科学美国人60秒 SSS Hand Soap Ingredient Can Up Body Bacteria Burden

The antimicrobial triclosan is a common ingredient in hand soap. But it's also found in shampoos, deodorants, toothpaste, even lip gloss. So it's not too surprising that triclosan also shows up in blood, urine, breast milk and mucus. But here's the w

科学美国人60秒 SSS Many More Americans Issue End-of-Life Instructions

Most people dont like to think about death, much less plan for it. Many Americans have thus failed to officially record their wishes should they be faced with catastrophic circumstances that, for example, would require them to be placed on a ventilat

科学美国人60秒 SSS Silk Road Transported Goods--and Disease

For thousands of years, whats called the Silk Road was a group of land and sea trade routes that connected the Far East with South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe. Of course, when humans travel they carry their pathogens with them.

科学美国人60秒 SSS Cut Road Deaths with Mountain Lions

Are you afraid of sharks? What about snakes or spiders? Put those fears aside: because in the U.S. youre far more likely to be killed or injured by a deer bounding across the road. Bambi and his kind cause more 200 humans deaths each year, plus some

Dodgers Doc: No Non-Injury Tommy John Surgery To Improve Performance 道奇队 Doc︰ 没有非损伤汤米约翰手术以提高性能

There was a recent study that did a survey of parents and coaches asking them what they thought about Tommy John surgery. 有了最近的一项研究做了一个调查的父母和教练询问了他们的想法汤米约翰手术。 Dr. Stan Conte, vic

Goo Keeps Bones Strong but Supple 黏性物质使骨骼强，但柔顺

New news is goo newswhen its inside our bones, anyway. Because a combination of imaging techniques and modeling has revealed that our bones are filled with a natural chemical goo thats key to the bones function as support structures. The finding is i

科学美国人60秒 SSS Flu Vaccine Keeps Connecticut Kids From Hospitals 流感疫苗保持康涅狄格州孩子从医院

Flu vaccination is proving itself among Connecticuts tots. 接种流感疫苗证明自己在康涅狄格州的小孩。 In 2010 a state law went into effect that requires toddlers aged 6 months to 59 months to get flu shots if they attend child care.

科学美国人60秒 SSS Bedroom TV Linked To Kid Weight Gain 卧室电视相连的孩子体重增加

Parents, its time to get the TV out of your kids bedroom. 父母，是时候要离开你的孩子的卧室电视。 About 60 percent of all teenagers bedrooms in the U.S. include a TV set. Now research suggests that the mere presence of that TV in th

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2016-8-16

Sometimes a snout full of snot can be just what the doctor ordered. At least if youre a dolphin. Because a new study shows that a little bit of mucus helps these marine mammals generate the rapid-fire stream of clicks they emit and use for echolocati

科学美国人60秒 SSS Commuting Patterns Help Forecast Flu Outbreaks

Every flu seasonthats now through the springepidemiologists track flu infections as they break out across the country. And they forecast how bad it's going to get: at the national level, regionally, state by state. They even forecast for metro areas,

科学美国人60秒 SSS Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Actually Promotes It

Used to be, teenage kids had to carry around a bag of flour wrapped in a blanket to learn the responsibilities of parenthood. But these days? The same lesson is taught with hi-tech dolls that cry and record every interaction. You know they get grumpy

科学美国人60秒 SSS Color-Changing Skin Aids Climate Control and Communication

Various animals evolved coloration that keeps them hidden. A jaguar's patterns help it slink undetected across the sun-dappled rainforest floor. The mottled pigmentation on the wings of some let them rest on tree bark undisturbed. And then there are

科学美国人60秒 SSS Pesticides Act as Honeybee Contraceptives

Over the last year, beekeepers in the U.S. lost nearly half their honeybee hives. And there are a lot of suspected culprits for this so-called beepocalypsefrom parasitic mites, to viruses, to simple land use changes. But a study out earlier this year

科学美国人60秒 SSS Humans and Birds Cooperate to Share Beehive Bounty

This is a story about the birds and the bees. When the Yao people of Mozambique want to find beehives full of honey they make this noise [brrrr-hm]. That sound attracts the attention of what are appropriately called honeyguide birds. If you ask Yao h

科学美国人60秒 SSS This Shark Is the Vertebrate Methuselah

By human standards, a few vertebrate species have incredible longevity. Some tortoises live for nearly 200 years. Bowhead whales can live even a decade or two longer. But now theres a new champion: the Greenland sharkwhich conservative estimates have

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2016-8-11

The Explorers Club in New York Citywhose members have included Neil Armstrong, Teddy Roosevelt, and the first men to reach both the North and South poleshas a reputation for serving exotic entrees, like fried tarantula and goats eyeballs. In 1951 the

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2016-8-05

Mars is a planet of outsized splendor. Despite being only half as big and a tenth as heavy as Earth, it bears the solar systems tallest mountain, longest canyon and largest crater. At 22 and 12 kilometers wide, however, its inner moon Phobos and oute

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2016-8-06

Watch your tonebecause it turns out it really isnt what you sayit's how you say it. At least when it comes to couples in couples counseling. 注意你的语气，事实证明你说什么不重要，而是在于你怎么说。至少在心理咨询时涉

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2016-8-07

Psychologist Saho Takagi, a graduate student at Kyoto University in Japan, strolls into one of Japan's many cat cafes. These establishments allow customers to pay an hourly fee for the chance to cuddle some cats. They're popular in Japan because so m

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2016-8-08

Public lands in the U.S. are managed with two goals in mind: protecting biodiversity and providing people with recreational opportunities, a chance to connect with nature. But sometimes those two goals are at oddsespecially if recreation, activities