美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-28

When autumn rolls around, the leaf peepers come out in force. Armed with digital cameras, they record the most spectacular displays of fall foliage. Well according to a study in the journal Functional Ecology [Toshie Mizunuma et al., The relationship

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-26

When I say telecommuting, do you picture yourself easing into the workday in a pair of fuzzy slippers? Well, so does your boss. But the reality is, youre both dreaming. Because a new study shows that folks who work at home at least some of the time,

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-17

This Scientific Americans podcast is sponsored by audible.com, the number-one online resource for best-selling audio books and more. And now audible.com is offering Scientific American listeners a free audio book of your choice. For details go to aud

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-02-18

A lot of people have had impacted third molars. Third molars produce a lot of chronic pain. Alan Mann, a Prinston University physical anthropologist at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on Februar

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-03-28

In southwestern African namely,desert,the lack of rainwater keeps grass sparks.but in some areas,mysterious rain brings grass with bare center appeared thrive. Now scientists sub discovery the so called the very circles are decreased by wearied littl

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-03-21

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, Im Steve Mirsky Nothing was on the table at the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate March 20th at theAmerican Museum of Natural History in New York City. Heres Hayden PlanetariumDirector Neil deGrasse Ty

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-07-25

Good news for big time networking primates. Other primates that live in large social groups have more street smarts than their comrades with smaller social circles. So finds in a study in the journal Plus1, researchers tested the circumstances under

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-07-18

As a recent sixty-second-science podcast explained music sings up the heartbeats of singers. Now comes the study on music on the step of walkers. It's not just the beat that effects walkers pace. Scientists discovered that even at the same tempo, dif

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-04-25

Chimps show other chimps how to use tools. My roommate showed me some tricks to make better scrambled eggs. Group members teaching each other is called cultural transmission. And a study finds that a cultural transmission is behind the spread of hunt

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-2-26

This is Scientific American-Sixty Seconds Science. I'm Chris *. Got a minute? I'm guessing you brush twice a day, or aspire to. Our ancestors were a little less diligent. But that's a good thing for scientists, because ancient placode teeth are like

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-2-25

Dogs make great listeners, and that maybe because man and man's best friend use analogous brain regions to process voices. Researchers collected almost 200,000 samples including humane-akin vocalizations, as well as environmental noises and silence.

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-01-02

Beatboxing, as musician Tom Thom was doing in that last example, uses the voice to mimic an incredible range of percussion instruments, from drums, and symbols to records scratches and digeridjuz. But to make such well, inhuman sounds, the performer

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-01-01

Haappy New Year. And dont feel bad about taking today off. After all, youve travelled far, and Im not talking about the trip home from the party. According to NASA, just by being on the planet Earth in the last year, youve zipped about 584 million mi

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-01-08

Its important to trust your gut because the stomach and the food put into it can influence the entire body. For example a new study finds that mice that eat lots of fiber have stronger resistance against asthmatic attacks. For two weeks, let mice eat

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2013-09-03

Windows can offer beautiful natural light, but on bright days, the sun lighjt can bake a room. That tropic drive the air conditioner to use and energy costs. Now a team od researchers help this ---for bilogically inspired engineering has designed coo

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2013-09-02

This is scientific American 60 seconds science. I am, got a minute? Everywhere you go, the trillions of microbs is in you got go to. That is a compllicating sort, because according to a new study a more diverse population of testnal bacteria is links

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2013-10-09

This year's prize is about taken thechemicaless experiment to Siberia space.Stafharn Cormack,permanent secondary thewell Swedish academy of sciences,and press conference at 5:45AM US eastern timethis morning.The lord Swedish acedemy of sciences has d

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2013-10-01

this is scientific american 60 seconds science.i am soufi bushiwik got a minute? the mid-day nap is a preschool tradition, but is it necessary? some preschool plan to eliminate this downtime to feed in more teaching which could common the expense of

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-2-18

If the sight of Swiss cheese makes you melt or the thought of a honeycomb gets you buzzing, you may suffer from trypophobia, the most common phobia that you've probably never heard of. Trypophobia is the fear of holes. People with the phobia experien

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-2-10

The drug trade has devastated the communities in central South America. Policy-makers are now looking at moving away from trying to stop drug production to trying to curve demand. If it works,and all kinds of producers lose power, central america's f