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科学美国人60秒:Nice People Have Emptier Wallets
Are you an agreeable person—you know, a nice guy? If so, a logical follow-up might be: how are your finances? And here's why: "Agreeable people have lower savings, they have
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科学美国人60秒:Solar Eclipse Was a Buzzkill for Bees
Last summer's total solar eclipse sliced right through Columbia, Missouri. "It was remarkable. As a biologist I generally reserve that word 'remarkable' for biological phenomena
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科学美国人60秒:Confident Tone Overcomes Accent Distrust
About 1.5 billion people speak English around the world. But for more than 1.1 billion of them, English is their second language—often with a noticeable accent.
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科学美国人60秒:Mom's Genes Make Some Giraffes Hard to Spot
Just like humans have virtually unique sets of fingerprints, every giraffe has a unique set of spots. Not that those spot patterns really help wildlife biologists identify their st
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科学美国人60秒:Economics Nobel Highlights Climate Action Necessity
“The first thing is that people have to come to grips with the difficulties we face. I think the scientists have and many of the people have, but the governments have to.&rdq
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科学美国人60秒:Highway Crossings Protect Migrating Pronghorns—and Motorists
Ever hear of the pronghorn antelope in the American West? Well, it’s not really an antelope—it’s actually more closely related to giraffes than to true antelopes.
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科学美国人60秒:Beer Fermentation Hops Along
The Allagash Brewing Company, in Maine, makes a lot of "bottle-conditioned" beers—brews that get their carbonation by fermenting a second time, in the bottle, as yeast belch
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科学美国人60秒:Nobel in Physics for Controlling Laser Light
“The main practical application of CPA so far has been in the eye surgery. It was the first one, and I think it is the one that is used by the most people for something pract
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科学美国人60秒:Nobel for Helping the Immune System Fight Cancer
“The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their
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科学美国人60秒:Nobel in Chemistry for New and Useful Chemical Entities via Evolutionary Principles
“This year’s prize is harnessing the power of evolution. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to F
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科学美国人60秒:Blasey Ford Spells Out Trauma Memory Formation
Christine Blasey Ford is a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She reminded anyone listening
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科学美国人60秒:Scanning Ancient Civilizations from the Skies
If there's a fifth Indiana Jones movie, Indy might want to use one of the hottest new tools revolutionizing archaeology: LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, which allows archae
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科学美国人60秒:Antifreeze Surface Fights Ice with Ice
Every year, 20 million tons of salt are dumped on roads and highways across the U.S. to eliminate ice. And airlines spray up to 1,000 gallons of antifreeze on any one plane to de-i
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科学美国人60秒:Scale Can Measure Medicine—and Play a Scale, Too
You probably don't think of scientific or medical instruments as the kind of instruments that actually make music. But now researchers have built a scientific instrument specifica
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科学美国人60秒:Diverse Tree Portfolio Weathers Droughts Better
You've probably heard the financial advice that a diversified portfolio is better in turbulent times? Well that same wisdom may hold true for our stocks of trees. Because ecologis
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科学美国人60秒:Pirates Needed Science, Too
Arrrrr. Today, September 19th, is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
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No, seriously, yo ho ho, check the web. Ya know, matey, anyone could be a pirate, all ye needed was a prope -
科学美国人60秒:Sea Otters' Powerful Paw Prey Perception
Sea otters are pretty petite compared to other marine mammals. Which means that, despite their fur coats, they tend to lose heat quickly, and need lots of energy to stay warm."So t
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科学美国人60秒:Science News Briefs from Around the World
Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here’s a short piece from the September 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatc
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科学美国人60秒:Genetic Tweak Gave Early Humans a Leg Up
Homo sapiens are nowhere near the fastest runners in the animal kingdom. But what we lack in speed, we make up for in endurance. And we're specially equipped to go the distance. W
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科学美国人60秒:Genetic Tweak Gave Early Humans Leg Up
Homo sapiens are nowhere near the fastest runners in the animal kingdom. But what we lack in speed, we make up for in endurance. And we're specially equipped to go the distance. W
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科学美国人60秒:Earlier Springs May Mean Mistimed Bird Migrations
Climate change means springtime's arriving earlier across North America. But the season's onset isn't changing at the same rate across the nation.
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科学美国人60秒:Survey the Wildlife of the "Great Indoors"
Interested in studying exotic life forms…maybe even identifying new species? Well, forget about buying a plane ticket. Just take a look in your basement, bathroom, or boudoi
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科学美国人60秒:When Neutron Stars Collide
Last year, astronomers observed two neutron stars collide—a crash transmitted in gravitational waves to detectors here on Earth. Represented in sound, you can hear a small up
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科学美国人60秒:Bonnethead Sharks Are Underwater Lawn Mowers
Sharks aren't typically thought of as vegetarians. Or even omnivores. But about 10 years ago, scientists documented a dainty relative of the hammerhead shark, known as a bonnethea
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科学美国人60秒:Hurricane Is a Natural Selection Experiment
At about 7:30 P.M. on September 7, 2017, Hurricane Irma reached the Turks and Caicos Islands. By the next morning, the neighborhood called Blue Hill was gone. And on South Caicos I
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