This is Scientific American 60-second Science, I'm Jim Daley. 这里是科学美国人60秒科学系列，我是吉姆戴利。 Almost any cat owner will testify to the felines' apparent indifference to humans when we call their names. But according...
Invisible Killers Hitchhike on Native Plant Seedlings When wildfires rip through a landscape, firefighters have the firstand most immediatejob. But then, that burned moonscape often passes into the hands of restoration ecologists, who yank out invasi...
Fight-or-Flight Nerves Make Mice Go Gray They say that Marie Antoinettes hair turned white the night before she lost her head to the guillotine. But can stress really have such a dramatic effect on hair color? A new study in mice concludes that it ca...
Industrial Revolution Pollution Found in Himalayan Glacier Near the end of the 18th century, the industrial revolution began to transform Great Britain. Machines replaced hand tools, factories sprouted up in cities and towns, and a sharp uptick in co...
Fingering Fake Whiskeys with Isotopes It came to our attention a few years ago that there were fraudulent whiskeys on the market.Gordon Cook of the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center. 几年前，市场上出现了假的威士忌，这...
Having an Albatross around Your Boat 若有一只信天翁围着你的船 If youve ever been on a fishing boat, youve probably seen flocks of birds following in your wake, hoping to catch a snack. Now scientists say they can use those birds behavior...
Espresso May Be Better when Ground Coarser Making a cup of coffee isnt rocket science. But a new study shows that a background in math and analytical chemistry doesnt hurt. Because researchers who applied their skills in materials science and modelin...
Neandertals Tooled Around with Clams Around 100,000 years ago, in what is now Italy, our Neandertal cousins waded out into the shallow coastal waters of the Mediterranean Sea in search of clams. They grabbed the mollusks from the seafloor and perhaps...
Science News Briefs from All Over 来自世界各地的科学新闻简报 Hi, Im Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And heres a short piece from the January 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the...
Facts about Groundhogs Other Than Their Poor Meteorology February 2: the day each year when we look toward an oversized rodent to find out how much more winter well endure. In honor of the occasion, heres seven things you might not have known about t...
