School are well known reservoir of contagion, where students share all sorts of communicable conditions, coughs, cold, flu, you name it. But gems are the only things kids can catch from their friends. If they are lucky, they could come down with 4.0....
Too little salt makes for(导致) a bland(温和的；乏味的) meal. But too much is offensively briny(海水的；咸的). Now, scientists have discovered why too much tastes bad. The work is in journal Nature. As the previous podcast noted, the c...
Taste may be the least understood of our five senses, even basic questions like where the taste bugs come from remain mysterious until now. In the study published in the journal Stem Cell, scientists identified the lose of parental cell that gives ri...
A lethal dose cyanide of can take your life in minutes. It kills by blocking your cells used of oxygen, suffocating the body and brain. There are FDA approved antidote, but they are served via intravenous injection. Just imagine paramedics chucking u...
Adult ants communicate with pheromones, touch and even sound. Now researchers have discovered that developing ants called pupae have their own distinctive calls, which identify their social status within the colony. This finding is in the journal Cur...
Clouds, they are fluffy, white and full of mystery. Although scientist may have better handle on clouds, even they don't know at all. Because the new study can show that atmosphere gases can help clouds form in a way no one had ever considered. That'...
You are a bird, you are a plane, you are a super hero. sort of. because a study finds that experience in super power and virtual environment can turn you to a dukitor in real life. the work is in the journal plus one. 60 men and women flew over a vir...
This is scientific American sixty seconds science, I'm Christopher Taliyatah. Got a minute？ When you think of an password for yet another online account, longer is better. Right? Well, it's true if your password is just strings and radoms of number...
Beneath its adorable exterior is your cat hiding the heart of killer.Researchers now estimated that each year domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals in the United States alone.The report is in Nature Communications.We already knew that dome...
When you think about dog food, you probably picture more meet than potato. But a new study finds that unlike wolves, dog have genes allow them to digest starch. That evolutionary adaptation may help fuel domestication. The report is in the journal na...
