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Some Trees Beat Heat with Sweat Heres 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: 这是该杂志2018年5月号的一篇短文,我们称之

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Undersea Recordings Reveal a Whale's Tale One of the drawbacks of researching blue whales is that most of the time you can't see what your study subjects are doing, or how many there areor even, where they are. Satellite tags have revealed some of th

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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries of mechanisms of whats known as autophagy. Break the word down and you get auto and phagy: from the Greek for self, auto, and eating, phagein. So, se

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On June 3rd, a train loaded with highly volatile crude oil derailed just outside the small town of Mosier in Oregons Columbia River Valley. More than 40,000 gallons of crude spilled out of the train. Some burned away in a 14-hour long fire at the sce

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Whales, seals and walruses stay warm in chilly water because they have a thick layer of blubber. We humans rely on something like blubberneoprene rubber wet suitsto spend time in cold water. But the thick versions for really icy water are heavy and u

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As in many other fields, gender bias pervades the sciences. Men score higher starting salaries, have more mentoring, and have better odds of being hired. Studies show theyre also perceived as more competent than women in STEM fields. And new research

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This years Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about the worlds smallest machines. G?ran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, earlier this morning. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Nobel Priz

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Its called the Great Migrationthe journey of some six million African-Americans from the rural south to northern and western cities between 1910 and 1970. The cultural impact of the Great Migration has been well documented. But researchers have also

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to David J. Thouless and the other half to F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitio

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The Greenland High Arctic is a bare, sparse place. Rather than tall trees, it has tundraground hugging vegetationand rugged, Lord-of-the-Rings-style vistas. Well I don't know, it's not exactly New Zealand, but kind of similar landscape. Mikko Tiusane

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Forget cockroaches. Forget Superman. Forget any other tough-as-nails creatures youve ever heard of. The most indestructible multicellular organisms on Earth are undoubtedly tardigradesmicroscopic eight-legged aquatic invertebrates also known as water

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This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute. Champane, do you drink it out the narrow flute or the the broader, more shallow coupe ? You may notice that your perception of the buble wine chaneled gas escaped from

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This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? Tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins each year. It's not just a tragic abuse of the animals, It's bad business. They're basically swimming dollar signs, wh

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? In science, citations are gold. A journal article that gets cited a lot is usually considered a valuable piece of work. Now comes a study claiming that the number of times

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber, got a minute? Were not the only animals that like to knock back the hard stuff. Studies have shown that some mammals seek out food and drink that naturally contains alcohol. And accor

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This is Scientific American 60 second science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute The sounds many animals make are determined by their genesthey don't have to learn them. Humans, on the other hand, have all sorts of languages and accents, stuf

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