This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. If you drive in a city, you've no doubt experienced the frustration of circling block after block, cruising for parking. But scientists who study that phenomenon have a soluti...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. 'Tis the season...for overeating! But it's not just your lack of willpower or the omnipresent holiday treats. No, you can lay some of the blame on ghrelin. Because a new study shows tha...
This is Scientific American 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman. One of the most impressive scenes in the world of birds is a peacock displaying its impressive, iridescent feathers, technically known as its train. While the female peahen l???ooks on...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. You're at a party and you suddenly feel someone looking at you. But how can it be possible to feel another person's gaze? I mean, it's not like people shoot actual beams out of their ey...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. There's a whole genre of music called relaxation music. (CLIP: Solstice Dawn) It's also called Meditative Binaural Music, because it includes sounds recorded in stereo, and so...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Exercise builds muscle. But it also strengthens bones. Exactly how exercise boosts bone strength is a matter of debate and a subject of scientific scrutiny. Now, a new study in mice sho...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Jason Goldman. In the jungle, home is anywhere you can raise your babies while trying not to get gobbled up by somebody else. Take a tiny creature from Brazil whose name is longer than it is: the Bah...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Everyone knows what it's like to itch. And the sensation can drive you mad. Or, if you're Yan-Gang Sun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it can drive you to explore how the brain tell...
加入《蓝色星球2》推特直播 This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Blue Planet II is a critically acclaimed 2017 BBC documentary series about the world's oceans, hosted by the great David Attenborough. And it's now...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Hundreds of millions of years from now, when humans are probably long gone, what sort of geologic record will we l??eave behind for future archaeologists? Plastics, sure? Conc...