramatic weight gain may be related to the recent opening of the Svalbard Cheesecake Factory.

專家懷疑熊的體重劇增，可能跟最近斯瓦爾巴起司蛋糕工廠的開幕有關。

We'll be right back with Melissa McCarthy.

我們馬上回來，和 Melissa McCarthy 一起。

科學的聲音：熊啤酒 | 性滅絕 | 兩倍的屁 | 太空寶貝 (The Sound Of Science: Bear Beer | Sextinction | Twice The Farts | Space Babies)

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