2020-09-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
If you have heart disease, your doctor might tell you, eat more vegetables. A tactic that has

2020-09-21 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, meaning more and more sea ice i

2020-09-17 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Anyone who commutes by car knows that traffic jams are an inevitable part of life. But humans are not al

2020-09-14 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
This July, just one year after turning pro, 15-year-old Coco Gauff beat tennis superstar Venus Williams

2020-09-14 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
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Remember scrolling through the radio dial, hoping a tune you liked would

2020-09-10 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 October 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches fr

2020-09-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
This Halloween, as you carve jack-o'-lanterns and make pumpkin pie, take a moment to appre

2020-09-07 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Most supermarket eggs look pretty boring. Plain white chicken eggs; brown ones if you're l

2020-09-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Rats can do it. Mice can do it; honeybees; some people, too. And now add green crabs to the li

2020-09-01 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Most migratory birds spend their winters in one habitat and then fly to a new area in the springtime to

2020-08-31 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Deep in the Amazon lives one of the world's largest freshwater fish: the legendary Arapaim

2020-08-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
The Sahara Desert, where daytime temperatures can reach 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Not many organisms can s

2020-08-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
It might seem obvious that the primary function of insect repellents like DEET is to, well, re

2020-08-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Certain concert venues, like Boston's Symphony Hall, are known to beautifully reflect the

2020-08-20 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Tardigrades are some of nature's toughest animals. Also known as water bears, the tiny creatures can

2020-08-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Just like here on Earth, we have earthquakes, the planet Mars has "Mars-quakes."
"Although th

2020-08-17 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Social media platforms like Facebook use a combination of artificial intelligence and human mo

2020-08-13 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"This year's prize is about a rechargeable world. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today de

2020-08-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"This year's Nobel laureates in physics have painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more w

2020-08-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology o

2020-08-06 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
The Black Death. Also known as the Great Plague, it spread across Europe between 1346 and 1353 and brought

2020-08-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
In the science fiction story Dune, the desert planet Arrakis is inhabited by enormous, fearsome

2020-08-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science, I'm Shahla Farzan.
Insects can be noisy. But most of the sounds they produce, we can't hear. Take tiny insects called tre

2020-07-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
A marine heatwave in 2016 killed off a full third

2020-07-28 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
The human brain is remarkably adaptable, constantly being shaped by life experience. A striking example is