2015-12-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

A lot of formerly low-income neighborhoods are becoming gentrified. The people moving in bring money—and racial biases. Which contribute to them viewing their new surrounding

2015-12-01 所属栏目:科学美国人

Some 12 percent of the forests of the Amazon have been lost in recorded history. Another 9 to 28 percent will be gone by 2050. But we have not known which species of trees are taki

2015-11-28 所属栏目:科学美国人

In Marcel Proust’s iconic Remembrance of Things Past, a taste of cake elicits a flood of memories.
Now a study finds that the stronger your memory of a particular food, the m

2015-11-26 所属栏目:科学美国人

“In general, even those who purport to have very egalitarian view or even feminist views of the world, when they were taking this test, it’s called the Implicit Associa

2015-11-24 所属栏目:科学美国人

“Voice is generated by a complex and beautiful biological system, and this is a system that allows all of us to communicate messages, concepts, and emotions.”Nathan Wel

2015-11-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

“The city of Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm which lasted a whole year. Wiped clean by the wrath of God.” Indiana Jones’s friend Marcus Brody, exp

2015-11-20 所属栏目:科学美国人

Back in ancient times, philosophers like Aristotle were already speculating about the origins of taste, and how the tongue sensed elemental tastes like sweet, bitter, salty and sou

2015-11-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

Foraging for food in urban areas is on the rise. Not dumpster diving. Collecting fruits and herbs.
Throughout cities, forgotten fruit trees still produce, well, produce. For exampl

2015-11-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

How do you attract a mate? If you’re a male mouse, you take the Frank Sinatra approach—you sing. Scientists have known about crooning male mice for years. And past expe

2015-11-17 所属栏目:科学美国人

Ever lose your ability to taste during a cold, because your nose is stuffed up? That’s because the nose is intimately involved with taste. When you chew, volatile flavor comp

2015-11-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

Our galactic home, the Milky Way, is big. Most galaxies are far smaller. And it’s not easy being one of those little galaxies—a big galaxy’s gravity can rob their

2015-11-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

[Howler monkey calls]
Howler monkeys. From their Central and South American rainforest home, they produce some of the loudest animal calls in the world. They’re about the siz

2015-11-13 所属栏目:科学美国人

You have bees to thank every time you drizzle some honey into your tea. And the human-honeybee relationship is long-standing. Iconography of honeybees adorns 4400-year-old walls in

2015-11-12 所属栏目:科学美国人

<<Dune sounds>> The sound of supernatural spirits talking? Well, no. But that&rsquo;s what it sounded like to Marco Polo as he travelled through China's Lop Desert in the 13th cen

2015-11-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

While listening to music, you might find yourself tapping your foot or bobbing your head to the beat. What you might not have expected is that as you listen to your favorite tune,

2015-11-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

Welcome to Scientific American&rsquo;s Science Talk, posted on November 10th, 2015. I&rsquo;m Steve Mirsky. A short episode today. For which I&rsquo;ll turn it over now to Scientif

2015-11-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

From the backseat of a cab, the moves a driver makes may at times seem, let&rsquo;s say, daring. In fact, cabbies may actually be better, more agile drivers than the rest of us. Be

2015-11-06 所属栏目:科学美国人

"My colleagues and I always joke that one of the Jacques Cousteau movies starts out with something like 'the ocean is a silent place.'" [Le Monde Du Silence clip: "Le monde du si

2015-11-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

Ten years ago, a bacterial disease began to eat away at the Florida citrus crop. It's called huanglongbing, or citrus greening, and it causes misshapen, bitter green fruits and, e

2015-11-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

The Northwest is famous for its microbrews. But the region&rsquo;s bubbles aren&rsquo;t just for beer. Scientists have found plumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane bubbling up

2015-10-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

Exposure to the unusual, the jarring, the culturally shocking may be beneficial for your cognitive reasoning—and your waistline.
That&rsquo;s according to a study in the jour

2015-10-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

“The message has to be told to Congressmen, the message of the importance of investing in basic research.” Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president at Microsoft Researc

2015-10-29 所属栏目:科学美国人

The world's oceans were once home to 10 times as many whales&hellip; before the Captain Ahabs of the world came round. Hunting hit big species the hardest, wiping out 99 percent o

2015-10-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

Each fall, thousands of coho salmon flock to Northwest rivers to spawn. But many never get the chance, especially near big cities like Seattle. “And in some of these urban ar

2015-10-26 所属栏目:科学美国人

“The message has to be told to Congressmen, the message of the importance of investing in basic research.” Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Researc