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科学美国人60秒:Big-Boned Chickens May Be Humans' Geologic Legacy
Hundreds of millions of years from now, when humans are probably long gone, what sort of geologic record will we leave behind for future archaeologists? Plastics, sure? Concrete, m
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科学美国人60秒:Ancient Marine Reptiles Had Familiar Gear
Long before dolphins swam the seas, their near look-alike ichthyosaurs inhabited the earth's oceans. Now scientists say these ancient seafaring reptiles may have had more in commo
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科学美国人60秒:Little Aphids Ride Big Ones to Safety
Imagine you're an aphid, a tiny insect that sucks plant sap for a living. You’re munching away when a cow comes along to munch on the same plant you’re on. You feel it
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科学美国人60秒:Utah's Deserts Are Bee Hotspots
<CLIP: "As all of you know, today we are keeping faith with the future. I'm about to sign a proclamation that will establish the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument.
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科学美国人60秒:Who's a Smart Dog?!
If you have a dog, you’ve probably tried to train it. The basics, like sit and stay. Plus, of course, not to go to the bathroom on your rugs. And if your dog learns things qu
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科学美国人60秒:Data Reveals Most Influential Movies
If you go by ticket sales, the most popular film of all time is Gone With the Wind. <Gone with the Wind clip: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."> That is adjusting for inflat
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科学美国人60秒:Blue Whales Have Changed Their Tune
Blue whales are the largest animals ever to exist on Earth. But they're still tough to track. Because they live underwater where we can't easily see them--and often in remote are
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科学美国人60秒:Smart Meters Speed Showers
You've probably seen those little cards in hotel rooms: towel on the floor if you want a fresh one, towel on the rack if you'll use it again. And using towels more than once mean
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科学美国人60秒:Mars Mission Makes Clean Landing
“InSight has passed through peak deceleration, telemetry shows the spacecraft saw about eight G’s.” “Radio science reports carrier detected.” [Applaus
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科学美国人60秒:Rains Bring a Microbial Massacre to Chilean Desert
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the driest spots on Earth. Sometimes, you can't see any life at all.
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"As I was a kid those drives were very boring…because there was -
科学美国人60秒:Consensual Hugs Seem to Reduce Stress
When a friend comes to you after a stressful day, how do you comfort them? Do you let them rant? Do you pour them a glass of wine? Those could work. But a new study finds that a ve
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科学美国人60秒:World's Largest Organism Faces Bleak Future
It lives in south-central Utah. And it’s huge. In fact, it is thought to be the largest living thing on the planet. It’s a stand of trees, a field of aspens all clones
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科学美国人60秒:U.S. Immigrants Leave Country—and Microbes—Behind
Immigrants to the U.S. might lose touch with certain customs and traditions back home. But here's something else they lose: their microbes.
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科学美国人60秒:Science News Briefs from All over
Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here’s a short piece from the November 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatch
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科学美国人60秒:Babies and Chimps Share a Laugh
A baby's laugh is unmistakable: <CLIP: baby laughter> But aside from its squealing, high-pitched quality, there's another factor that sets a baby's laugh apart from ours: babies
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科学美国人60秒:Singing Fish Reveal Underwater Battles in the Amazon
Six years ago, the fish ecologist Rodney Rountree was on a skiff in the Peruvian Amazon. He was holding a piranha in his hand…underwater…in a river filled with other
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科学美国人60秒:Social Construct of Race Imposes Biology
“So humans are really really good, or at least Western traditionally educated humans are really, really good at categorizing things into types.”Jennifer Raff. She&rsquo
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科学美国人60秒:Pandas Swoon to Particular Croons
If you're a giant panda, this sound <CLIP: Panda Bleat 1> means romance.
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"I wouldn't call it a romantic serenade <laughter>" Megan Owen, a conservation biologist at the San Dieg -
科学美国人60秒:First Benefit of Knowing Your Genome
“I think if genome sequencing gets just super cheap then it’s…probably very soon going to make sense to just sequence all your DNA.”
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科学美国人60秒:For Halloween, Consider the Chocolate Midge
As you unwrap a Halloween candy or two, it's worth paying your respects to the real reason for many of the treats: a tiny fly whose trick is to make chocolate possible.
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科学美国人60秒:Dolphins Dumb Down Calls to Compete with Ship Noise
The oceans are getting louder. And coastal areas are some of the noisiest, as in this underwater recording, captured 17 miles off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. <Maryland boat
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科学美国人60秒:Asocial Octopuses Become Cuddly on MDMA
When humans take the drug MDMA—best known as ecstasy—they feel a deeper connection to others—emotionally and physically. Because MDMA affects serotonin, a nervous
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科学美国人60秒:Science News Briefs from around the Globe
Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here’s a short piece from the October 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatche
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科学美国人60秒:Wild Songbirds Can Pick Up New Tunes
Only a few kinds of animals are known to learn their vocalizations from listening to others. Us, of course. Elephants. Bats. Cetaceans—whales and dolphins. Pinnipeds—wa
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科学美国人60秒:Health Care Let Neandertals "Punch above Their Weight"
Health care isn't just a benefit of the modern human age. It goes way back. All the way, even, to the Neandertals.
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"We imagine they would have been cleaning wounds, dressing woun
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