Some Good News about Corals and Climate Change A nearly two-year-long study of Hawaiian corals suggests some species may be better equipped to handle warmer, more acidic waters than previously believed. 图片1 Christopher Intagliata: Within a few de...
Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop. Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I...
A Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Bones in Italy Rewrites the Local Prehistoric Record New fossils are changing a decades-old story about the species that roamed the Mediterranean 80 million years ago. Emily Schwing: This is Scientific Americans 60 Second...
Researchers Analyzed Folk Music like It Was DNA: They Found Parallels between Life and Art Using software designed to align DNA sequences, scientists cataloged the mutations that arose as folk songs evolved Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific Americans...
Answering an Age-Old Mystery: How Do Birds Actually Fly? Equally surprising is the fact that we still do not know how birds actually stay airborne. This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I'm Emily Schwing. Have you ever looked up to see a ha...
What Is the Shape of This Word? What shape do you see when you hear bouba? What about kiki? It turns out that nonsense words that evoke certain shapes have something to say about the origins of language. Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific Americans 60-...
Tiger Sharks, Tracked over Decades, Are Shifting Their Haunts with Ocean Warming Using a combination of fishing data and satellite tracking, scientists found that the sharks have shifted their range some 250 miles poleward over the past 40 years. 虎鲨...
How Marine Wildlife Can Coexist with Offshore Wind Harnessing the wind to blow back emissions is not without its own impacts, so researchers are developing technologies to coexist with whales and other ocean-dwelling species. This podcast was produce...
Salvador Dali had a peculiar way of refreshing his mindsomething he called slumber with a key. In his 1948 book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, he described how it worked. You must seat yourself in a bony armchair, preferably of Spanish style, he...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学系列,我是克里斯托弗因塔利亚塔。 Air pollution causes millions of premature deaths around the world every year, according...