The baseball season is almost here. To get you up to speed, the excellent new documentary Fastball opens today in select theaters. 棒球季即将来临。为了提升你的速度,优秀的新纪录片《快球》今日将会在部分影院上映。...
A good mood may put a spring in your step. But the opposite can work too: purposefully putting a spring in your step can improve your mood. Thats the finding from a study in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 好心情可能会...
Josh Fischman: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. This is your fast-track update on the COVID pandemic. We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease. We...
Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. Some words imitate the sounds made by the things they describe, like buzz or hiss or zip. For you language lovers, thats called onomatopoeia. But what if the the way a wor...
Urban gentrification is thought to happen like this: artists move into lower income neighborhoods, looking for cheap gallery and living space. So they move into these neighborhoods, and they make these neighborhoods really pleasant to live in. They k...
Exposure to the unusual, the jarring, the culturally shocking may be beneficial for your cognitive reasoningand your waistline. 接触与众不同、不和谐文化方面的冲击可能会有益于认知推理甚至你的腰围。 Thats according to...
Gulls. You may have noticed that gulls can be pretty aggressive when it comes to grabbing food. But that behavior is more intense than you may know. Some kelp gulls snack on baby whales. Live baby whales. 海鸥!你可能已经注意到,海鸥在吃食...
Humans aren't the only species that forms friendships. Lots of animals prefer to spend their time only with certain individuals. 人类并不是唯一一种会产成友谊的物种。有很多动物都喜欢只跟特定的某些伙伴在一起消磨时...
We all know money cant buy happiness. But according to a recent study, there may be a loophole. A team of researchers finds that shelling out for services that save time can bring greater feelings of life satisfaction than, say, simply buying more st...
That, of course, is the sound of the Himalayan forest thrush. And that sound was a clue to field researchers that they might have a new species of bird on their hands. Even though it was in the bush. You know what I mean. 这是喜马拉雅深林中画...