2018-10-15 所属栏目:科学美国人

About 1.5 billion people speak English around the world. But for more than 1.1 billion of them, English is their second language—often with a noticeable accent.

“Your

2018-10-12 所属栏目:科学美国人

Just like humans have virtually unique sets of fingerprints, every giraffe has a unique set of spots. Not that those spot patterns really help wildlife biologists identify their st

2018-10-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

“The first thing is that people have to come to grips with the difficulties we face. I think the scientists have and many of the people have, but the governments have to.&rdq

2018-10-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

Ever hear of the pronghorn antelope in the American West? Well, it’s not really an antelope—it’s actually more closely related to giraffes than to true antelopes.

2018-10-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

The Allagash Brewing Company, in Maine, makes a lot of "bottle-conditioned" beers—brews that get their carbonation by fermenting a second time, in the bottle, as yeast belch

2018-10-06 所属栏目:科学美国人

“The main practical application of CPA so far has been in the eye surgery. It was the first one, and I think it is the one that is used by the most people for something pract

2018-10-05 所属栏目:科学美国人

“The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their

2018-10-05 所属栏目:科学美国人

“This year’s prize is harnessing the power of evolution. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to F

2018-10-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

Christine Blasey Ford is a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She reminded anyone listening

2018-10-03 所属栏目:科学美国人

If there's a fifth Indiana Jones movie, Indy might want to use one of the hottest new tools revolutionizing archaeology: LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, which allows archae

2018-09-28 所属栏目:科学美国人

Every year, 20 million tons of salt are dumped on roads and highways across the U.S. to eliminate ice. And airlines spray up to 1,000 gallons of antifreeze on any one plane to de-i

2018-09-26 所属栏目:科学美国人

You probably don't think of scientific or medical instruments as the kind of instruments that actually make music. But now researchers have built a scientific instrument specifica

2018-09-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

You've probably heard the financial advice that a diversified portfolio is better in turbulent times? Well that same wisdom may hold true for our stocks of trees. Because ecologis

2018-09-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

Arrrrr. Today, September 19th, is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

No, seriously, yo ho ho, check the web. Ya know, matey, anyone could be a pirate, all ye needed was a prope

2018-09-20 所属栏目:科学美国人

Sea otters are pretty petite compared to other marine mammals. Which means that, despite their fur coats, they tend to lose heat quickly, and need lots of energy to stay warm."So t

2018-09-19 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 September 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatc

2018-09-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

Homo sapiens are nowhere near the fastest runners in the animal kingdom. But what we lack in speed, we make up for in endurance. And we're specially equipped to go the distance. W

2018-09-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

Homo sapiens are nowhere near the fastest runners in the animal kingdom. But what we lack in speed, we make up for in endurance. And we're specially equipped to go the distance. W

2018-09-14 所属栏目:科学美国人

Climate change means springtime's arriving earlier across North America. But the season's onset isn't changing at the same rate across the nation.

"Spring is not advancing as q

2018-09-13 所属栏目:科学美国人

Interested in studying exotic life forms…maybe even identifying new species? Well, forget about buying a plane ticket. Just take a look in your basement, bathroom, or boudoi

2018-09-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

Last year, astronomers observed two neutron stars collide—a crash transmitted in gravitational waves to detectors here on Earth. Represented in sound, you can hear a small up

2018-09-10 所属栏目:科学美国人

Sharks aren't typically thought of as vegetarians. Or even omnivores. But about 10 years ago, scientists documented a dainty relative of the hammerhead shark, known as a bonnethea

2018-09-07 所属栏目:科学美国人

At about 7:30 P.M. on September 7, 2017, Hurricane Irma reached the Turks and Caicos Islands. By the next morning, the neighborhood called Blue Hill was gone. And on South Caicos I

2018-09-06 所属栏目:科学美国人

Physicists concern themselves with problems that are profound. The origins of the universe, the nature of time, the composition of matter. And then, there’s spaghetti. A past

2018-09-05 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 August 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches