2020-11-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
Happy New Year! And if you've been away from work for a few days, you deserve some time off. Af&#652

2020-11-17 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
How old is your four-legged best friend? Common wisdom says that a dog ages seven years for every h

2020-11-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
You never know if your loved ones are going to like what you bought 'em for the holidays.

2020-11-12 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
All mammals have hair—commonly called fur when it's on your cat or a koala. And the thickness of in

2020-11-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
There's a lot of advertising mythology about what causes dandruff. Like this:
(CLIP: "Her

2020-11-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
About 12,000 species of tiger moth exist on Earth. Some of them swoop and dive out of harm's

2020-11-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Go snorkeling in a lot of places, you'll find coral. But on Israel's Mediterranean coa

2020-11-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
In 2018 biologist Jann Vendetti published a paper that described the discovery of five species of non-n

2020-11-02 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Annie Sneed.
Solar. Wind. Hydropower. These renewable energy sources are all much better for the climate than fossil f

2020-10-29 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Remember Crystal Pepsi?
[CLIP: Crystal Pepsi ad]
It debuted in the early '90s, to a soun

2020-10-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
(CLIP: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.)
Why can people speaking the same language have suc

2020-10-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was the Roman subway system. Underground work is s

2020-10-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
(CLIP: Loud bird call)
That incredibly loud song soaring over the quieter birds in the Amazon rain

2020-10-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Colorful corals may be the stars of the reef—but they can't thrive without a huge support

2020-10-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
Our microbiomes—the tiny organisms that live on us and in us—can influence our health. And a rece

2020-10-15 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
In addition to giant crustaceans and creepy anglerfish, the deep oceans hide a vital piece of

2020-10-14 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 November 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches f

2020-10-10 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
Fossil footprints help tell us how ancient people lived. But such physical impressions are hard to

2020-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Modern painters usually get art supplies from a store—you want red paint, you buy red paint.

2020-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Would you drink water that had once been flushed down a toilet? After it's been cleaned, that is. The climate

2020-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Last year, Google unveiled Duplex, its artificial-intelligence-powered assistant.
"How can I help y

2020-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Babies are constantly surrounded by human language, always listening and processing. Eventually, they p

2020-09-29 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
You know how in the Road Runner cartoons, whenever something drops—like Wile E. Coyote f&#652

2020-09-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Some 5,600 years ago, people in the Egyptian city of Hierakonpolis did something that's still a very

2020-09-24 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
When we think about pets, we often consider dogs to be overly attentive and cats, well, a bit more aloof