2021-02-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the March 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from

2021-02-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Bob Hirshon.
Getting a handle on how COVID-19 is spreading across the country is difficult, because current models are based

2021-02-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Epidemiologists have long known that socially connected individuals like friends, family and co-workers

2021-02-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
Here in New York the coronavirus cases are exploding—we're on the steep part of the curve. You'

2021-02-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Picture a small kangaroo. You're basically seeing something very much like the Australian marsupial

2021-02-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Annie Sneed.
Plastic: It's all over the ocean. And for sea turtles, it's a killer. At least 1,000 die every ye

2021-02-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Adam Levy.
Open up a clam, and you might see the making of a tasty snack. You probably wouldn't expect to find the

2021-02-05 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Annie Sneed.
(CLIP: Snapping shrimp sound)
Rice Krispies? Rain hitting a tin roof? Bacon frying? How about noisy crea

2021-02-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Large oceangoing vessels like oil tankers and cruise ships produce noise that travels long distances und

2021-02-01 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
If you watch nature documentaries, it's easy to come away wi

2021-02-01 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Beethoven is a giant of classical music. And the most influential, too—at least, when it come

2021-01-27 所属栏目:科学美国人

Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the February 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches f

2021-01-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Airplanes account for about 3 percent of the climate-altering ca

2021-01-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
Every Thoroughbred horse alive today is descended from three stallions and a larger selecti

2021-01-20 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Around 115 miles east of Medellín, in Colombia, sits the enormous hacienda built by the drug lord Pabl

2021-01-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Thousands of years ago, in what's now the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Aboriginal artists

2021-01-15 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Near the end of the 18th century, the industrial revolution began to transform Great Britain. Machines r

2021-01-14 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
They say that Marie Antoinette's hair turned white the night before she lost her head to the guillot

2021-01-12 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
Making a cup of coffee isn't rocket science. But a new study shows that a background in math and ana

2021-01-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Dogs began to diverge from wolves tens of thousands of years ago, when their wild ancestors started inte

2021-01-07 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Around 100,000 years ago, in what is now Italy, our Neandertal cousins waded out into the shallow coasta

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
"It came to our attention a few years ago that there were fraudulent whiskeys on the market."
Gordon Coo

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
If you've ever been on a fishing boat, you've probably seen flocks of birds following

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the January 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the

2020-12-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
"That's right, woodchuck-chuckers. It's Groundhog Day! Get up and chuck that hog out there!"
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