2021-01-15 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Near the end of the 18th century, the industrial revolution began to transform Great Britain. Machines r

2021-01-14 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
They say that Marie Antoinette's hair turned white the night before she lost her head to the guillot

2021-01-12 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Making a cup of coffee isn't rocket science. But a new study shows that a background in math and ana

2021-01-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Dogs began to diverge from wolves tens of thousands of years ago, when their wild ancestors started inte

2021-01-07 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Around 100,000 years ago, in what is now Italy, our Neandertal cousins waded out into the shallow coasta

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
"It came to our attention a few years ago that there were fraudulent whiskeys on the market."
Gordon Coo

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
If you've ever been on a fishing boat, you've probably seen flocks of birds following

2021-01-04 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 January 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the

2020-12-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
"That's right, woodchuck-chuckers. It's Groundhog Day! Get up and chuck that hog out there!"
F

2020-12-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The animal kingdom is a noisy place. There's bird song...
(CLIP: Bird whistle)
...chorus

2020-12-24 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
More than 140 sign languages are used today, primarily by deaf communities around the world. Like spoken langu

2020-12-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Used to be, when doctors prescribed a drug, they'd open up a book summarizing drugs and do

2020-12-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
It may be one of the doggone doggiest things a doggy can do...
(CLIP: Dog running and dropping a stick)

2020-12-17 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The barred owl has a very distinctive call.
"It's the one that goes, 'Who cooks for y

2020-12-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Parasites live on or even inside another organism. And some can even change the behavior of their host t

2020-12-14 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The remora is an unusual fish. It hitchhikes on other sea creatures using a sucker on its head

2020-12-10 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Antarctica is a lonely continent. But the Antarctic Peninsula, the little "tail" that juts out

2020-12-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Annie Sneed.
The first plants to come up with ways to live on land acc

2020-12-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Sunday morning, September 28th, 1969, a fireball lit up the skies north of Melbourne,

2020-12-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Large mammals can be lost from a particular place, from being hunted or by the destruction of their hab

2020-12-01 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Brittle stars are close relatives of starfish with a much more delicate appearance.
"So if yo

2020-11-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
We humans used to think that our ability to us

2020-11-26 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
With a full month of the regular season to play, the 2019 New York Yankees had set a Major League Baseba

2020-11-24 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 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches f

2020-11-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The paleo diet is a popular high-protein diet that aims to mimic what our hunter-gatherer ance