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科学美国人60秒:Feed Additive Squelches Ruminants' Methane Belches
The global population is now nearly seven and a half billion. And that’s just humans. Because our planet is also home to one-and-a-half-billion cows, another billion sheep, a
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科学美国人60秒:Photos Tagged as Art Linked to Rising Property Prices
Urban gentrification is thought to happen like this: artists move into lower income neighborhoods, looking for cheap gallery and living space. "So they move into these neighborhood
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科学美国人60秒:More Creative Types May Face Concentration Challenges
Ever try to work in a coffee shop, but your concentration gets derailed by all the talking, not to mention the steaming and the pouring? The problem might not be that you’re
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科学美国人60秒:Miley Cyrus and Macaroni Combo Enables Brain-Based ID
In what may be hailed as one of the most significant scientific advances of all time, researchers have discovered a use for Adam Sandler and Brussels sprouts. Because when you look
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科学美国人60秒:Traces of Pharmaceuticals Dwell in Wastewater-Grown Veggies
Here's a way to fight the ongoing drought in California: use more wastewater for irrigation. The state's water board suggested that strategy a few years ago, but so far, of the t
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科学美国人60秒:This Plant Bleeds Nectar to Attract Help
Plants, just like animals, get injured. For plants, it’s often because some herbivore is snacking on them. And, also like animals, plants usually seal those wounds up quickly
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科学美国人60秒:Climbing Bears Help Plants Keep Cool
Picture a brave fireman carrying a pet from a burning building. Now, imagine that global warming is the burning building, a cherry tree is the pet, and a bear is the fireman. You&r
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科学美国人60秒:Lower Your Voice Pitch to Persuade
YouTube is full of videos that promise more power and influence. All you've got to do is: [YouTube montage: "Get a deeper voice… How to have a deep voice… You don'
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科学美国人60秒:This Primate's Calls Obey a Linguistic Law
Communication on Twitter is artificially constrained: 140 characters per tweet, max. So it turns out the more words in a tweet, the shorter each word tends to be—at least acc
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科学美国人60秒:Woodpecker Head Bangs Communicate Info
[Pretty bird song]Some birds produce beautiful songs.[Woodpecker drumming]Woodpeckers are not among them. The most familiar sound they make is when they tap on tree trunks with the
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科学美国人60秒:Gambling Gave Science Some Lucky Breaks
“It’s not just gamblers using science. In many cases, science has benefited enormously from people studying the house.”Mathematician Adam Kucharski. He’s th
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科学美国人60秒:Microbots Get the Lead Out--of Wastewater
Water laced with heavy metals—like the drinking water in Flint, Michigan—can be stripped of contaminants using chemicals, filters, membranes, even electric current. But
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科学美国人60秒:Heat ID'd as Subtle Cause of Rockfalls
The floor of Yosemite Valley is littered with piles of rocks that crumbled off the park’s iconic cliffs. These rockfalls happen all the time, because Yosemite’s granite
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科学美国人60秒:Bearcats Naturally Pass the Popcorn
Chances are you’ve never seen a binturong. It’s a tree-dwelling mammal about the size of a raccoon that’s native to Southeast Asia. But if you’ve ever been
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科学美国人60秒:Transforming Stem Cells into Diabetes Beaters
One of the great promises of stem-cell biology is to use a patient’s own cells as a template to build a real, working organ or tissue in the lab. One prime example: a treatme
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科学美国人60秒:Find Shows Widespread Literacy 2,600 Years Ago in Judah
The Hebrew bible was first written down some 2,600 years ago. And scholars have argued that only a population with sufficiently widespread literacy could have accomplished the task
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科学美国人60秒:Frogs Signal Visually in Noisy Environments
Ask anyone what sound a frog makes and they'll probably say "ribbit." But there’s only one frog that makes that sound: the Pacific chorus frog. It may have become the go-to
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科学美国人60秒:Choir Practice Could Lower Stress in Cancer Patients
This isn't your typical choir practice. And it’s not held in a traditional practice space. These singers are all dealing with cancer, theirs or a loved one’s. "There a
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科学美国人60秒:Crater Bottoms Could Be Cradles of Martian Life
Four billion years ago, our solar system was a very different… very violent place. "This is the time when life was just emerging on our planet." Stephen Mojzsis, a geologist
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科学美国人60秒:Wolves Have Local Howl Accents
"She has this thing where she goes to a movie theater, watching a horror movie and there was a wolf howling in the background.” University of Cambridge zoologist Arik Kershen
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科学美国人60秒:Bird Combines Calls in Specific Order
Humans have always considered themselves special compared with other animals. One reason is the complexity of our language—bounded by unique rules, such as syntax, where we s
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科学美国人60秒:Cellular Circuit Computes with DNA
Our smartphones, tablets, laptops—they all compute things electronically. But, think outside that silicon box for a second: "There's nothing special about electrons and usin
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科学美国人60秒:Lasers Could Hide Earth from Prying Aliens
Lasers are the preferred weapons for interplanetary warfare in countless works of science fiction. But they might actually be better at keeping the peace. Because a new study finds
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科学美国人60秒:Twin Birth Proposed for Colliding Black Holes That Produced Gravitational Waves
The news last month that gravitational waves had been discovered made waves throughout the world of science. The finding, from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observato
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科学美国人60秒:City Birds Outwit Country Counterparts
City dwellers can attest that the animals they share the city with—the pigeons, rats, roaches—can be pretty brazen when they're prowling for a bite. While visiting Bar
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