Just as music and lighting can influence what shoppers buy, toning down the tunes and dimming the lights in a fast food restaurant can help diners enjoy their meal more and eat less, according to a U.S. study.
根據美國研究，就像是音樂與燈光可以影響購物者買東西一樣，在速食餐廳調低音量並調暗燈光，有助用餐者更享受餐點，還會吃得比較少。
After transforming part of a fast food restaurant in Illinois with milder music and lighting, researchers found that customers ate 18 percent fewer calories than other people in the unmodified part of the restaurant.
Eating organic food will not make you healthier, according to researchers at Stanford University, although it could cut your exposure to pesticides.
根據史丹福大學研究人員，吃有機食物不會讓你更健康，但可能減少你和殺蟲劑的接觸。
They looked at more than 200 studies of the content and associated health gains of organic and non-organic foods. Overall, there was no discernible difference between the nutritional content, although the organic food was 30% less likely to contain pesticides.
For those who like their coffee with a strong nose Thailand could be the ideal destination, after a blend made from elephant dung was put on sale by an upmarket hotel chain.
泰國一家高檔連鎖酒店販售象糞製作的咖啡後，對喜愛濃咖啡的人來說，泰國可能是個理想去處。
The Black Ivory blend, made from coffee beans digested and excreted by Thai elephants, is billed as producing a particularly smooth cup.
黑莓機復活
New Blackberry phones make a bad first impression on investors
上班族西進
Survey suggests vast majority of Taiwanese office workers willing to work in China
國內失業率攀高，根據人力銀行統計，高達9成5的上班族，有意西進，創下近年來新高，年資10到15年的，意願最高，新鮮人也不少，看準的，就是到中國工作，薪水可以增加一倍半。
Vitamin D could help the body fight infections of deadly tuberculosis, according to doctors in London. A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed patients recovered more quickly when given both the vitamin and antibiotics.
根據倫敦醫師，維生素D或有助於身體對抗致命的傳染性結核病。美國國家科學院院刊刊登的研究顯示，結核病患接受維生素加抗生素治療，可以較快恢復。
The idea of using vitamin D to treat tuberculosis （TB） harks back to some of the earliest treatments for the lung infection. Before antibiotics were discovered, TB patients were prescribed "forced sunbathing", known as heliotherapy, which increased vitamin D production.
Doctors have warned of a "lack of knowledge" about the dangers of mixing some medications with grapefruit. The fruit can cause overdoses of some drugs by stopping the medicines being broken down in the intestines and the liver.
醫師警告對某些藥物與葡萄柚混用危險的「知識缺乏」。葡萄柚可能造成某些藥物在腸子與肝臟內停止分解，導致藥物過量。
The researchers who first identified the link said the number of drugs that became dangerous with grapefruit was increasing rapidly.
An assassin slit the throat of Egypt’s last great pharaoh at the climax of a bitter succession battle, scientists said Monday in a report on a 3,000-year-old royal murder.
科學家週一公布長達3000年之久的王室謀殺案報告，指出埃及最後一位偉大的法老王在激烈的王位繼承爭奪戰高潮中，遭刺客割喉喪命。
Forensic technology suggests Ramses III, a king revered as a god, met his death at the hand of a killer, or killers, sent by his wife and ambitious son, they said.
