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下線部を和訳せよ。（配点各10点）Hundreds of millions of kilometers from earth, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet - an audacious first designed to answer big questions about the universe.However, by Saturday, the European Space Agency says the batteries of Philae - the comet probe - were depleted, but not before delive...

Japan's economy unexpectedly slipped into recession in the third quarter, making it almost certain that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will delay an unpopular sales tax hike and call a snap election two years before scheduled polls.The bad news Monday comes two years after Abe took office, pledging to improve the slumping economy through massive public stimulus spending and reforms, a plan he called "A...

A television show that features a 249-centimeter tall bright yellow bird, aided by multi-colored furry "animals" who interact with humans on a fictional New York City street reached a historic milestone this week.Sesame Street, the popular U.S. children's educational show, turned 45 years old on Monday.  The show has been a hit among pre-school children -- and their parents -- since its debut...

Dogs pant. Humans sweat. Pigs roll in the mud. To keep cool in the Cretaceous forests, some dinosaurs breathed deeply.Paleontologists at Ohio University studied CT scans of the skulls of ankylosaurs - huge armor-plated dinosaurs.Using 3-D reconstructions, they determined that traveling though the creatures' long, convoluted nasal passages gave air more time and surface area to warm up to body temp...

At least 100,000 workers took to the streets of Brussels on Thursday to protest the Belgian government’s free-market reforms and austerity measures.At least 14 people were injured when protesters clashed with the police.Protesters pelted police with stones and fireworks, overturning cars or setting them on fire. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators.The workers were ...

Telepathy is usually the stuff of science fiction. But transmitting signals from one person’s brain to another may someday become a reality, say researchers at the University of Washington.In a test repeated from a year ago, subjects were able to control hand motions of other people by thinking about the movement, while their brain signals were transmitted over the Internet.The three pairs of part...

Japanese stocks climbed to a seven-year high Tuesday, continuing momentum from last week, when Tokyo unexpectedly expanded economic stimulus measures.The benchmark Nikkei index rose 2.7 percent, or nearly 450 points, to end at 16,862.It was the first day the markets have been open since Friday, when the Nikkei surged 4.8 percent, its biggest daily gain in 18 months.The rally was sparked by Tokyo's...