科学美国人60秒 SSS 好人的钱包更空

Nice People Have Emptier Wallets Are you an agreeable personyou know, a nice guy? If so, a logical follow-up might be: how are your finances? And here's why: Agreeable peoplehave lower savings, they have higher debt, and they're also more likely to g

科学美国人60秒 SSS 长颈鹿妈妈的基因使得小长颈鹿很难被发现

Mom's Genes Make Some Giraffes Hard to Spot Just like humans have virtually unique sets of fingerprints, every giraffehas a unique set of spots. Not that those spot patterns really help wildlife biologists identify their study subjects in real time.

科学美国人60秒 SSS 从天空扫描古代文明

Scanning Ancient Civilizations from the Skies If there's a fifth Indiana Jones movie, Indy might want to use one of the hottest new tools revolutionizing archaeology: LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, which allows archaeologists to survey ancien

科学美国人60秒 SSS 啤酒发酵跳跃式前进

Beer Fermentation Hops Along The Allagash Brewing Company, in Maine, makes a lot of bottle-conditioned beersbrews that get their carbonation by fermenting a second time, in the bottle, as yeast belch out CO2. And because they do bottle conditioning t

科学美国人60秒 SSS 激光进步改变了我们的生活:诺贝尔物理学奖

Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics This years prize is about tools made from light. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Arthur Ashkin for the opt

科学美国人60秒 SSS 通过进化改善生活:诺贝尔化学奖

Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry This years prize is harnessing the power of evolution. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Frances H. Arnold for the d

科学美国人60秒 SSS 诺贝尔物理学奖颁给激光控制实验者

Nobel in Physics for Controlling Laser Light 诺贝尔物理学奖颁给激光控制实验者 The main practical application of CPA so far has been in the eye surgery. It was the first one, and I think it is the one that is used by the most people fo

科学美国人60秒 SSS 野生鸣禽能唱出新歌

Wild Songbirds Can Pick Up New Tunes Only a few kinds of animals are known to learn their vocalizations from listening to others. Us, of course. Elephants. Bats. Cetaceanswhales and dolphins. Pinnipedswalruses, seals and sea lions. And parrots, hummi

科学美国人60秒 SSS 日食对蜜蜂来说是灭顶之灾

Solar Eclipse Was Buzzkill for Bees Last summer's total solar eclipse sliced right through Columbia, Missouri. It was remarkable. As a biologist I generally reserve that word 'remarkable' for biological phenomena.Candace Galen is based at the Univers

科学美国人60秒 SSS 医疗保健让尼安德特人“超重”

Health Care Let Neandertals Punch above Their Weight Health care isn't just a benefit of the modern human age. It goes way back. All the way, even, to the Neandertals.We imagine they would have been cleaning wounds, dressing wounds. Penny Spikins, a

科学美国人60秒 SSS 理性社交

Tally up all your 'regular spots'places you visit on a weekly basis like restaurants, markets, parks. And what do you get? A new study says that most of us limit our hangouts to some 25 places.So every time we adopt a new place, we abandon another on

科学美国人60秒 SSS 章鱼吃了摇头丸会变得可爱

Asocial Octopuses Become Cuddly on MDMA When humans take the drug MDMAbest known as ecstasythey feel a deeper connection to othersemotionally and physically. Because MDMA affects serotonin, a nervous system chemical. Serotonin is one of the oldest ne

科学美国人60秒 SSS 诺贝尔经济学奖强调应对气候变化的必要性

Economics Nobel Highlights Climate Action Necessity The first thing is that people have to come to grips with the difficulties we face. I think the scientists have and many of the people have, but the governments have to.Yale Universitys William Nord

科学美国人60秒 SSS 在万圣节，考虑一下巧克力蚊

For Halloween, Consider the Chocolate Midge As you unwrap a Halloween candy or two, it's worth paying your respects to the real reason for many of the treats: a tiny fly whose trick is to make chocolate possible. They're all in the family Ceratopogon

科学美国人60秒 SSS 骨头和石头:墓地地质学

Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology A tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., focuses on the geology of the landscape and the mausoleums. 参观纽约布朗克斯区的伍德劳恩公墓，他的研究重点是当地的地质景观和陵墓。

科学美国人60秒 SSS 公路交叉口保护着迁徙的叉角羚和开车的人

Highway Crossings Protect Migrating Pronghorns--and Motorists Ever hear of the pronghorn antelope in the American west? Well, its not really an antelopeits actually more closely related to giraffes than to true antelopes. And the last known migration

科学美国人60秒 SSS 以毒制毒

Antifreeze Surface Fights Ice with Ice Every year, 20 million tons of salt are dumped on roads and highways across the U.S. to eliminate ice. And airlines spray up to 1,000 gallons of antifreeze on any one plane to de-ice it. But now scientists have

科学美国人60秒 SSS 鲨鱼

Sharks aren't typically thought of as vegetarians. Or even omnivores. But about 10 years ago, scientists documented a dainty relative of the hammerhead shark, known as a bonnethead shark, consuming copious amounts of seagrass. 锤头鲨通常不被认为

科学美国人60秒 SSS 海豚降低叫声以与船只的噪音竞争

Dolphins Dumb Down Calls to Compete with Ship Noise The oceans are getting louder. And coastal areas are some of the noisiest, as in this underwater recording, captured 17 miles off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. 海洋的声音越来越大。在这