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科学美国人60秒:Ancient Clan War Explains Genetic Diversity Drop
Men inherit their Y chromosomes from their fathers. And they get an almost exact copy, other than a few mutations. Meaning very little changes about the Y chromosome from generatio
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科学美国人60秒:Saying "This May Hurt" May Make It Worse
Getting a vaccine can be a painful experience, especially when you’re a kid. But getting told the shot might “hurt a bit” could actually make it worse.
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科学美国人60秒:Mongooses Gift Grooming for Guard Duty
If I buy you lunch today, chances are you'll pick up the tab next time. We humans reciprocate a lot… days, weeks or even months later. And other primates do it too. Monkeys
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科学美国人60秒:Computers Go Head-to-Head with Humans on Face Recognition
Google and Facebook both do a nice job identifying your friends in photos—a testament to how good machines have gotten at studying human faces. But how well would an algorith
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科学美国人60秒:Some Trees Beat Heat with Sweat
Here’s a short piece from the May 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section we call Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine:
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科学美国人60秒:Pinnipeds Don't Appreciate Biped Disturbance
Cabo Polonio is a small seaside village on Uruguay's Atlantic coast. The permanent, year-round population is just 95 people living in around 50 homes. Another 350 homes are used b
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科学美国人60秒:Computers Predict Pop Chart Success
Many parents are no doubt familiar with their teenagers' musical tastes. Very few are probably inspired enough to launch an experiment into them.
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科学美国人60秒:Doc's YA Novel Treats Life-and-Death Issues
“My book is called Water in May. It’s about a 15-year-old Dominican-American living in Washington Heights named Mari Pujols. And she wants more than anything else to ha
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科学美国人60秒:Google's AI Assistant Does Your Talk Tasks
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The person making the haircut appointment for her boss? She’s not a person.
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科学美国人60秒:Great Ape Makes Good Doc
Here’s a short piece from the May 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section we call Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine:
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科学美国人60秒:Stool-Pigeon Poop Reveals Bird-Racing Fouls
When he worked in a pharmacy in Portugal, Fernando Moreira often encountered people who stopped by for performance-enhancing drugs…for their racing pigeons. "Yes, I saw it v
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科学美国人60秒:Radar Scans Detail North Korean Nukes
North Korea has promised to close its underground nuclear test site at Mount Mantap later this month. Shortly thereafter, President Trump is set to meet North Korea's leader Kim J
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科学美国人60秒:Hunting Rules Have Changed Mama Bear Care
In North America, many critters commonly encountered today—like wild turkeys or white-tailed deer—were brought back from near oblivion through conservation efforts led
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科学美国人60秒:Jupiter and Venus Squeeze Earth's Orbit
The sun exerts an enormous and obvious influence on the Earth, with its gravity and light. But other bodies also have a small say in our affairs.
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科学美国人60秒:Mars Lander Will Peer Inside the Red Planet
“Absolutely spectacular mission…and it’s not a rover, it’s a lander. It’s designed to land and deploy several instruments.”
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科学美国人60秒:Plants Can Sense Animal Attack Coming
Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here’s a short piece from the May 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section we call Advances: Dispatches f
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科学美国人60秒:Archaeologist Makes a Case for Seafaring Neandertals
The more we learn about Neandertals, the more like us they become. They made jewelry, from shells and eagle talons. They probably painted cave art. They may have buried their dead
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科学美国人60秒:Archaeologist Makes Case for Seafaring Neanderthals
The more we learn about Neanderthals, the more like us they become. They made jewelry, from shells and eagle talons. They probably painted cave art. They may have buried their dead
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科学美国人60秒:Africa: Future Worldwide Science Hub
“In a couple of decades from now Africa is going to be the powerhouse of human capital globally—the youngest continent in terms of young demography.”
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科学美国人60秒:Culture Shapes Kids' Views of Nature
Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here’s a short piece from the April issue of the magazine, in the section we call Advances: Dispatches from
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科学美国人60秒:Healthful Eating Requires Supermarket Smarts
“Labeling is much better than it used to be.”
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Marian Burros, retired New York Times food columnist.
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科学美国人60秒:Bill Gates Announces a Universal Flu Vaccine Effort
“Almost all the speeches I give on global health are about the incredible progress and exciting new tools that are helping the world reduce child mortality and tackle infecti
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科学美国人60秒:Bad Audio Can Hurt a Scientist's Credibility
In the era of fake news it's worth remembering: the medium is the message. For example: psychological studies have shown that text that's hard to read is more likely to be deemed
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科学美国人60秒:Bill Gates Announces Universal Flu Vaccine Effort
“Almost all the speeches I give on global health are about the incredible progress and exciting new tools that are helping the world reduce child mortality and tackle infecti
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科学美国人60秒:Drumming Beats Speech for Distant Communication
Before the internet or cell phones, radio or telegraph, long-distance communication meant riders on horseback, carrier pigeons or semaphore. But various cultures also developed way
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