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科学美国人60秒:Obese Dad's Sperm May Influence Offspring's Weight
Just below the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden sits a town called Överkalix. It’s home to only about a thousand people. But those inhabitants were the subjects of a sem
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科学美国人60秒:Pollination Isn't Just for the Bees
The widespread death of honeybees has some farmers fretting: if honeybees disappear, who will pollinate their crops? "Almost any kind of insect you can think of." Margie Mayfield,
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科学美国人60秒:Race Colors New Residents' Views of Local Businesses
A lot of formerly low-income neighborhoods are becoming gentrified. The people moving in bring money—and racial biases. Which contribute to them viewing their new surrounding
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科学美国人60秒:Massive Survey Creates Amazon Tree Census
Some 12 percent of the forests of the Amazon have been lost in recorded history. Another 9 to 28 percent will be gone by 2050. But we have not known which species of trees are taki
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科学美国人60秒:People Pick Familiar Foods Over Favorites
In Marcel Proust’s iconic Remembrance of Things Past, a taste of cake elicits a flood of memories.
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Now a study finds that the stronger your memory of a particular food, the m -
科学美国人60秒:Women Candidates Face Implicit Bias Hurdle
“In general, even those who purport to have very egalitarian view or even feminist views of the world, when they were taking this test, it’s called the Implicit Associa
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科学美国人60秒:Vocal Cords Bioengineered From Starter Cells
“Voice is generated by a complex and beautiful biological system, and this is a system that allows all of us to communicate messages, concepts, and emotions.”Nathan Wel
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科学美国人60秒:Sahara Reveals Remains of Ancient River
“The city of Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm which lasted a whole year. Wiped clean by the wrath of God.” Indiana Jones’s friend Marcus Brody, exp
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科学美国人60秒:Your Brain Can Taste without Your Tongue
Back in ancient times, philosophers like Aristotle were already speculating about the origins of taste, and how the tongue sensed elemental tastes like sweet, bitter, salty and sou
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科学美国人60秒:Urban Food Foraging Looks Fruitful
Foraging for food in urban areas is on the rise. Not dumpster diving. Collecting fruits and herbs.
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Throughout cities, forgotten fruit trees still produce, well, produce. For exampl -
科学美国人60秒:Female Vocalists Are In the (Mouse) House
How do you attract a mate? If you’re a male mouse, you take the Frank Sinatra approach—you sing. Scientists have known about crooning male mice for years. And past expe
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科学美国人60秒:Eat Slowly and Breathe Smoothly to Enhance Taste
Ever lose your ability to taste during a cold, because your nose is stuffed up? That’s because the nose is intimately involved with taste. When you chew, volatile flavor comp
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科学美国人60秒:Little Galaxy Keeps Churning Out Stars
Our galactic home, the Milky Way, is big. Most galaxies are far smaller. And it’s not easy being one of those little galaxies—a big galaxy’s gravity can rob their
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科学美国人60秒:Howler Monkeys Trade Testicles for Decibels
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Howler monkeys. From their Central and South American rainforest home, they produce some of the loudest animal calls in the world. They’re about the siz -
科学美国人60秒:Stone Age Pottery Reveals Signs of Beekeeping
You have bees to thank every time you drizzle some honey into your tea. And the human-honeybee relationship is long-standing. Iconography of honeybees adorns 4400-year-old walls in
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科学美国人60秒:What Makes Sand Dunes Sing
<<Dune sounds>> The sound of supernatural spirits talking? Well, no. But that’s what it sounded like to Marco Polo as he travelled through China's Lop Desert in the 13th cen
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科学美国人60秒:Brain Rhythms Sync to Musical Beat
While listening to music, you might find yourself tapping your foot or bobbing your head to the beat. What you might not have expected is that as you listen to your favorite tune,
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科学美国人60秒:Teaching Machines to Learn on Their Own
Welcome to Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on November 10th, 2015. I’m Steve Mirsky. A short episode today. For which I’ll turn it over now to Scientif
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科学美国人60秒:Brain Responds To Driving Routes Repeatedly
From the backseat of a cab, the moves a driver makes may at times seem, let’s say, daring. In fact, cabbies may actually be better, more agile drivers than the rest of us. Be
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科学美国人60秒:Arctic Marine Mammals Swim Up to the Microphone
"My colleagues and I always joke that one of the Jacques Cousteau movies starts out with something like 'the ocean is a silent place.'" [Le Monde Du Silence clip: "Le monde du si
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科学美国人60秒:Decoy Mating Call Battles Citrus Pest
Ten years ago, a bacterial disease began to eat away at the Florida citrus crop. It's called huanglongbing, or citrus greening, and it causes misshapen, bitter green fruits and, e
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科学美国人60秒:Methane Plumes Bubbling Along Northwest Coast
The Northwest is famous for its microbrews. But the region’s bubbles aren’t just for beer. Scientists have found plumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane bubbling up
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科学美国人60秒:Cultural Goofs Gear Up Gray Matter
Exposure to the unusual, the jarring, the culturally shocking may be beneficial for your cognitive reasoning—and your waistline.
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That’s according to a study in the jour -
科学美国人60秒:Political and Industry Leaders Make a Case for Basic Research
“The message has to be told to Congressmen, the message of the importance of investing in basic research.” Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president at Microsoft Researc
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科学美国人60秒:Whale Poop Drives Global Nutrient Cycling
The world's oceans were once home to 10 times as many whales… before the Captain Ahabs of the world came round. Hunting hit big species the hardest, wiping out 99 percent o
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