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This podcast is brought to you by the American Chemical Society. The global challenges chemistry solutions podcast from ACS discusses how chemistry researchers critical in solving some of the world's most daunting problems, concerning energy, food an

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This is Scientific American 60-second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Hey, four eyes. Let playground tongue more accurate when it applied Anableps anableps, a fish related to the garbe. It lives in the blackish water of mangoswan i

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On the Italian coast, colored-houses build down the hillside, soaking up the sun as they face the sea. But look closely, and you'll notice that something is a little strange. In Comokolly, the art of illusion is everywhere. This fishing village near

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On the Italian coast, colored houses built down the hillside, soaking up the sun as they face the sea. But look closely, and you'll notice something is a little strange. In Camogli, the art of illusion is everywhere. This fishing village near Genoa i

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It turns out that maybe speciation is, too. Because a study in the October 2nd issue of Nature sugges

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One main goal in the renewable energy field is to find an efficient, inexpensive way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen could then be used as a fuel source for vehicles or fuel cells. Typically, an electric current breaks the water

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Counterfeiters and money minters constantly try to outsmart each other. But money could become much harder to forgethanks to butterfly wings. Butterfl

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute~ Fruit and veggies dont just improve your dietthey could enhance your looks. A new study, done with primarily Caucasian subjects, finds that eating produce heightens red

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