美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-12

What prehistoric genius first discovered how to transform milk into delicious cheese? We may never find out, but we now know that humans were purposefully making cheese as early as 7,500 years ago. The finding is in the journal Nature. To make cheese

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-11

What does an 800-pound gorilla eat? If you said: anything it wants, youre not thinking like a scientist. A scientist would say, Let me analyze the isotopic composition of its excreta and Ill get back to you. Because a new study shows that the ratio o

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-10

Porcupines sport some 30,000 quills, which easily penetrate fleshand then stay stuck in it. Now, scientists have analyzed the shape of individual quills to discover what makes them so effectiveand how we can harness their power for medical devices. T

SSS 2012-01-11

This is Scientific Americans -60 seconds science .I'm Steve Murskey.Got the minute? People with high blood pressure are often told to watch the salt, and it's long been far that hypertension related to excess salt is caused by the salt increasing in

SSS 2012-01-16

Magnifying glass, calipers, teeny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fighting it out to find the world's smallest frog. One team just announced the discovery of the unaverage 7.7 millimeter p* which can sit comfortabl

SSS 2012-01-13

This is Scientific America's 60 second science, I'm Sentay Graber, this will just take a minute. Magnifying glass, telescope, tiny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fading it out to find the world's smallest frog.One

SSS 2012-01-12

If a country wants keep its nuclear bomb tests secret, it'll probably do it deep underground. But, even if you bury the bomb, some clues are reached the surface. So says the study in journal Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists analyzed the radar

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-05

They say that all's fair in love and war. But when it comes to making a deal, people have very definite ideas about what's fair. A recent study found that people will let a basic physiological need go unfulfilled rather than accept an unfair transact

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-07

As a kindergarten teacher might say, sharing is caring. She might not mention that cooperation is also a great way to form a community and thus improve everyone's chances of survival. Humans aren't only ones to apply this strategy. Marine bacteria al

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-10

Thinking about getting a new tatoo, Maybe a nice 3D double helix or an I-heart-Higgs Bosons. Well, you might wind up getting some mycobacteria with your body art. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned up about two dozen cases of t

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-11

A male songbird's tune advertises his status and availability to choosy female. But rock sparrows offer a notable exception. Their crooning can also reveal when the male has been jilted. Researchers studied the songs of male rock sparrows in the Fren

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-12

This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? When Pyrex cookware first came out, it was advertised as icebox to oven. Because it was made of borosilicate glass which could weather large temperature chan

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-13

When Pyrex(公司名) cookware first came out, it was advertised as the ice box to oven, because itwas made of borosilicate glass which could weather large temperature changes without undergoing thermo-shock and shattering. But today, Americans Pyrex

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-14

Plants can pull carbon dioxide, the planet warming greenhouse gas, out of earth's atmosphere. But these aren't the only living organisms that affect carbon dioxide levels and thus global warming. Nope, I'm not talking about humans. Humble sea otters

SSS 2012-08-14

Five-hundred years ago, a 15-year-old Incan girl was sacrificed, along with two other children. Her mummy has now revealed that she had an active lung infection at her death. Because a technique called shotgun proteomics has been used to determine wh

SSS 2012-08-15

This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Ian Chant. Got a minute? Having a kid changes everything from your sleep schedule to the statues of that formerly spare room. The stable of bacteria that living in women's gut is also transformed

SSS 2012-08-16

This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Lots of animals build homes for protection. Think Beaver lodges and termite mounds. Hermit crabs, on the other hand, inhibit hand-me-down homes. But they rem

SSS 2012-08-17

This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Evelyn Lamb. Got a minute? Big city dwellers who need a car for less than a day can rent Zipcars by the hour. Zipcar's ads emphasize environmentalism and community. But a recent study shows most

SSS 2012-08-20

This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I am Amy Kraft. Got a minute? Sweat potatoes contains fiber, vitamin A and calcium, but the way that scientists think they can make them even more healthful is literally shocking. Researchers found t

SSS 2012-08-21

This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Worldwide, we know of enough uranium to power today's nuclear reactors for another hundred years according to the nuclear energy agency. But scientists say t