Scientific American-60 Second Science 科学美国人-60秒科学是科学美国人网站下的一套广播栏目,开办于2006年,内容以科学报道为主,用仅仅一分钟的时间对当今的科学技术新发展作以简明、通俗的介绍,对于科学的发展如何影响人们的生活环境、健康状况及科学技术,提供了大量简明易懂的阐释。以生动、有趣的事例展现了生活中的科学,富于趣味性!
Students who listened to different chords rated as more pleasing the ones that westerners think of as harmonious, the individual notes of which have definite mathematical relationships 【英文文本】 Why do some chords sound sweet but others make...
Want to feed a hungry world? According to David Gracer, add bugs to the menu. Gracer is, he says, a normal guy whos also an entomophagist, an advocate for insects as food. He gave a talk about ingesting insects at a May 16th TEDxCambridge conference...
Could the eradication of smallpox have been a factor in the spread of HIV? Thats the question posed by researchers in the journal BMC Immunology, who think that the vaccine might have offered partial protection against HIV. As smallpox was wiped out,...
How do baby coral find a new home in the open ocean? They listen very closelyfor reef sounds. Scientists at the University of Bristol in England had already discovered in the last few years that baby fish who live among coral use sound to find the re...
Fungi with previous experience in bioremediation show promise for breaking down BPA, an endocrine disruptor, and plastics that contain them. Cynthia Graber reports 【英文文本】 Bisphenol A. Also called BPA, it's used to make shatter-proof plast...
1983年4月7日,美国"挑战者"号航天飞机在太空飞行期间,两名航天员在太空自由自在地飘飞行走了3个多小时.这是人类首次不系绳索自由地在太空行走. 航天员为何能在太空行走呢?原...
Time for M.I.T.s Clean Energy Prize. The annual competition gives teams of university students a chance to compete for $200,000 to kick-start their new clean energy business. One finalist designed a compression technology for natural gas wells that w...
The Patriot Act and the Bioterrorism Preparedness Act were passed in 2001 and 2002. These laws in part cover research on pathogens and toxins thought to have potential as bioweapons. The Bush administration increased funding for research on such toxi...
Weve all agonized over difficult decisions. Go to college or backpack around Europe? Buy or rent? Apple pie or death by chocolate? Well, agonize no morebecause a study in the journal Science suggests that simply washing your hands after making a toug...
[Clip of Rodney Dangerfield, saying Its not easy being me; when I was born the doctor told my mother, I did all I could, but he pulled through anyway.] Rodney mighta felt badbut he should make you feel good. Because a new study shows that laughter ca...
The big dream for neuroscientists is to be able to watch our brain cells in action, in real time. Well, new research has maybe found the most promising tool yeta technique to watch individual neurons light up in response to a stimulus, like flipping...
This podcast is one minute long. If you listen while going for a walk in a park or working in a garden, youre 20 percent of the way to giving your mental health a good boost. Because exercising in natural areas is not only good for your physical heal...
A couple million years ago, mammoths migrated north from Africa to colonize Eurasia. Sometime around then a massive ice age kicked inand it was stay warm or die. So their tails and heat-shedding ears shrunk, and they grew thick coats of oily fur. But...
When my toddler hears a strange noise, hell say, Mom, what does that sound look like? His amusing phrasing innocently mixes sight and sound. But now a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain actually links the audio with the...
国内西式快餐的价格一直受大众瞩目。在我国,西式快餐巨头们以强大广告效应以及庞大连锁经营维持着连外国人都惊讶的价格体系。最近,不少以低价作为核心竞争力的西式快餐连锁店纷纷...