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From balloons to pans: in praise of useful tech
从气球到平底锅:为实用科技点赞

Companies developing new materials with previously unknown properties could change the material world
开发具有此前未知特性的新材料的公司,可能改变材料世界。

Party balloons may be good fun for children but they are bad news for seagulls. Ingesting fragments of discarded balloons kills birds by blocking their guts. One study of dead seabirds found that “balloons were the marine debris most likely to cause mortality”.

派对气球可能给孩子们带来乐趣,但对海鸥而言却是祸害。鸟类吞食被丢弃的气球碎片后,消化道会遭到堵塞,最终死亡。一项针对死亡海鸟的研究发现,“气球是最有可能导致死亡的海洋垃圾”。

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