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科学美国人60秒:Sheep's Face-Reading Skills Stand Out from the Flock
Here’s one of the stranger celebrity sightings out there: Researchers have confirmed that sheep can recognize the actors Emma Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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科学美国人60秒:Nearby Exoplanets Invigorate the Search for E.T.
In the last two years, astronomers have found seven exoplanets around the star TRAPPIST-1, only 40 light-years away. As well as a planet called Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centaur
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科学美国人60秒:Bison Comeback Story Has a Bronx Accent
Today, November 4, is National Bison Day—celebrating the animal that last year Congress and the President designated as the official National Mammal of the United States. For
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科学美国人60秒:Nearby Exoplanets Invigorate Search for E.T.
In the last two years, astronomers have found seven exoplanets around the star TRAPPIST-1, only 40 light-years away. As well as a planet called Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centaur
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科学美国人60秒:Bison Comeback Story Has Bronx Accent
Today, November 4, is National Bison Day—celebrating the animal that last year Congress and the President designated as the official National Mammal of the United States. For
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科学美国人60秒:Mammoth Remains Seem Mostly Male
Woolly mammoths once ruled the northern reaches of our planet—roaming from Portugal to Siberia, and beyond to Alaska, Canada and the American midwest. And the massive beasts
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科学美国人60秒:Physics Phenomenon Reveals a Pyramid's Mystery
For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid, or Khufu's Pyramid, has kept watch over the Egyptian desert. In that time, it's suffered the indignities of tomb raiders and gunpowder-toting
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科学美国人60秒:A Moth with a Potent Cocktail of Poison
Meet the wood tiger moth. Its bright yellow, red, or orange scales send a warning to potential predators.
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科学美国人60秒:Drought News Might Help Cut Water Waste
California's most recent drought - which officially ended this spring - made national, even international news. <<NEWS MONTAGE: "We're in an historic drought / The driest on reco
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科学美国人60秒:Smog Casts a Shadow on China's Solar Farms
China is notorious for its heavy smog. "It's incredibly bad." Denise Mauzerall, an atmospheric scientist at Princeton. "The air pollution in eastern China can be so bad you can't
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科学美国人60秒:Dogs Bow to Wolves as Cooperators
If you need help herding some sheep or retrieving a stick, you can count on your canine companion. Because dogs always seem to be keen on lending a paw. But only if their partner i
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科学美国人60秒:California Gun Injuries Spike after Nevada Gun Shows
There are thousands of gun shows in the U.S. each year—swap meet–type gatherings where the sellers' tables are covered in guns, ammunition, accessories, books.
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科学美国人60秒:Mosquitoes to Other Flying Insects: Do You Even Generate Lift?
Sucking blood is risky business. At least for the female mosquitoes that need those nutrients to nurture their developing eggs. Not only do these bugs have to find a suitable blood
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科学美国人60秒:Keep Your Wi-Fi off KRACK
It seems every week we find out that someone broke into a big company’s databases—like the recent Equifax data breach—and made off with millions of credit card nu
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科学美国人60秒:Ships at Sea Stoke Lightning Strikes
When lightning sparks across the sky, it sends out low-frequency radio waves that researchers can use to determine its location. Recently, scientists were looking over a map of lig
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科学美国人60秒:Gamers Wanted to Attack Food Toxin
Aflatoxins. They’re produced by funguses that infect crops. And they can cause liver cancer, immune damage and other health problems. Rare outbreaks related to peanuts or cor
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科学美国人60秒:Even Jellyfish Need a Nap
Humans are hardly alone in their need for sleep—as any cat owner knows. But what about other, very different animals?
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科学美国人60秒:Squirrels Chunk Their Buried Treasure
We humans sometimes use a memory technique called chunking. For example, with phone numbers we usually remember the three-digit chunk and the four-digit chunk. Two items instead of
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科学美国人60秒:Cougar Calls Get Big Bear Reactions
New technology is putting the focus on rarely witnessed aggression between two of the fiercest predators in North America. For the last few decades, populations of cougars and bear
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科学美国人60秒:Biometric Identifies You in a Heartbeat
Smartphones can already verify your identity by scanning your fingerprint or your face. But there’s something inside you that’s also unique proof that you’re you.
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科学美国人60秒:When We Fly to Mars, Microbes Will, Too
A humid bathroom is the perfect habitat for mold. But there are ways to avoid it. "We can just open the window and let some fresh air in!" Not so easy on a space station though, as
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科学美国人60秒:Nobel in Chemistry for Seeing Biomolecules in Action
“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson…for deve
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科学美国人60秒:Nobel in Physics for Detecting Gravitational Waves
“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Rainer Weiss and the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Ki
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科学美国人60秒:Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for Our Inner Clocks
“The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2017
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科学美国人60秒:Electric Eels Increase Shock by Leaving Water
In the 1800s, renowned explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt observed a bizarre incident in the Amazon: he saw electric eels leaping into the air and shocking two horses.
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