启用GPS，智能手机里很多应用程序就能助你一臂之力。不过启用之后，那些应用程序到底干了些什么，你清楚吗？ Researchers tracked the activity of 30 popular Android apps and found that half reported info to th...
研究表明，那些社交能力强的团队的要优于仅仅智商高的团队。 Groups of two to five members who interacted with each other best outperformed groups whose individual members had higher intelligence scores. Karen Hopkin reports I...
人的身高很大程度上取决于基因，其他因素如饮食和环境对身高也有所影响。 Analysis of DNA from 180,000 people finds dozens of gene regions associated with height differences, and shows how researchers can analyze traits t...
研究表明，老年人喝酒后会影响行路时避开障碍物的灵活性。 Subjects with an average age of 62 had trouble avoiding an obstacle placed on a treadmill after consuming even small amounts of alcohol. Cynthia Graber reports A signif...
The descendants of longtime urban dwellers show increased genetically driven resistance to tuberculosis, due to evolutionary selection pressure over millennia. Christopher Intagliata reports 城市长久居住民的后代，经过数千年的自然选择...
最新研制一种新的医疗设备，可以利用身体动作来充电。 Novel materials could allow the implantation of flexible, rechargeable batteries that would constantly recharge from the body's own movements--even just breathing. Cynthia Gr...
Subjects varied their estimates of the calorie content of a food depending on the assumed negative or positive healthful qualities of the food item they had previously been shown--with weird consequences. Cynthia Graber reports Dieters may try to est...
人工照明能使会唱歌的鸟儿早上更早的开始唱歌，这可能引起什么样的后果呢？究竟是好，还是不好？ Artificial lighting is making songbirds start singing earlier in the day, with possible consequences for breeding....
现代海盗数量不多，索马里海域的除外，但很多男孩受电影和小说影响仍怀揣着海盗梦。那么，成为一名优秀的海盗船长需要具备哪些条件呢? On this International Talk Like a Pirate Day, one eyewitness a...
What distance a power hitter gains using a lighter corked bat he loses in collision efficiency. But a singles hitter may get solid contact more often with the lighter, illegal bat. Steve Mirsky reports 强力的击球手用软木填塞球棍得到的那...
