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科学美国人60秒 SSS 家庭节能有助于能源利用
Homebodies Economize on Energy Use 家庭节能有助于能源利用 The rise in technology, particularly for information and communication, is radically transforming lifestyles. For example, many people can now work from home and still be in almost
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 我有自己的声音
Woodpeckers Drum to their Own Tune Humans can recognize each other by voice alone. I sound different from other 60-Second Science reporters, for example. In fact, lots of non-human animals, of all types, use voices to distinguish familiar individuals
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 假日狂欢导致生育率上升
Holiday Cheer Leads to Birth-Rate Spike In the United States, theres a holiday that goes hand in hand with romance. So much so that nine months later, theres a spike in the number of babies born. Valentines day? Wrong! It seems that people in the U.S
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 虎鲸文化通过模仿我们而揭示出来
Killer Whale Culture Revealed By Mimicking Us Killer whales, also called orcas, are like dolphins and belugasthey all have a wide vocal repertoire. But orcas also have uniquedialects among different pods. Which suggests the animals can learn new and
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 狮子保护区不利于保护长颈鹿
Lion Conservation Challenges Giraffe Protection The giraffe is an icon of the African savannah. The lion is the top predator of the ecosystem. Both animals face uncertain futures, and both are subjects of intense, ongoing conservation work. Now a stu
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 开启冬季居家模式的加拿大鹅
Canada Geese Taking a Winter Staycation Over the last few decades, Canada geese have been wintering further and further north, which was interesting, because the winters have gotten a little more mild over the last few years, but still its pretty col
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 大便移植者的关键要素
Fecal Transplanters Fish Out Key Ingredient These days, antibiotics are no silver bullet. In fact, if you get them in the hospital, you may end up with an additional infection. Like the bug Clostridium difficile, or C. diffwhich infects more than 300
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 主动活泼一点会更好
Poorer Kids May Be Too Respectful at School Kids from different economic backgrounds behave differently in classrooms. For example, working class kids are less likely to ask for help from teachers than are their middle class counterparts. And when th
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 猴子的报复
Aggressed-Upon Monkeys Take Revenge on Aggressor's Cronies Dont mess with a monkey. Because if you do, hes might take revengeon your family and friends. Thats according to a study of Japanese macaques, which shows that monkeys keep track of eachs oth
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 蜘蛛狂吃海量的小獵物
Spiders Gobble Gargantuan Numbers of Tiny Prey By now, you may have heard about a study that came out a couple of weeks ago about spiders. The study got a lot of attention because coverage of the research often focused on the idea that spiders could
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 猫咪: 铲屎官不错哦
Your Cat Thinks You're Cool We tend to see housecats as aloof and independent, mostly preferring to engage in their own kitty business. But that assumption may be littered with error. Because a new study finds that, given a choice, Fluffy would proba
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 蜜蜂喜欢花朵提供的尼古丁
Bees Prefer Flowers That Proffer Nicotine We humans enjoy coffee and tea, to give our brains a caffeine boost. And bees sometimes sip nectar that naturally contains caffeine, which seems to enhance their memory. Now a study suggests that bees enjoy a
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 昆虫捐献DNA给无关的虫类
Insects Donate DNA to Unrelated Bugs 昆虫捐献DNA给无关的虫类 You can thank your parents for your DNA. Because humans share genes through sexual reproduction, passing DNA from parent to child. It's known as the 'vertical transfer' of DNA. No
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 海底录音揭示了鲸鱼的故事
Undersea Recordings Reveal a Whale's Tale One of the drawbacks of researching blue whales is that most of the time you can't see what your study subjects are doing, or how many there areor even, where they are. Satellite tags have revealed some of th
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科学美国人60秒 SSS 海鸟羽毛能彰显海洋的脆弱性
Seabird Feathers Reveal Less-Resilient Ocean Today we have sophisticated buoys packed with instruments, and robotic underwater drones. But a more than a century ago the seas were surveyed by different types of autonomous data-gathering instruments. W
