Torture Interferes with Memory In the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologist Share O'Mara notes that torture can interfere with the brain's memory retrieval apparatus, making it counterproductive to the aim of producing useful informatio

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

You might say blue-green algae are optimists: they put things in the best possible lightliterally. Actually, the organisms arent really algae. Theyre photosynthetic ocean bacteria. And they can fine-tune their photosynthetic apparatus to take advanta

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十一)月

The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator. Its long been thought that some of its hunting prowess was due to a mouth teeming with bacteria. An attack that didnt immediately kill the dragons victimoften a deer, but someti

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Most birds don't have penises. Good, I have your attention. Of course, female birds don't have penises. But, neither do most males. Now researchers have unravel the genetics behind the dispearance of this anatomical apparatus. Their penetrating insig

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Eat Slowly and Breathe Smoothly to Enhance Taste慢慢吃 不着急哦 Ever lose your ability to taste during a cold, because your nose is stuffed up? Thats because the nose is intimately involved with taste. When you chew, volatile flavor compounds

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NASA Scanner Offers Clues To Whale Hearing Researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University have imaged whale skulls in an attempt to determine the effects of sonar on whale hearing. Cynthia Graber reports It really is rocket scienceresearc

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