60秒科学:智能手机可能正在泄露你的隐私

启用GPS，智能手机里很多应用程序就能助你一臂之力。不过启用之后，那些应用程序到底干了些什么，你清楚吗？ Researchers tracked the activity of 30 popular Android apps and found that half reported info to th

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-01-24

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute. Sailors don't need to read the stars anymorethey've got GPS. But dung beetles do not have GPS. And it now appears that they use the Milky Way as a compass. Dun

SSS 2011-01-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Ever been running the treadmill, exhausted, ready to quitbut you're at the 2.9 mile mark, so you run that last 10th to make it an even three? Why do you do it? W

SSS 2011-05-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Whether it's for streaming Netflix or sharing files, we're gobbling up more and more dataand we want it faster. But even shooting data with lasers over fiber-o

SSS 2011-06-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth's magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilitiesin our eyes. So say

SSS 2011-08-31

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Handwashing is the best way to avoid spreading infection, according to the CDC. But doctors, nurses and hospital staff wash up less than half as often as they

SSS 2011-07-25

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Think humans are at the top of the food chain? Not quite, in parts of Africa. Lions have attacked over 1000 people in Tanzania in the last 20 years. Two thirds o

SSS 2011-08-24

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Rivers today have high muddy banks, sandbars and bends. But they didnt always look that way because it wasnt until the evolution of tree-like plants, some 330 mi

SSS 2011-09-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Asbestos increases the risk for certain cancers. The fibers are thought to do so by skewering cells, setting off chemical reactions that lead to inflammation,

SSS 2012-02-22

This is Scientific American 60 second science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? The most common types of ingested birth control contain estrogen. But the hormone doesnt just prevent human babies. It may be lowering numbers of frog babies, t

SSS 2012-03-26

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? You've probably had the feeling. Your running shoes are pounding the pavementthen suddenly your pain fades away, and you're feeling euphoric. The runner's high

SSS 2010-05-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Why do some chords sound sweet but others make you wince? Well it appears our earsor at least the ears of 250 Minnesota undergradsprefer chords containing harm

SSS 2010-09-22

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Last month's salmonella outbreak got over 1,500 people sick. And one reason salmonella may be such a heavy hitter is that it actually hijacks our immune response

60秒科学:老者吐真言Elderly with Cognitive Decline Off

Elderly people with loss of executive function--lessening of inhibitions--are more likely to offer useful, but tactless, advice. Christopher Intagliata reports 上了年纪的人失去了决策的作用后自身抑制力的减弱更有可能提出有用

SSS 2010-12-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Galileo first spotted Saturn's rings 400 years ago. But since then, scientists have been stumped about how they got there. Because the rings are almost pure wa

SSS 2011-11-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? A hungry fish can kill prey with a quick bite. That is, of course, if its prey hasn't already died of fright. Take tasty dragonflies. The mere presence of pred

SSS 2011-01-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? The Apollo moon missions ended almost 40 years ago. But for lunar scientists, they're gifts that keep on giving. Researchers studying rocks brought back by ast

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-11-15

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science. I am Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? In developed countries, we've mostly eliminated freeloaders like parasitic worms from our guts. But we also have the highest rates of inflammatory bowel disease

SSS 2012-06-08

This is Scientific Americans' Sixty-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? Vampire spiders, as the name suggests, like blood. And they feast on blood-filled mosquitoes to get it. But only female mosquitoes suck blood. So how do spi

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