This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. You may have noticed that as you get older, you start forgetting more stuff: like, where you left your glasses, or the names of your children. Well, if y

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(一)月

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

A study of 400 people found that those who were mindful, which means they pay attention to their present thoughts and feelings, were less likely to be obese. They also had lessbelly fat than less mindful people. But it does not prove that higher mind

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This has been by far the most challenging few weeks in my professional life. 这是我职业生涯迄今为止最具挑战性的几个星期。 I understood cognitively that I was facing a crossroads in my evolution as a player and as a man, and that

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This is Scientific American's Sixty-Second Psych. I'm Christie Nicholson. Got the minute? Say a teenager takes the car without permission and crashes it. Or pole jumps off a bridge into white water. Bruised, broken or worse, arrested, the first words

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Turns out youre not just what you eat. Youre when you eat. Because a new study in mice suggests that, in the battle of the bulge, the timing of meals influences the piling on of pounds. In the experiment, researchers gave groups of mice either standa

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Researchers have found that peoples' mental abilities peak at 22 before beginning to deteriorate just five years later。 研究人员发现,人的智力在22岁时达到顶峰,而仅在五年之后就会开始衰退。 Professor Timothy Salthous

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Air Pollution Linked to Cognitive Decline Several years ago a massive survey of women called the Nurses' Health Study began collecting data on memory, thinking skills and other cognitive measures. Jennifer Weuve of the Rush Institute of Healthy Aging

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Everyone knows that jet lag feeling: Youre groggy at dinner, but unable to sleep at night; you cant muster hunger at socially appropriate times and even your digestive system doesnt seem to cooperate. 大家都知道倒时差的感觉:吃饭时昏昏

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You might think it's your colleagues or the pressures of work that's getting you down at the office, but new research suggests it could well be the air you're breathing instead. Scientists in the US have found that the concentration of carbon dioxide

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JUDY WOODRUFF: This weekend, the crossword puzzle marks its hundredth birthday. First published in a NewYork newspaper, it's become a daily ritual for many and even been rumored to help stave off dementia. But there isn't much evidence to back up tha

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AS much as we love our digital devices, many of us have an uneasy sense that they are destroying our attention spans. We skitter from app to app, seldom alighting for long. Our ability to concentrate is shot, right? 我们喜爱我们的数码设备,

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How Do You study for An Important Exam? 如何备战重要的考试? 获得186好评的回答@Mary Temple 1. Give yourself enough time to study. 给自己充足的时间学习。 2. Organize your study space. 安排好自己的学习空间。 3. Us

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Hop compound boosts brain function - but you'd need to drink 3,500 PINTS a day 啤酒能让你更聪明吗?啤酒花中所含的化学物质能刺激大脑功能-前提是每天喝3500品脱。 Beer, or at least one of its ingredients, could boost br

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今天我们要学的词是cognitive. Cognitive 形容词,意思是认知的。最新研究显示, Women with mild cognitive impairment deteriorate twice as fast as men with the same condition. 患有轻微认知能力缺失的女性病情恶化速

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母乳喂养降低老年痴呆症风险 LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Mothers who breastfeed run a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's, with longer periods of breastfeeding further reducing the risk, a new study paper unveiled on Monday. The paper, pub

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The cognitive challenges of walking while texting are well known, both to scientists and to those of us who have ambled into a light pole or a fellow pedestrian or have been on the receiving end of someone else's distracted movements. Strolling while

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Life begins at forty - and don't you forget it THE belief that life begins at 40 is a myth. Research has found that the fourth decade heralds the beginning of the end. A study of 2,282 people aged 18 to 87 found that hitting 40 was synonymous with fo

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下面为大家整理的是雅思听力核心词汇中字母C打头的部分。雅思听力词汇是大家在备考听力考试的时候一定要提前准备的,尤其是常用的核心词汇部分。下面我们就一起来看看下面的词汇吧。

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cafeteria n.自助小餐厅 calculate v.计算,推算,估算 calorie n.热量(卡路里) campaign n.(政治性或商业性的)运动,游说,宣传活动 campus n..(大学)校园 cancel v.放弃,撤消,取消,废除 candidate n..1.侯先人,候补人;

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