The Real Bigfoot 真的有大脚怪吗？ Everybody has heard of Bigfoot, the gigantic ape-like creature that supposedly haunts the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Plenty of enthusiasts believe Bigfoot is real, though there isnt any evidence that w...
Variety in Diet 饮食多样化 D: Oh! Good to have buffet, I love buffets. I like to get a taste of lot of different things. I like to nibble a little of this, and a little of that. Who wants to eat a mass of potatoes when you can also have chicken,...
Music and Verbal Memory 音乐和非文字记忆 Even if you haven't touched a piano in years, if you suffered through music lessons as a kid you may have benefited from those lessons in ways you wouldn't expect. When you train on a musical instrumen...
What's a Fly Doing in Antarctica? 南极有苍蝇？ Sometimes the biggest finds are the smallest finds. Researchers examining a segment of siltstone taken from ground along the Beardmore glacier in Antarctica found something unexpected. They found a...
Ant Attack! 蚂蚁来袭！ Imagine this. Youre coming home to your gated community after a long day of work. As you stop to show the guard your ID, a mugger jumps out from behind a bush and grabs you by the mouth. 想象一下这样的情景：结束了...
Drought 干旱 For those of us lucky enough to always have enough food and water, it may be hard to imagine living through a drought. A drought occurs when for a variety of reasons, usually including a lack of rainfall and warm temperatures. Soil moi...
What Makes Hybrid Cars So Efficient? 最快的车是什么？ Don :Hybrid cars are known as hybrids because they use an electric motor to augment the performance of a small, efficient gasoline engine. But this isnt the only reason hybrids are more ef...
Fatherless Honeybees 没有父亲的蜜蜂 How male honeybees can be without fathers? The reason lies in whats called a haploidiploid system of sex determination. Approximately one-fifth of the animal kingdom, including ants and wasps, use this syste...
One Step Closer to Living Longer 人类接近长寿的又一步 D: You know, when I watch futuristic sci-fi movies, I notice everyone has a normal aging pattern. You don't encounter people who just having been107 years old. That's probably a mistake....
Nature's Helicopters 自然界的直升机 Most birds flap their wings up and down, but hummingbirds move their wings in a figure-eight pattern. With each flap they twist their wings one-hundred-eighty degrees so that they create a downward thrust on...
