美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-14

You vote for politicians based on their views, right? That's how it works in theory. But other factors can sway your vote. Like a politician's voice. Because studies show that the deeper the voice, the more electable the candidate. And not just for m

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-13

You vote for politicians based on their views, right? Thats how it works in theory, but other facts can sway your votes like politicians voice. Because a study showed that the deeper the voice, the more electable the candidate. And not just for men,

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-12

What prehistoric genius first discovered how to transform milk into delicious cheese? We may never find out, but we now know that humans were purposefully making cheese as early as 7,500 years ago. The finding is in the journal Nature. To make cheese

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-11

What does an 800-pound gorilla eat? If you said: anything it wants, youre not thinking like a scientist. A scientist would say, Let me analyze the isotopic composition of its excreta and Ill get back to you. Because a new study shows that the ratio o

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-10

Porcupines sport some 30,000 quills, which easily penetrate fleshand then stay stuck in it. Now, scientists have analyzed the shape of individual quills to discover what makes them so effectiveand how we can harness their power for medical devices. T

SSS 2011-01-11

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Thats a sound that inspires fear around the world: the dentists drill. And fear of that sound itself could play a part in keeping some people from gettin

SSS 2011-03-17

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Thisll just take a minute. We are definitely in uncharted waters, particularly given that the spent fuel pool appears to either not have water or have very little water. Its completely

SSS 2011-03-04

Every villain has his Achilles' heel. And microscopic scoundrels are no exception. The challenge for those who wish to ward off microbial bad guys is to identify that weak spot. Now, scientists studying the toxoplasmosis parasite think they've done j

SSS 2011-03-08

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Wine can help keep conversation flowing at a dinner party. And now it looks like that wine may aid in materials science as well. Japanese researchers dis

SSS 2011-03-09

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The numbers of fish and other ocean life have dropped dramatically in the past few decades. That's because of commercial overfishing, and something cal

SSS 2011-03-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? During the 2008 presidential election, the Internet became a giant rumor mill. For example, there were the viral e-mails claiming Barack Obama's birth certific

SSS 2011-03-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Elephants are smart, social animals. And now we know that they can organize themselves into teams to accomplish tasks. A research team that included re

SSS 2011-03-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. This will just take a minute. The type of accident that is occurring in Japan is known as the station blackout: loss of off-site AC powerpower lines are downand then a subsequent fail

SSS 2011-03-15

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Imagine life without fire. A lot of huddling for warmth. The consensus was that humans could make and control fire when they first migrated north to cold

SSS 2011-03-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Rennie. Got a minute? Congress has finally acted on global warmingby denying it exists. It's in the grand lawmaking tradition of the Indiana state legislature's 1897 attempt to redefine the va

SSS 2011-03-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Wanna get out of the hospital alive? Well, the nursing staff has a lot to do with it. Now a study finds that a patients risk of dying goes up along with the number of wo

SSS 2011-03-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Mark Twain called it the most delicious fruit known to men. He was talking about the cherimoya. If you never heard of it, there's good reason. It has a

SSS 2011-04-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say you should take the bitter with the sweet. But if you're not a big fan of bitter, chemists have just the loophole for you. Oh, you'll still have

SSS 2011-04-05

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? A rolling stone gathers no moss. But a salamander embryo can attract algae inside its tissues and cells. This intimate co-habitationthe first ever seen between algae and a

SSS 2011-04-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar cells convert sunlight to electricity. But they don't take advantage of all that solar heat, thereby missing out on the majority of the solar ene