-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 全球科学简报
全球科学简报 Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky, and here's a short piece from the April 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches From The Frontiers Of Science, Technology And Medicine. The art
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 动物在黑暗中发出声音？
Did Animal Calls Start in the Dark? The animal kingdom is a noisy place. There's bird song, choruses of frogs , and lots of lesser known sounds like the ray-gun-like sounds of baby alligators hatching and calling for mom. (There's lots of videos of t
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 手语展示不同的祖先
Sign Languages Display Distinct Ancestries More than 140 sign languages are used today, primarily by deaf communities around the world. Like spoken languages, each sign language has its own grammar, vocabulary and other special features. 现在有140多
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 土拨鼠天气预测能力不行啊
Facts about Groundhogs Other Than Their Poor Meteorology February 2: the day each year when we look toward an oversized rodent to find out how much more winter well endure. In honor of the occasion, heres seven things you might not have known about t
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 来自世界各地的科学新闻简报
Science News Briefs from All Over 来自世界各地的科学新闻简报 Hi, Im Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And heres a short piece from the January 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 尼安德特人用蛤蜊捕鱼
Neandertals Tooled Around with Clams Around 100,000 years ago, in what is now Italy, our Neandertal cousins waded out into the shallow coastal waters of the Mediterranean Sea in search of clams. They grabbed the mollusks from the seafloor and perhaps
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 浓缩咖啡磨得越粗越好
Espresso May Be Better when Ground Coarser Making a cup of coffee isnt rocket science. But a new study shows that a background in math and analytical chemistry doesnt hurt. Because researchers who applied their skills in materials science and modelin
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 若有一只信天翁围着你的船
Having an Albatross around Your Boat 若有一只信天翁围着你的船 If youve ever been on a fishing boat, youve probably seen flocks of birds following in your wake, hoping to catch a snack. Now scientists say they can use those birds behavior
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 用同位素验证假威士忌
Fingering Fake Whiskeys with Isotopes It came to our attention a few years ago that there were fraudulent whiskeys on the market.Gordon Cook of the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center. 几年前，市场上出现了假的威士忌，这
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 喜马拉雅冰川发现工业革命污染灰尘
Industrial Revolution Pollution Found in Himalayan Glacier Near the end of the 18th century, the industrial revolution began to transform Great Britain. Machines replaced hand tools, factories sprouted up in cities and towns, and a sharp uptick in co
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 老鼠毛发变灰原因何在
Fight-or-Flight Nerves Make Mice Go Gray They say that Marie Antoinettes hair turned white the night before she lost her head to the guillotine. But can stress really have such a dramatic effect on hair color? A new study in mice concludes that it ca
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 隐形杀手搭便车来到本地植物幼苗上
Invisible Killers Hitchhike on Native Plant Seedlings When wildfires rip through a landscape, firefighters have the firstand most immediatejob. But then, that burned moonscape often passes into the hands of restoration ecologists, who yank out invasi
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 猫能听懂自己的名字 但它们不会回应
This is Scientific American 60-second Science, I'm Jim Daley. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学系列，我是吉姆戴利。 Almost any cat owner will testify to the felines' apparent indifference to humans when we call their names. But according
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 新模型旨在解决月球的形成之谜
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学系列，我是克里斯托弗因塔格里塔。 On July 20th, 1969, humankind finally set foot on the surface of the moon. Fifty years la
-
科学美国人60秒 SSS 软件可以检测出老鼠的吱吱叫声
This is Scientific American 60-second Science, I'm Lucy Huang. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学系列，我是露西黄。 Mice and rats vocalize. To us, many of the sounds they make are ultrasonicat too high a frequency to hear. But if we slow th
