美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-11-15

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science. I am Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? In developed countries, we've mostly eliminated freeloaders like parasitic worms from our guts. But we also have the highest rates of inflammatory bowel disease

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-11-16

Aches and pains getting you down, or maybe they really tick you off. If that's the case, maybe don't look to a placebo to give you any relief. Because a new study shows that sugar pills are less effective for people who are quick to anger. The work a

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-11-19

Feeling listless? Unfulfilled? Looks like life have all over, what could have to show for it? You are not alone. In fact, you might not even be human. Because a new study shows that even apes can experience a mid-life crisis. The work appears in the

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-03

In the last decade scientists have managed to sequence the genomes of everything from bacteria and fruit flies to individual human beings. But often overlooked are the genomic sequences of our food. We know the genomes of apples, bananas, potatoes, w

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-04

Mercury tends to show up in strange places, like swordfish and sharks. Now researchers have detected small amounts of mercury in the fog that bathes the California redwoods, near Santa Cruz. The mercury levels they've measured are in parts per trilli

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-05

Cigarettes are bad for your health. But thats only if you smoke em. If you use them to line your nest, they might actually do you some good. Because birds that decorate their digs with discarded cigarette butts are less bothered by parasites. Thats a

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-07

Who was the better artist, a caveman or Leonardo da Vinci? It turns out that early depictions of four-legged animals walking are more accurate in some ways than modern oneseven those crafted by the Renaissance master. The study is in the journal PLoS

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-10-04

The black mamba is one of the world's most venomous snakesits bite can kill a human in just half an hour. But along with deadly neurotoxins, the black mamba's venom has a special ingredient: a painkiller as potent as morphine. So says a study in the

SSS 2012-06-19

Dogs aren't just man's best friend. Previous studies have shown that kids with dogs are less likely to develop asthma. Now new studies may show how. For those (from) mice it applied was. The work was presented at the meeting of the American Society f

SSS 2012-07-02

The same mathematical models used to study the hunting range of lions have many other applicationsthey describe the flight patterns of honeybees. And now researchers say these math models can help explain the stability of gang territories and pattern

SSS 2012-07-03

Fruit flies are pretty small. But they laugh at a species of fly recently discovered in Thailand. Dubbed Euryplatea nanaknihali, this member of the phorid fly family is less than half a millimeter longa fifth the size of a fruit fly. But before you o

SSS 2012-07-04

yeah,you'd better talk about this thing.Now now now look hero be you.You can give a little pity pig let them out three senses to a wood calls like underprevely children drug.I was reading here just other day when the some were like ball hundred meeti

SSS 2012-07-05

This is scientific American-60 second science,Im Cynthia Graber.This will just take a minute.You talk to a friend and then you talk to a theory on the iphone.I found forty resting rents.Dose your brain function differently when interacting with machi

SSS 2012-07-06

This is scientific American-60 second science,I'm Evelyn Lamb.Got a minute? In our dark of night, he is like one of the newest cosmology discoveries to compound Hubble Telescope.A massive entry galaxy cluster.The air fly covers a feeling normal galxy

SSS 2012-07-10

Here is news that you don't want to hear sitting down. Okay, are you standing up? Cutting down the amount of time spent sitting down might add years to average life expectancy. Xxx as report in the journel BMJ open. Office jobs, long commutes and cat

SSS 2012-07-11

Interesting sound. I would have guessed a Wild West performer was practicing with a bullwhip while also vacuuming. But no. That sound [SOUND] is apparently produced by the aurora borealis, the northern lights. [SOUND] Since 2000 researchers at Finlan

SSS 2012-07-12

The eyes are the windows to the soul. As such they can reveal if someone is lying, right? Cop shows, advice shows, even some organizational training courses hold that if somebody looks up and to the right, theyre probably lying. Up and to the left me

SSS 2012-07-13

Vaccines are desperately needed in the developing world. Even when theyre available and inexpensive, theres still a major problem: most vaccines need to be refrigerated. Reaching the relevant populations often means traveling to areas where electrici

SSS 2012-07-16

This is scientific Americans 60 second science,I'm Cynthia Graber.This will just take a minute.A coal mine can decrease the local environment but a Fungi may indivertantly help cleanup the mine with its own waste products. Researchers worked with the

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-06

Many of us talk with our hands. But some researchers suspect we may listen with our hands, too. Cognitive scientists had subjects listen to spoken sentences, each in the third person and present tense, such as John walks to work. As they listened, th