This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. The time: 300,000 years ago. The scene: a herd of horses, struggling in mud. A short five meters away, a group of early Neandertal hunters, throwing a volley of wooden spears...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. One of the biggest drawbacks to wearing a smartwatch is how often you have to ta?ke it off to charge it. But here's an idea. How about charging it with a power source that's p...
全球科学要闻(2) Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the January 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine. Th...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Annie Sneed. Polar bears and coral reefs are obvious victims of climate change. But a warming world will also challenge many other animals. For example, cod. The fish play a critical role in marine e...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science。 I'm Karen Hopkin. So, I never really thought I'd study penis size, but I sorta s?t???umbled on this topic. Mark Laidre, a biologist at Dartmouth College. Laidre travels to Costa Rica to study hermit...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Satellite imagery, like Google Earth, makes it easy for ecologists halfway around the world to check up on tropical forests see illegal roads and logging, stuff like that. But...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. When it comes to Saturn, it's the rings that render the planet instantly recognizable. But it turns out that Saturn was not always so elaborately adorned. Data from the final orbits o...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Jason Goldman. Trees in cities do measurable good for biodiversity and for human health. They scrub pollution from the air. They provide habitat for wildlife. They make streets look nicer. And they e...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. This weekend, many parts of the worldincluding North Americawill be treated to a total lunar eclipse. So here with your viewing guidehow it happens, what to expect, and when t...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting also has an optical illusion named for it: the Mona Lisa effect. It's the feeling that the subject of a painting is following you with...
