Could Air Conditioners Help Cool the Planet? Air conditioning and fans account for a full 10 percent of the world's electricity usage. Or, put another way: It's a lot of air you pump around.Roland Dittmeyer, a chemical engineer at the Karlsruhe Insti...
U.S. Coral Reefs Do $1.8 Billion of Work Per Year A physics lesson may be the last thing on your mind as you relax at the ocean, but:If you're sitting on a lovely Hawaiian beach with your mai tai and you're looking offshore and you see 20 foot waves...
Penguin Poop Helps Biodiversity Bloom in Antarctica Antarctica is known for its geat expanses of white. And not just snow. If it's fresh it might be white or pinkish. And eventually it all turns brown, muddy brown. Stef Bokhorst is an ecologist at Vr...
Unread Books at Home Still Spark Literacy Habits We know that reading is good for children. And presumably for adults as well. Now, a new study suggests that just being around books has its benefitseven if you dont make a point of reading them a lot....
Kid Climate Educators Open Adult Eyes Avoiding the worst effects of climate change will require action. But its hard to take action when you dont even know theres a problem. Around the world, only half of adults understand that humans are causing cli...
Ancient Whiz Opens Archaeology Window 古代奇才开启考古之窗 A 10,000-year-old archaeological site in central Turkey is helping scientists unlock the regions PEE-historic past. Thats right: the salty residue of ancient urine can reveal how an...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学。我是克里斯托弗因塔利亚塔。 You've probably heard the financial advice that a diversified portfolio is better in turbulent ti...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学。我是克里斯托弗因塔利亚塔。 Sea otters are pretty petite compared to other marine mammals. Which means that, despite their fu...
Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the September 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine. 大家好,我是《科...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学。我是克里斯托弗因塔利亚塔。 Homo sapiens are nowhere near the fastest runners in the animal kingdom. But what we lack in spee...