Elderly people with loss of executive function--lessening of inhibitions--are more likely to offer useful, but tactless, advice. Christopher Intagliata reports 上了年纪的人失去了决策的作用后自身抑制力的减弱更有可能提出有用...
Moving glaciers can cause erosion on mountains, but the coldest glaciers, frozen in place, protect mountains and allow them to grow taller. Cynthia Graber reports 冰川移动会侵蚀山地（冰川移动通常会导致出现角峰和冰斗谷），但...
Some surgeons making more than $1 million in consulting fees did not disclose that fact in journal articles related to devices on which they consulted. Cynthia Graber reports 一些外科医生可以得到100多万美元的器械咨询费，但是他们...
把两种点心放在一起，结果总是看起来长些的那个更抢手。 Given a choice of two snacks, study subjects picked the one they looked at slightly longer. Christopher Intagliata reports On September 10th we reported that people will p...
Undergrads indicated a willingness to pay a premium for goods they could touch rather than merely look at on a Web page. 对于能接触到而非仅仅在网页上看到的东西，大学生愿意多付一些钱去购买。 Customers Say They'd Pay M...
The first time you visit your boyfriends place, he no doubt tidies up, to give you the illusion that he doesnt live like an animal. Well, animals, too, can use optical illusions to woo a mate. Take the bowerbird. 你第一次去男朋友的家里，他...
In side-by-side plots of strawberries grown organically or conventionally, the organic berries had more vitamin C and the soil was more biologically active. Molly Webster reports 通过对用有机方式培育的草莓和用传统方式培育的草莓进...
An experiment tracking mice for 43 generations finds that progeny of those that initially were more active are spending three times as much time on the training wheel as the progeny of the initially more sedentary mice. Christopher Intagliata reports...
Evidence mounts that ancient Nubian brewers purposely made beer so that it contained a dose of antibiotic tetracycline. Christopher Intagliata reports 有证据表明努比亚的啤酒制造者故意在啤酒中加入抗菌四环素。 In 1980, a sci...
A Web-based experiment in which an idea was planted found greater penetration and more rapid spread of the idea in a dense network of participants with overlaps compared with in a loose network. Cynthia Graber reports 一项基于网络的实验表明，...
