2019-10-08 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 January 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches fr

2019-09-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Annie Sneed.
Polar bears and coral reefs are obvious victims of climate change. But a warming world will also challenge m

2019-09-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science。 I'm Karen Hopkin.
"So, I never really thought I'd study penis size, but I sorta stumb

2019-09-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Satellite imagery, like Google Earth, makes it easy for ecologists halfway around the world to ch

2019-09-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
When it comes to Saturn, it's the rings that render the planet instantly recognizable. But it turns

2019-09-20 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Trees in cities do measurable good for biodiversity and for human health. They scrub pollution from the ai

2019-09-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
This weekend, many parts of the world—including North America—will be treated to a total lunar

2019-09-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting also has an optical illusion named for it: the Mona

2019-09-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Lucy Huang.
It's peak cold and flu season, which means taking a lot of preventative measures. Frequent hand-washing i

2019-09-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Birds in Europe have the same problem as residents of cities like New York and L.A.: a housing cr

2019-09-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Monogamy. What makes one species pair off, while members of a closely related species play the fiel

2019-09-06 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Lucy Huang.
Have you ever left the theaters after watching a Batman or Superman movie feeling like you wanted to be a bet

2019-09-05 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Your genome is sort of like a library — with each gene an instruction manual for making proteins

2019-09-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
When wildfires rip through a landscape, firefighters have the first — and most immediate — job.

2019-09-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Facebook is currently worth some $400 billion dollars to its shareholders. Which might seem like

2019-09-04 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 December 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches f

2019-09-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Given much thought to the afterlife of your Christmas tree? Your city might recycle it into compo

2019-09-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
We all know that stuffing our faces with sweet treats is not good for us. In part because it's bad for

2019-09-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
If you drive in a city, you've no doubt experienced the frustration of circling block after b

2019-09-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
'Tis the season...for overeating! But it's not just your lack of willpower or the omnipresent holid

2019-09-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
One of the most impressive scenes in the world of birds is a peacock displaying its impressive, iridescent fe

2019-09-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
You're at a party and you suddenly feel someone looking at you. But how can it be possible to feel anot

2019-09-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
There's a whole genre of music called "relaxation music." (CLIP: Solstice Dawn) It's also

2019-09-02 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Exercise builds muscle. But it also strengthens bones. Exactly how exercise boosts bone strength is a matte

2019-09-02 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
In the jungle, home is anywhere you can raise your babies — while trying not to get gobbled up by somebod