SSS 2011-12-29

nobody likes getting shots, but what if you could make the needles so tiny that they broke skin painlessly. engineers from top university have created such micro needles, made from major protein in silk, fibrolin. the work is in the journal of advanc

SSS 2011-12-23

You've found that perfect pricey gift to your significant other. Now you decided to pick up a little something else, but wait! The second smaller gift can actually take away from the powerful impression from the gift No. 1. That's according to the an

SSS 2011-12-27

This is Scientific American's sixty seconds science, I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The eastern green tree frog looks exactly like the close related cops gree tree frog, the big difference between the two species is beneath the surface. The eastern

SSS 2010-12-30

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Over the years regulations have developed to limit the hours of hospital interns and residents, because someone putting in a 100-hour workweek might not be at their best w

SSS 2010-12-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sticks and stones may break some bonesunless you're a young female chimp. In that case, you're more likely to cradle your stick like a dollie. That findi

SSS 2011-02-22

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? A new development in malaria: Plasmodium vivax, the worlds most common malaria parasite, now infects people previously considered to be resistant. Peter Zimmerman from Cas

SSS 2011-02-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? There have been tremendous declines in fertility. The key has been the prevention of unwanted births, really around the globe. John Casterline directs the Initiative in

SSS 2011-01-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? In a laboratory vault outside Paris is a small cylinder of platinumiridium alloy that serves as the standard for all mass measurements worldwide. By an 1889 international

SSS 2011-05-27

Do you come from a country that has let's say a history of environmental disaster or conquests, and your culture probably tight that has strong social norms and doesn't tolerate much deviance from this norms, and then your culture probably autocratic

SSS 2011-05-19

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its graduation season. And some scientists got to wondering whether the folks who shake hundreds of hands while passing out diplomas run the risk of coming

SSS 2012-05-07

Jack Nicholson, playing the crazed caretaker in The Shining, makes me reach for a blanket. Now a study finds that people we find, well, creepy can actually make us feel colder. The research will be published in the journal Psychological Science. Rese

SSS 2012-05-04

Heres a tale of genes, smells and pigs. Most people have two copies of a gene that enables them to detect a steroidal pheromone called androstenonewhich is found in male mammals, particularly porkers. But most pigs in developed countries have been ch

SSS 2012-05-03

Most people have two copies of a gene that enables them to detect a steroidal pheromone called androstenonewhich is found in male mammals, particularly porkers. But most pigs in developed countries have been chemically castrated. Which means much les

SSS 2012-05-01

This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute? Its more bad news for vampires, but good news for the fight against food-borne illness: a compound in garlic is extremely effective at fighting Campylobacter, bacteri

SSS 2012-03-05

This is Scientific American 60 science, I am Charles Q. Choi! Psoriasis is an autoimmune diseasethe immune system mistakenly attacks its own body, causing red, itchy, scaly patches on the skin. But there may be a hidden upside. People with psoriasis

SSS 2012-02-07

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. American is still far short of the recommend daily portions of food and vegetables, and kids are no ...veggies at school cafateria. So researches tested whether visual cuse at hopeful foods could incre

SSS 2012-02-09

This Scientific Americans 60 senconds science. I'm Cythia Graber. This will just take a minute. How did the zebra get stripes. One theory holds that stripes help confused predators. But stripes might be primarilly to protect zebras from ferocious ins

SSS 2012-02-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Sophine Bushwick. Got a minute? Crickets make a big contribution to the sounds of a summer night. And theyve been doing so for some 165 million years. Now paleontologists have reconstructed the son

SSS 2012-02-15

This is Scientific American 60 second science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute The sounds many animals make are determined by their genesthey don't have to learn them. Humans, on the other hand, have all sorts of languages and accents, stuf

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托儿们在托福备考的过程中总是会遇到各种各样的问题或者困惑,今天将从托福听力的终极技巧出发，帮助考生们解决托福听力的根本问题，从而出敌致胜。 很多考友总是认为，听写是一个非常