科学美国人60秒 SSS "Textalyzer" Aims at Deadly Distracted Driving

Textalyzer Aims at Deadly Distracted Driving 能够测试驾驶时是否分心的神器 Fifty years ago, British inventors made and marketed the first electronic breathalyzer. The alcohol gauge has become standard issue for U.S. law enforcement crack

科学美国人60秒 SSS Social Media Sites Can Profile Your Contacts

Social Media Sites Can Profile Your Contacts 允许读取联系人等于出卖朋友？ When you install an app on your smartphone, youre often asked whether youd like to share your list of contacts with that app. That might be a convenient way to co

科学美国人60秒 SSS Solar Eclipse in 1097 May Be Rock Carving Subject

Solar Eclipse in 1097 May Be Rock Carving Subject 古代雕刻记载天文景观 More than 900 years ago, the Pueblo people were thriving in New Mexicos Chaco Canyon. While they were there, the region experienced what the whole country is looking for

科学美国人60秒 SSS Seeing One Solar Eclipse May Not Be Enough

Seeing One Solar Eclipse May Not Be Enough 观看日全食会上瘾？8.21.日全食来啦！ I expected to have this interesting intellectual experience, and instead it was just completely visceral. 我很期待这种有趣的科学体验，而且这完

科学美国人60秒 SSS A Fruitful Experiment in Land Conservation

A Fruitful Experiment in Land Conservation 橘子皮的神奇作用 In the fight to conserve tropical rainforests, here's a tool you don't often hear about: orange peels. Specifically, 12,000 tons of them, dumped on the land. You don't usually associ

科学美国人60秒 SSS This Cell Phone Needs No Battery

This Cell Phone Needs No Battery 不用电池的新型手机？ A dying battery is a huge annoyance for cell phone users. But for engineers? It's inspiration. Can we design a smartphone which can make a phone call and have a conversation without the

科学美国人60秒 SSS No Bull: Lizards Flee When They See Red

No Bull: Lizards Flee When They See Red 原来蜥蜴也怕红 You wouldn't think studying lizards is a particularly dangerous profession. Until, that is, sheriffs approach you with their guns drawn. We get the cops called on us sometimes. 你一定不认

科学美国人60秒 SSS Pollinators Shape Plants to Their Preference

Pollinators Shape Plants to Their Preference我的进化来自你的偏好 Honeybees are the charismatic microfauna of the pollination world. But flies, bumblebees, butterflies and mothsthey all pollinate, too. With varying degrees of success. The po

科学美国人60秒 SSS African Penguins Pulled into an Ecological Trap

African Penguins Pulled into an Ecological Trap生态陷阱迷惑了可爱的企鹅 Over millions of years, penguins have evolved a keen sense of where to find food. Once theyre old enough, they set off from the shores on which they hatched for the f

科学美国人60秒 SSS Poverty Shaves Years off Life

Poverty Shaves Years off Life贫穷是疾病的一大根源 Back in 2011 member countries of the World Health Organization, the WHO, came up with a plan to cut mortality from noncommunicable diseases 25 percent by the year 2025. The program was thus

科学美国人60秒 SSS Teachers' Racial Biases Have Different Effects for High Versus Low Performers

Teachers' Racial Biases Have Different Effects for High Versus Low Performers平等对待每一个学生 The ways teachers view their students can influence how teachers teach. Which affects how and what students learn. Now a study finds that a teach

科学美国人60秒 SSS Bring Bronx Zoo To Your Living Room

Bring Bronx Zoo To Your Living Room将动物园带进卧室 There are a lot of misconceptions about what zoos and aquariums are today in the 21st century. 21世纪，人们对动物园和水族馆存在很多误解。 Jim Breheny, Director of the Bro

科学美国人60秒 SSS UV Rays Strip Small Galaxies of Star Stuff

UV Rays Strip Small Galaxies of Star Stuff紫外线辐射会阻止小星系形成 The sun spews out ultraviolet radiationthat's why you put on sunscreen. But the sun isn't the only UV-producing celestial body. Stars and supermassive black holes produ

科学美国人60秒 SSS Aggressed-Upon Monkeys Take Revenge on Aggressor's Cronies

Aggressed-Upon Monkeys Take Revenge on Aggressor's Cronies猴子的报复 Dont mess with a monkey. Because if you do, hes might take revengeon your family and friends. Thats according to a study of Japanese macaques, which shows that monkeys keep tra

科学美国人60秒 SSS Knot Not Easy to Knot

Of the many puzzles mathematicians ponder, one is new ways to tie knots. There are more than six billion different types of knots that have been tabulated by mathematicians. Six billion. David Leigh, a chemist at the University of Manchester in the U

科学美国人60秒 SSS High-Sugar Diet Makes Flies Drop Like...Flies

I dont believe, in all my years, I have ever seen a fruit fly I would consider obese. But, thanks to the wonders of modern science, thats all about to change. Because a team of researchers from Cold Spring Harbor laboratory has produced the first fli

科学美国人60秒 SSS Ants Use Celestial Cues to Travel in Reverse

Next time you need directions, maybe ask an ant. Because these clever little critters are such masters of navigation that some can find their way home whether theyre walking forward, backward, or sideways. Thats according to a study in the journal Cu

科学美国人60秒 SSS Umbrellas Plus Sunscreen Best Bet to Beat Burns

Next time you need directions, maybe ask an ant. Because these clever little critters are such masters of navigation that some can find their way home whether theyre walking forward, backward, or sideways. Thats according to a study in the journal Cu

科学美国人60秒 SSS LSD's Long, Strange Trip Explained

LSD is one of the most potent hallucinogenic drugsactive at just around 100 microgramsa miniscule amount. That fact has fascinated pharmacologists for decades. Namely, how can it have such long-lasting effects12 hours or moreat such tiny doses? To fi

科学美国人60秒 SSS A Humble Fish with a Colorful Edge

Hundreds of millions of years ago a humble fish swam in the lakes and rivers of the supercontinent Gondwana. Eventually Gondwana broke apart, becoming the continents we know today. And the descendants of that fish, now called cichlids, continue to sw