SSS 2008-09-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes a bit of bacteria can be just what the doctor ordered. If you prize yogurt for its active cultures, you know what Im talking about. Now a new s

SSS 2008-09-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Theres a Native American site in Ohio that appeared to be a fort. But recent discoveries by archaeologists at the University of Cincinnati show thats n

SSS 2008-09-25

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Athletes have obviously been tempted to use performance enhancing anabolic steroids. Drug testing may discourage such use. But a new study finds that some of the perfo

SSS 2008-10-29

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Still lots of undecided voters out there, with less than a week to go before election day. But many of these undecideds may already have made their choice. Even though

SSS 2008-04-30

This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. The Taliban destroyed international treasures when they wrecked the ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistans Bamiyan region. But new treasures have now bee

SSS 2008-03-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. If youve ever given any thought to the life style of the hermaphrodite, its probably occurred to you that being both male and female doubles your chance

SSS 2008-03-24

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. On March 18th, we told you that smoking doesnt make people happy. Well, we hear you ask, what will make me happy? What? What? Ok. First relax, then take ou

SSS 2008-03-25

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When it comes to saving lives, a personal touch can sometimes work better than drugs alone. Thats what researchers in Uganda found in a study publishe

SSS 2008-03-26

Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the 7 days starting March 26, 2008. Im Steve Mirsky. The baseball season is already underway, so this week on the podcast well talk about some baseball related science with editor

SSS 2008-03-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Brains can register a foods caloric value independent of our taste buds, say scientists from Duke University and from Portugal. First the scientists e

SSS 2008-03-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. One of the problems with large-scale solar power plants is that they require a huge amount of space. To rise above that problem Israeli researchers rece

SSS 2008-03-31

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Steve Mirsky, got a minute? You are pulling the tape off the roll and it starts to tear, or you are moving wallpaper and it refuses to strip off in strips or in what may be the most infuriating ca

SSS 2008-02-20

This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? The Meridiana Planum region of Mars once had water that was really soft and highly acidic, conditions in incredibly hostile to any life forms that we know about. So any

SSS 2008-02-22

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. On February 8th, we told you about scientists who had created a device worn over the knees that could harvest the energy you otherwise waste while walking.

SSS 2008-02-25

Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber.This will just take a minute. Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have been able to send information ahead of particle beams racing at nearly the speed of li

SSS 2008-02-26

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Being a big fish in a small pond is more likely to get you noticed. Thats good news if you are, say, the best pitcher in your little league division, but

SSS 2008-02-27

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Earlier this month, NASA announced that an MIT Physics professor will lead a team of scientists on a new mission. The objective: build a giant radio telescope on the

SSS 2008-02-28

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The history of science is inextricably linked to the Galapagos and its influence on Darwin. In 2001, an oil tanker hit a reef in the Galapagos Islands an

SSS 2008-02-29

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. Next time you are shoveling snow off your walk, don't blame the weatherman, blame bacteria. Because an international team of scientists has found that micr

SSS 2008-01-22

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science.I'm Karen Hopkin .This will just take a minute. When you hear things like, human DNA differs from chimp DNA by only a couple percent. You cant help but wonder. How can that be? How can so few changes ma