The midday nap is preschool tradition,but is it necessary?some preschool plan to eliminate this down time to fit in more teaching,which could come the expensive learning,because the study suggests that the news may help kids to retain the information

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This is Scientific American's Sixty Seconds Science. I am K.H., this will just take a minute. Thanks to WiFi, we can watch movies, play games and check email from the comfort of the couch. And soon we may be able to repurpose our WiFi signal so we ca

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Called grass hopper mice have an unusual favorite food. Not grass hopper, no, they really like scorpions. You can see theproblem. But the mice shrug off any scorpion things(stings).And the new study shows how. Researcher injected common house mice of

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This is Scientific Americans 60-second science. I am Karen Hopkin. It will take just a minute. Thanks for the Wifi we can watch TV, play games and check email from the comfort of the couch. And soon we maybe able to repurpose our Wifi signals so we c

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Smart phone battery down to ten percent?Time to turn down the brightness on the screen. Right? It's a classic strategy to squize more dues from the battery, and it works. But that trick might be less effetive than you think because it turns out nearl

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Chimpanzees, they are much like us, genetically and atomically, and as it turns out, cocktail logically. Because we finally have solid evidence that chimps drink alcohol.Social researcher who observed while chimpanzees throw back fermented tree tap

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This is scientific American 60 seconds science. I'm *, got a minute ?Genetically engineered bacteria already proves some products are commercial interests or biometical importance such as insulin. And coaxing the organism to do so can be done with a

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This is Scientific American's Sixty-Second-Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? We expect guinea worm to be the second disease in the history of the world to be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth. Former President Jimmy Carter, in a

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Porcupines sport some 30,000 quills, which easily penetrate fleshand then stay stuck in it. Now, scientists have analyzed the shape of individual quills to discover what makes them so effectiveand how we can harness their power for medical devices. T

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What prehistoric genius first discovered how to transform milk into delicious cheese? We may never find out, but we now know that humans were purposefully making cheese as early as 7,500 years ago. The finding is in the journal Nature. To make cheese

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Many of us talk with our hands. But some researchers suspect we may listen with our hands, too. Cognitive scientists had subjects listen to spoken sentences, each in the third person and present tense, such as John walks to work. As they listened, th

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Crampfish became famous thanks to the movie Finding Nimo. In real life, their social hierarchy is simple, larger fish dominate their smaller counterparts. Now we know that to reinforce the social structure, the fish communicate with aggressive and su

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Gretchen Cuda Kroen. Got a minute? Nasty bacteria cling to the surfaces of countertops. They also stick to medical devices - like catheters - that are placed inside the human body, where they can bec

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Don't forget to move your clocks forward this weekend and then don't forget to be more careful on the days after you adjust your clocks. Because 2009 study found the hour of the lost sleep was related to increase job related injuries. Probably becaus

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Clouds, they are fluffy, white and full of mystery. Although scientist may have better handle on clouds, even they don't know at all. Because the new study can show that atmosphere gases can help clouds form in a way no one had ever considered. That'

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Ordinarily you've called it a pistachio a pistachio, but if you are for example an immigrant from China, and you've just seen a Ming vase. You might call a pistachio and a happy nut. Because visual cues can affect language in people with multiple cul

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You're in the supermarket, picking a breakfast cereal. Will it be cinnamon raisin or oats in honey. Hard to decide? Well, what if I told you they both cost the same, would that make it easier? Well, a new study suggests it would not. Because research

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Chimpanzees.They are much like us, genetically and atomically, and as it turns out, cocktail logically. Because we finally have solid evidence that chims drink alcohol. So say researchers who observed wild chimpanzees throw back fermented tree sap. T

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Have you ever sworn that you left your phone in the car only to find it in your pocket or on your desk or, admit it, in the fridge. Or maybe you just dreamed that you left it on the dashboard(汽车仪表盘) and the memory was so real, you had to ch

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Early warning systems can be the difference between life and death in earthquake-prone regions. But they are expensive. The US, Mexico and Japan have such systems. That leaves large swats of central and South America, Asia and the Caribbean unprotect

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