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The top 10 science news stories of科学故事TOP1010) The thermostat in your office may be sexist在办公室使用恒温器太大男子主义Always wearing a sweater to work—even in the middle of the summer? Blame Povl Ole Fanger, a Danish scientist who in the 1960s developed a model that predicted comfortable indoor temperatures for the average worker of the day—a 40-year-old man sporting a three-piece suit. Now, researchers say they have built a better model by taking modern attire and demographics into account.总穿着因汗沾湿的衣服工作—感觉总处在夏日中？Blame Povl Ole Fanger, 一个丹麦的科学家在1960年发现了一个模型预算出对于大多数工作者适宜室的内温度—40岁男人穿着全套西装。如今，科研者者们申称已经建立了更好的模型，并纳入更多的装束和人口统计。9) Did natural selection make the Dutch the tallest people on the planet?是否是自然选择使得荷兰人成为我们星球最高的？Scientists have finally solved the mystery of why the Dutch are so tall. Tall Dutch men on average have more children than their shorter counterparts, and more of their children survive, researchers have found. The findings, say scientists, are an impressive example of human evolution in action.科学家们终于解决了荷兰人为什么这么高的谜团。调查发现，较高的荷兰人普遍比较矮的同伴们拥有更多的孩子，并且他们的孩子也存活更多。科学家们的这个发现，也是人类演变活动中令人印象深刻的例子。8) Internet search engines may be influencing elections网络搜索工具会影响我们的选择“What we’re talking about here is a means of mind control on a massive scale that there is no precedent for in human history.” That’s how this story starts, and it just gets wackier from there.“我们所讨论在大规模网络搜索工具使用的主要影响，在人类历史上是绝无仅有的。”这是历史的新篇章，也是疯狂的诞生。7) Rats forsake chocolate to save a drowning companion老鼠们舍弃自己的巧克力去救溺死的同伴Are you as altruistic as a rat? Even when offered a piece of chocolate as an alternative, the rodents prefer to save a comrade in trouble—a sign that humans aren’t the only animals who feel empathy.你会和老鼠一样慷慨吗？即使是以一块巧克力作为选择的诱惑，啮齿类动物还是更乐意去救自己困难中的同伴们—这标志人类不是唯一有同情心的动物。6) Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs?暗物质杀死了恐龙？Of all the hypotheses of how dinosaurs died, this may be the strangest. A team of scientists proposes that mysterious dark matter may seep into Earth’s core about once every 30 million years,