Why don't we get a reaction when we eat cashew nuts, then? The irritants are found in the shell oil, but not in the nuts themselves. 那当我们吃腰果时为什么没有反应呢？那是因为刺激物质存在于外壳油脂中，而果仁中却不...
Part of the fun of eating almonds or pecans is cracking the shell and getting the nut. 吃杏仁和胡桃的部分乐趣来源于敲碎外壳后得到果仁。 But, some nuts, like cashews, are almost always sold shelled and roasted. Why aren't cashe...
Here is why, your body is tuned to what are called circadian rhythms which determine things like when you fall asleep, and when you wake up. 原因是，身体遵循生理节律，比如它决定你何时入睡，何时醒来这样的事情。 If you...
If you're a true sports fan, you've probably lost sleep wondering if jet lag affects the performance of your favorite teams. 如果你是铁杆体育迷，你可能会通宵熬夜，想要知道时差是否会影响你所喜爱的球队的表现。 Y...
Blistering occurs when an upper layer of skin rubs against the underlying layer. 当表皮与皮下层相互摩擦时，就会产生水泡。 As a space opens between the skin layers, chemicals cause the blood vessels in the area to leak and allow a...
Remember that hit song from the 80's that featured the chorus: 还记得80年代那首主打合唱的热门歌曲吗： And I would walk five hundred miles/and I would walk five hundred more/Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles/to fall down...
But evolutionists suggest that when animals help animals who are their genetic relatives, or who are likely to return the favor later on, they are actually helping their species to survive the process of natural selection. 但进化论者认为，当动...
Even without the guidance of organized religion, some animals instinctively know that it's a good thing to help others. 即使没有类似人类宗教的指引，有些动物仍能本能地救助处于危难中的其它动物。 For example, when a b...
Despite that fact, when participants were asked to reconstruct the man's face on a computer, 尽管如此，当参与者被要求在电脑上重组这名男子的面部特征时， they gave the man more stereotypically African features, such as dark...
Although there has been much debate about whether race has a biological or social basis, the bottom line is that race is a psychological reality for many people. 虽然对于种族歧视究竟是生物学因素还是社会基础导致还存在很多争...
The researchers divided around 130 students into two groups and assigned each a task. 研究者们将130名左右的学生分成两组，每组分配一项任务。 One group played an Operation like game that involved removing small objects from a h...
It's time to go again to the A Moment of Science mail bag. 欢迎回到阅读《科学一刻》栏目来时间了。 A listener writes: 一位听众来信表示： Dear A Moment of Science, I've heard that owning a dog or cat can be a good way to dea...
Well, Don, research has also found that women tend to laugh a good deal more than men. 哦，唐，研究还发现女人比男人发笑的次数更多。 And male speakers tend to elicit more laughter than female speakers. 而男性演说家比女性更...
Laughter research has found that only a small percentage of laughter, less than 20%, is a sincere response to someone's humor. 对笑容的研究表明只有小部分不超过20%的笑容是发自肺腑的对于某人幽默的回应。 In fact, laugh...
White blood cells, which are part of the immune system, and platelets, which help with blood clotting at a site of injury, also float in plasma. 白细胞是人体免疫系统的一部分而血小板则在人体伤口处起到凝血作用，这两种血...
