2019-11-29 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Few things are more satisfying than sleeping late on weekends. But though the extra z's may improve you

2019-11-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
It sounds like a witches' recipe: gather the hearts of a fence lizard; a little brown bat;

2019-11-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Every spring, migratory birds flood back to where they breed. That migratory behavior is accom

2019-11-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"I think there will come a time when we will experiment with an automated strike zone."
Rob Manfred, th

2019-11-20 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Let's play a word game. What word can be put in front of the words "stick," "maker," and "poi

2019-11-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the February 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches f

2019-11-15 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The compounds THC and CBD are known as cannabinoids, because they come from canna

2019-11-13 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
(Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Mission Control: Roger, Tranqui

2019-11-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Living with your parents has its benefits...at least when it comes to raising your kids—their grandkids. B

2019-11-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Think killer robots. What comes to mind? Maybe...this guy

2019-11-06 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
A recent analysis predicts that 40 percent of the world's insect species could go extinct wit

2019-11-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
In Latin America, Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans have intermixed for centuries. So, a

2019-11-01 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
"I think we all agree that there is a crisis, even, in our society about how we use science. We all know ab

2019-10-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Believe it or not, mosquitoes don't bite out of spite. Female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti n

2019-10-28 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Thirty million white-tailed deer now live in North America. "That's a lotta deer." Megan Gall

2019-10-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Elephants don't diet, as far as we know. But their weight does fluctuate, at least for the ones who liv

2019-10-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
"You know, when this little rover landed, the objective was to have it be able to move 1,100 yards

2019-10-21 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
How many U.S. presidents can you name? For most people, researchers have found "the first couple

2019-10-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
For more than a hundred years, this sound has been missing from New Zealand's forests: (hihi

2019-10-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Winter storms have walloped California this year, and snowpack is piling up. But just a few years

2019-10-14 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Male humpback whales are the concert singers of the marine world. These ocean giants belt out tunes that c

2019-10-12 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Every new parent knows, or learns pretty quickly, that rocking can calm that fussy baby when it's time

2019-10-10 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Pain. It's unpleasant. But what if pain could be rendered less...painful...emotionally speaking? Such u

2019-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The time: 300,000 years ago. The scene: a herd of horses, struggling in mud. A short five meters

2019-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
One of the biggest drawbacks to wearing a smartwatch is how often you have to take it off