搜索 复制 Smartphones can already verify your identity by scanning your fingerprint or your face. But theres something inside you thats also unique proof that youre you. 智能手机可以通过扫描指纹或脸来验证身份，但是在内心深...
搜索 复制 The Push to Move Past the Pandemic: COVID Quickly COVID 克服大流行的推动力 Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update on the COVID pandemi...
搜索 复制 Hospitals can be extremely noisy places. 医院是非常嘈杂的地方。 In fact, quietness is one of the lowest-rated categories on national surveys of hospital quality. And: We know the situation is getting worse, rather than gettin...
搜索 复制 Researchers Analyzed Folk Music like It Was DNA: They Found Parallels between Life and Art 研究人员分析民间音乐，发现生活和艺术的相似之处 Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopk...
For 4500 years, the Great Pyramid, or Khufu's Pyramid, has kept watch over the Egyptian desert. In that time, it's suffered the indignities of tomb raiders and gunpowder-toting archaeologists, a la Indiana Jones. But the latest investigation of the p...
It seems every week we find out that someone broke into a big companys databaseslike the recent Equifax data breachand made off with millions of credit card numbers, passwords and other valuable info. And now a new kind of worry: someone could hijack...
How did dogs become humans best friend? Well, one idea is that docile wolves flocked to waste dumps near human camps. But there are problems with that idea. 狗是如何成为人类最好的朋友的?有一种观点认为，温顺的狼聚集在人类生...
In the United States we spend about $160 billion a year on RD. And so for the last seven years weve spent about a trillion dollars. With about 250,000 inventions that are sitting on the shelf that have more than 13 years of patent life, and only 0.5...
Legislation to restrict the current overuse, I would say abuse, of antibiotics by farmers who raise livestock for human consumption.Louise Slaughter, member of Congress from upstate New York, in 2009 on the floor of the House. Slaughter died March 16...
How Hong Kong 'Sees' Invisible Tailpipe Emissions and Pulls Polluters Off the Road 香港如何看待隐形尾气排放并排除污染 Christopher Intagliata: Air pollution causes millions of premature deaths around the world every year, according to...
Our ability to empathize depends, in part, on how much we see ourselves in others. Watch someone get smacked in the face and youre likely to wince. And studies show youre more likely to feel the sting when the other person is more like you, when it c...
This Maine Farm Is Harvesting the Sun's Power while it Picks the Blueberries 缅因州农场在采摘蓝莓的同时也在收获太阳能量 Carey: Im standing on a hillside. All around me are short shrubs with purple stems and waxy leaves. A brisk D...
You might assume that a new purse, painting or pair of shoes will bring happiness. Although youd probably get a bigger kick out of attending a play or spending a week in Paris. But people still mostly opt for items over experiencesbecause the value o...
When it comes to first impressions of a potential new love, the eyes may indeed be the window to the soulbecause the direction of your gaze when looking at this person offers an unconscious, automatic giveaway of whether your initial reaction is roma...
The 2016 presidential candidates have subjected voters nationwide to a cognitive challenge: can you untangle what one candidate is saying while the others talk over him? That challenge is a test of something called the cocktail party problem, or spee...
