1. Why does beauty exist? To answer this question, Richard O. Prum, an ornithologist, is working to revive an idea advanced by Charles Darwin: the attractiveness of an animal to another of its species isn’t only tied to fitness and good genes. Rather, animals — especially birds in Dr. Prum’s work — are making subjective decisions. He hopes that evolutionary biologists will stop “explaining away desire.”

2. Strengthening the all-around improvement of government

3. The first chart shows the total incidence of banking, currency and debt default crises in emerging markets since the 1970s, set against the nominal federal funds rate. Mr Koepke gives this as evidence that high and rising rates typically precede periods of EM crisis.

4. The total number of qualified applicants reached 31,220 in the first 24 hours, up from 25,000 over the same period last year, according to figures from offcn.com, an education organization that offers training for the civil servant exam.

5. 我们对已经达成或者希望达成的一些区域贸易安排一直持开放态度，也乐见其成。只要是有利于贸易自由化的，我们都会去参与、去推进。

6. 抵达太阳系深处的人类智慧。

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1. 被调查的34个城市间的差距就更大了。北京市平均年终奖超过1.58万元人民币，超过了年终奖最低的沈阳市的三倍。沈阳市是中国东北铁锈地带辽宁省的省会。

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3. World's Most International Universities Ranking 2016 by The Times Higher Education included 200 universities from 28 countries. It employed indicators such as the proportion of international staff, the number of international students and research papers published with at least one co-author from another country of each institution.

4. 我们要让权力不能任性，就得把那些不应该有的权力砍掉，有些涉及到部门利益，要压缩寻租的空间。这不是一个简单的过程，从中央政府一直到地方、到基层，要打通“最后一公里”。

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6. 2014年即将成为历史，各路股市专家也终于可以松一口气了。

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1. Hurricane Harvey

2. Wang said the journal and authors had an unavoidable responsibility in the latest scandal, with the statement adding that Tumor Biology had retracted papers over similar concerns about the peer review process in 2015.

3. Stanford's Zhenan Baohas has developed a super-flexible, super-durable, and super-sensitive material that can be the basis for future synthetic skin. People have tried developing synthetic skin before, but Baohas's material handles touch sensitivity better than any predecessor. It contains organic transistors and a layer of elastic, letting it stretch without taking damage. And it's self-powered—this skin contains a series of elastic solar cells.