科学美国人60秒 SSS Teaching Computers to Enjoy the View

Teaching Computers to Enjoy the View 电脑也会欣赏风景啦！ What sort of scenery do you find most appealing? Researchers in the U.K. asked volunteers that question, through an online photo-rating game, and the result was sort of what you'd ex

科学美国人60秒 SSS 大敌当前小鱼也会为朋友两肋插刀

Guppy Groups Provide Friendly Protection against Foes大敌当前小鱼也会为朋友两肋插刀 Humans aren't the only species that forms friendships. Lots of animals prefer to spend their time only with certain individuals. 人类并不是唯一一

科学美国人60秒 SSS 狼群需要更多生存空间

Wolves Need More Room to Roam狼群需要更多生存空间 Wolves are vital players in various ecosystems. So we humans need to develop a better tolerance for wolves. And the wolves need more space. Thats according to a new study in the journal Natu

科学美国人60秒 SSS 物理学帮你稳住拉杆箱

Keep Rolling Luggage Upright With Physics物理学帮你稳住拉杆箱 If you've ever pulled a rolling suitcase through the airport, chances are you've also been annoyed by this common occurrence: the suitcase starts rocking back and forth on each w

科学美国人60秒 SSS DNA Points to Multiple Migrations into the Americas

DNA Points to Multiple Migrations into the Americas 美洲多次殖民迁移之谜 For more than ten thousand years, Alaska Native and Canadian First Nations people have lived along the Northwest coast of North America. Now, ancient remains have prov

科学美国人60秒 SSS Better Memory Begets Boredom

Better Memory Begets Boredom 记忆力太好的坏处？ Summers here and it wont be long before school-aged kids across America start complaining that theyre tiredof riding their bikes, playing at the park, swimming in the pooland all the other awes

科学美国人60秒 SSS Moths Inspire Better Smartphone Screens

Moths Inspire Better Smartphone Screens 飞蛾帮你改进智能手机屏 One of the things that makes your smartphone so smart is that if you pull it out in the sun, it senses thatand dials up the screen brightness to compensate. But it's not a perf

科学美国人60秒 SSS Last Woollies Had Mammoth Mutations

Last Woollies Had Mammoth Mutations 长毛象灭绝的真正原因是 In their heyday, woolly mammoths blanketed the Siberian steppe, Alaska and large parts of North America. But by 10,000 years ago, warming climates had turned many of the grasslands

科学美国人60秒 SSS 能够对抗公路裂化的新型混凝土配方

New Concrete Recipes Could Cut Cracks能够对抗公路裂化的新型混凝土配方 There's a stretch of highway in Pennsylvania, along U.S. 422. And like every probably 20 feet you see a big pothole or cracking at the joint. Like everywhere. It wa

科学美国人60秒 SSS Bat Chatter Is More Than a Cry in the Dark

When we humans talk to other humans, the sounds we make all have very specific meanings. When I say apple you immediately imagine something that has the characteristics of an apple. Yossi Yovel, a neuroecologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. And

科学美国人60秒 SSS Zika Linked to a Variety of Birth Defects

Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to the abnormal brain development called microcephaly. Now a study finds more evidence for the connection. Researchers at the CDC in the U.S. and the National Health Institute in Colombia found th

科学美国人60秒 SSS Hair Cells Could Heal Skin Sans Scars

Long ago, before BandAids, or even medicine of any kind, our ancestors evolved to heal cuts themselves. If you got sliced open, the body blocked it up, to prevent blood loss, water loss, infection. But as we gained that powerwe sacrificed something e

科学美国人60秒 SSS Climate Cycles Could Have Carved Canyons on Mars

The surface of Mars is etched with ancient river valleys and lake basins. Which makes researchers think that liquid water once flowed on the Red Planet. But how? Today, Mars is too cold for much, if any, liquid water to exist. And 3.8 billion years a

科学美国人60秒 SSS Adult Daughter Orcas May Trigger Moms' Menopause

Menopause marks the end of a females babymaking era. And not just for humans. Female killer whales go through menopause, too. And a new study finds that they might get pushed into menopause by their up-and-coming daughters. Those findings are floated

科学美国人60秒 SSS Bird Feeders Attract Bird Eaters, Too

More than half of U.S. households provide food for birds. It's a billion dollar industry. Now a study asks whether the same feeders that attract birds also attract predators that eat the eggs and newly hatched nestlings of those birds. We imagined th

科学美国人60秒 SSS 有女友的男人更帅?

It turns out the best looking thing on a man may be a good-looking woman. 结果证明，男性身上最耐看的是旁边站一个漂亮的女性。 Researchers report that women find a man they see with an attractive woman more desirable than unatt

科学美国人60秒 SSS 看结容易 打结难

Knot Not Easy to Knot 看结容易 打结难 Of the many puzzles mathematicians ponder, one is new ways to tie knots. There are more than six billion different types of knots that have been tabulated by mathematicians. Six billion. David Leigh, a che

科学美国人60秒 SSS 蜜蜂更偏爱含有尼古丁的花朵

Bees Prefer Flowers That Proffer Nicotine蜜蜂更偏爱含有尼古丁的花朵 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.

科学美国人60秒 SSS Climate Change Fires Up Polar Bear Treadmill

Climate Change Fires Up Polar Bear Treadmill 气候变化害苦了北极熊 Polar Bears spend most of their time roaming the sea ice in search of seals. And seals spend most of their time underneath that ice, avoiding the top predator. But climate ch

科学美国人60秒 SSS Cold Snap Shapes Lizard Survivors

Cold Snap Shapes Lizard Survivors 南方寒潮中的幸存者后来都怎样了 In January 2014, an epic cold wave swept across the southeasta snowpocalypse so severe that thousands of drivers in Atlanta abandoned their cars on icy highways and Inter