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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Monkey Drives Dinosaur G
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and DND Imports of Los Angeles recently announced a voluntary recall of something called the Dinosaur Era 2 Hunting Dinosaur playset. Because the monkey co2009-06-01 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Human Speech Genes Mimic
[Cartoon audio clip] “We interrupt your regular broadcast to bring you this important news bulletin.”Humans can talk. Chimps can’t.“Your scientific jargon staggers me, Pinky.”In recent years sci2009-05-31 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Bacteria on the Skin&nbs
Have you ever said, “I know it like the back of my hand”? Well, how well do you know the back of your hand? Or the back of your knee? Or behind your ears? Probably not as well as scientists at the2009-05-30 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Rice for Nice, Low-Price
The fridge is one of your home’s biggest energy hogs. Better insulation can make refrigerators much more efficient. And a panel encasing a vacuum is one of the best insulators known. But vacuum-insu2009-05-28 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Cancer Drugs May Also&nb
As we recover from the holiday weekend, there’s some intoxicating news on curbing the effects of alcohol. In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report discovering a gene that controls fruit flie2009-05-27 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Earth Experiencing "Clim
Climate change is the great environmental challenge facing the world today. But maybe we should start calling it “climates change”. Because scientists who’ve looked to glaciers to study the histor2009-05-26 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Heather Today, Gone Tomo
Some names never seem to go out of style, like David or Emily. Some never really catch on. Not many girls are named Laurel, even fewer are named lauryl sulfate. And now a study in the May 5th issue o2009-05-25 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Weak Have Stronger Heari
If you ever got picked on in the schoolyard, you might have wished for some sort of superpower: like unbeatable speed or maybe just the ability to completely disappear. Now scientists at the College2009-05-24 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Perfect Pitch Related to
Can you name those notes? Probably not—perhaps one in 10,000 speakers of European languages has perfect pitch, the ability to recognize a note without having heard any reference note first. But ther2009-05-22 編輯:echo
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[科學美國人60秒綜合系列] 60秒科學:Dragon's Bite Bloodier&nb
The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator. It’s long been thought that some of its hunting prowess was due to a mouth teeming with bacteria. An attack that didn’t immed2009-05-21 編輯:echo