SSS 2009-05-21

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Can you name those notes? Probably not. Perhaps one in ten thousand speakers of European languages has perfect pitch - the ability to recognize a note without having hea

SSS 2009-05-22

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. If you ever got picked on in the schoolyard, you might have wished for some sort of superpower, like unbeatable speed or maybe just the ability to completely disappear. Now scientists

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Hybrid cars are good for the environment. But scientists say that they might be bad for pedestrians. Because hybrids are so quiet, it can be hard for walkers to hear them until its too late. Listen to this. [quiet car sound] Thats a Toyota Prius mov

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Can you name those notes? Probably notperhaps one in 10,000 speakers of European languages has perfect pitch, the ability to recognize a note without having heard any reference note first. But theres a much better chance you could successfully name

60秒科学:Weak Have Stronger Hearing

If you ever got picked on in the schoolyard, you might have wished for some sort of superpower: like unbeatable speed or maybe just the ability to completely disappear. Now scientists at the College of Wooster in Ohio say that you might have had a s

SSS 2008-11-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Every year, scores of manatees are killed by boats in Floridas waters. Their plight is an ecological concern. And everyone from marine biologists to Marg

SSS 2009-05-13

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Hybrid cars are good for the environment, but scientists say that they might be bad for pedestrians. Because hybrids are so quiet that can be hard for wa

SSS 2010-11-17

We humans are pretty good at communicating with sounds other than words. But how much of this is hard-wired, and how much do we pick up from others? To find out, researchers recorded the nonverbal sounds of people born deaf, as they responded to a ra

SSS 2010-08-09

Blue whales off the California coast make calls that, sped up 10 times, sound like (sound of two-part call). The original is a wall-rattling frequency too low for us to hear. Scientists analyzed around 2,500 of those calls, and found that the second

Country Music Ladies Put Men in Their Place

Country Music Ladies Put Men in Their Place American country music lyrics often describe women as they might appear in mens dreams. This is especially true of songs by many male artists. But the songs by Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye are different. The t

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