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They’ve implored citizens to help with bug counting and categorising cancer cells, and even identifying distant galaxies.

他们恳请公民帮忙统计昆虫数量、对癌细胞进行分类，甚至识别遥远的星系。

Beginning in 2006, some scientists have [argued] that plants possess neuron-like cells that interact with hormones and neurotransmitters, [forming] “a plant nervous system, [analogous] to that in animals,” said lead study author Lincoln Taiz, “They [even] claimed that plants have ‘brain-like command centers’ at their root tips.”

该研究的第一作者林肯·泰兹说：“从2006年开始，一些科学家就主张植物拥有与激素和神经递质相互作用的类神经元细胞，从而构成‘一个类似于动物神经系统的植物神经系统’，他们甚至声称植物的根尖处有‘类似大脑的指挥中心’。”

This [perspective] makes sense if you simplify the workings of a complex brain, [reducing] it to an array of electrical pulses; cells in plants also communicate through electrical signals.

如果你把复杂大脑的运作加以简化，将其归结为一系列电脉冲，那么这种观点就说得通了；植物细胞也通过电信号进行交流。

[However], the signaling in a plant is only [superficially] similar to the firing in a complex animal brain, which is more than “a mass of cells that communicate by electricity,” Taiz said.

然而，泰兹说，植物中的信号传递与复杂动物大脑中的神经放电只是表面相似，后者远不止是“一团通过电进行交流的细胞”。

Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyse data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist.

细胞生物学家戴维·沃克斯表示，人们期望专业科学家懂得如何分析数据，但已发表的研究中统计错误多得惊人。

One of the past winners, Professor Martin Green from the University of New South Wales, Australia, is the inventor of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell technology which is now found in most of the world’s solar panels.

往届获奖者之一、澳大利亚新南威尔士大学的马丁·格林教授发明了钝化发射极和背面电池技术，如今世界上大多数太阳能电池板都采用了这项技术。