This is Scientific American Sixty Seconds Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? When Mexican tetra fish moved into darker caves long ago, they evolved to deal with the dark by becoming albino and going blind. A new research shows that the chang

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Evoking images from the liquid metal and nearly unstoppable Terminator from the movies, BAE Systems has posted concept video footage of a process to create drones of the future. 近日,BAE系统公司发布的一份概念视频展示了未来制造无

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Biologist Jonathan Losos and I have at least one thing in common - we were both blown away by the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's 1989 book Wonderful Life. Gould saw evolution as being all about odd contingencies, acciden

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But even though the insect brain is organized very differently from ours, there are some striking similarities. 虽然昆虫与人类大脑的组成大相径庭,但是仍有很多惊人的相似之处。 For example, most insects have smell detecto

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Dogs have been mans best friend for thousands of years, a source of companionship and loyalty since the Stone Age. 几千年以来,狗狗都是人类最好的朋友,从石器时代开始就是人类忠诚的陪伴。 Now scientists suspect they h

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Science and technology: Panda genetics 科技:熊猫遗传学 Hey dude. Give me six! 嘿,伙计。用六指击个掌吧! Two strange mammals illuminate the process of natural selection. 两种不同的哺乳动物阐明自然选择的过程。

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