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科学美国人60秒:The Fastball Gets Its Scientific Due in a New Documentary
The baseball season is almost here. To get you up to speed, the excellent new documentary Fastball opens today in select theaters.
科学美国人2016-03-31
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科学美国人60秒:Quasar Winds Clock In at a Fifth of Light Speed
Black holes are not all created equal. There are the regular star-sized ones. And then the supermassive black holes. Which really live up to their name. "So the Milky Way has a sup
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科学美国人60秒:The Fastball Gets Its Scientific Due in New Documentary
The baseball season is almost here. To get you up to speed, the excellent new documentary Fastball opens today in select theaters.Fastball is all about, you guessed it, the heater,
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科学美国人60秒:Garbage Pickings Get Storks to Stop Migrating
Humans aren’t the only creatures who love junk food—many animals are known to enjoy sifting through our garbage to find edible treats. And now we learn that some storks
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科学美国人60秒:Cuba–U.S. Thaw Should Ease Scientific Collaborations
President Obama arrived in Cuba March 20th, the first visit by a U.S. leader since Calvin Coolidge in1928. Last spring I spoke to Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology researcher Eduar
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科学美国人60秒:African Park Comeback Offers Ecological Optimism
“Gorongosa, which was a jewel of Southern Africa…had great populations of lions, elephants, hippos, buffalo, etcetera. Absolutely decimated. So if you went there in th
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科学美国人60秒:Bring a Musician to Untangle Cocktail Party Din
The 2016 presidential candidates have subjected voters nationwide to a cognitive challenge: can you untangle what one candidate is saying while the others talk over him? [Political
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科学美国人60秒:Our Noise Bothers Overlooked Seafloor Critters
Stick your head underwater and you’ll quickly discover that the ocean has a soundtrack. Waves crash, whales sing, and occasionally, an underwater earthquake rumbles from the
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科学美国人60秒:Eavesdrop on Echolocation to Count Bats
"What you're listening to is what I like to call the beautiful chaos of the bat echolocation stream." Laura Kloepper, a bioacoustician at Saint Mary's College in Indiana. "So you
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科学美国人60秒:Underground Eruptions Could Cause Quakes Months Later
2002 was a tough year for the people who live along the shores of Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It started off with a bang, when the Nyiragongo volcano erupted
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科学美国人60秒:Raw Stone Age Meals Got Tenderizing Treatment
Chimpanzees spend about half their day chewing. "And for context, think about how much time a day you spend chewing." Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at
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科学美国人60秒:Fear of Spiders Makes Them Look Bigger
"Both of us were in the lab when we just saw a spider, and I'm really afraid of them. So I started to scream for her to come and pick it up because she's not afraid of them.&rdqu
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科学美国人60秒:Pro Baseball Player Tech Avatars Could Be a Hit
Hall of Famer Ted Williams once famously commented that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports. Although Williams—a .344 career hitter—made it look eas
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科学美国人60秒:This Dragonfly Outmigrates Monarchs
Monarch butterflies are famous for their long haul to Mexico—a migration of more than 2,500 miles. But far more impressive is a species of dragonfly, Pantala flavescens. It'
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科学美国人60秒:Gators Guard Birds That Nest Nearby
Florida’s Everglades are home to lots of large wading birds, like egrets and herons. But the ‘Glades also have lots of raccoons and possums. For the mammals, the birds&
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科学美国人60秒:Space "Treasure Map" Guides E.T. Search
Carl Sagan once referred to our home planet as [CLIP: "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."] And that poetic description holds true for a lot of exoplanets, too. In fact one of
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科学美国人60秒:Milgram's Conformity Experiment Revisited in Lab and on Stage
“It’s not surprising that in these studies people conformed, because…they’re being pulled in two directions, it’s authority, they might get in troubl
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科学美国人60秒:Bats Beat Ebola with Hypervigilant Immunity
When a virus invades your cells, it kicks your immune machinery into motion. The first responders are signaling proteins, called interferons. "And they trigger downstream immune re
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科学美国人60秒:Cutting Carbon Pollution Could Save Health Care $
The Paris Climate Agreement pledges to limit global temperature rise to "well below 2 degrees Celsius." "But really nobody—and certainly not the United States—has laid
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科学美国人60秒:Billion Sun–Bright Events Leave Radio Wave Clues
Radio waves are invisible to our eyes. But if you could see them, the sky would dance with random tiny flashes. Thousands of what are called “fast radio bursts” are est
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科学美国人60秒:Cyber Thieves Hold Hospital's Data for Ransom
What do you do when hackers kidnap your data and hold it for ransom? Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California recently faced that question. The hospital’s manageme
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科学美国人60秒:Ball Really Looks Bigger to Better Hitters
“Take this quote from Mickey Mantle. After hitting this monstrous home run, he said he couldn’t really explain it, he just saw the ball as big a grapefruit.”Jessi
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科学美国人60秒:HPV Vaccine Needs to Reach Boys, Too
“Human papillomavirus, or HPV, now causes the majority of tonsillar cancers in the United States and many western nations. And the risk of these cancers has been increasing.&
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科学美国人60秒:Mantis Shrimp Shells May Inspire Next-Generation Computer Chips
Mantis shrimp are well known for their powerful punch… strong enough to crack aquarium glass. But they also have incredible technicolor vision. "They can see in 12 different
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科学美国人60秒:Opioid Epidemic Gets Treatment Prescription
“We’ve been dealing with an epidemic in the United States related to opioids.”Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the Natio
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