SSS 2009-05-11

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. I still tend to move my fingers almost subconsciously when doing arithmetic. Well, that might be not so strange according to research published in the Ma

SSS 2009-03-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. If you get a scratch, your skin can heal itself. But if your car gets scratched, it stays scratched. Scientists at the University of Southern Mississip

SSS 2009-03-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. On March 11th, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for a moonshot for energy independence. Hes set up a task force to look into the large-scale product

SSS 2009-03-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. People get malaria from Anopheles mosquitoes that themselves are infected with a protozoan parasite called Plasmodium. The mosquitoes do have immune sy

SSS 2009-03-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Seventy percent of all antibiotics in this country go to livestock like pigs and chickens. And concern is growing about drug-resistant bacteria that sp

SSS 2009-03-19

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Imagine antibiotics that would never lose their punch. New research focuses on drugs that bacteria simply cant resist. Most antibiotics work by killing p

SSS 2009-04-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The common method of closing a surgical incision is simply to stitch the patient up. There are some issues, though. Good stitching can be challenging,

SSS 2009-04-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. We can get viruses from the Internet. But can we catch viruses on our cell phones? A new study in the journal Science says yes, but the spread of such ma

SSS 2009-04-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Batteries of the future need to deliver more energy, and they need to be smaller. Researchers at MIT think they have developed a technology that can, a

SSS 2009-04-07

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. The heart-stopping news from Stockholm is that the heart never stopsgrowing, that is. Because researchers have shown that the human heart continues to pr

SSS 2009-07-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? If youve spoken to anyone in New York City, where Scientific Americans offices are, then youve heard about the rain, every day since mid-June. Still, were not in t

SSS 2009-04-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Thrill-seeking stunt pilots spend years learning to perform maneuvers that birds and bees know how to do from birth. Now a new study in the journal Scien

SSS 2009-04-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson . Got a minute? Altruism poses a problem for the theory of survival of the fittest. If we help others at a cost to ourselves, nice-guy behavior should die out, because we are giv

SSS 2009-04-15

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It's April 15th. Like many people around the country, you might be feeling your blood pressure rise as you deal with everyone's favorite activityfiling

SSS 2009-04-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Hard-training athletes boost their performance with a variety of popular sports drinks. These drinks do work. But not in the way youd think. Thats acco

SSS 2009-04-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? At Antarcticas Blood Falls, the ice is stained red by ancient, iron-rich water pouring out of subglacial lakes formed millions of years ago. The cascading water is e

SSS 2009-04-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The new Yankee Stadium has opened in the Bronx. I went to a game Saturday, and its a much friendlier place for anyone trying to eat healthfully and maintain some envir

SSS 2009-05-01

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. Im Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and DND Imports of Los Angeles recently announced a voluntary recall of something called the dinosaur Era Two Hunting Dinosaur Pla

SSS 2009-05-04

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Climate change is the great environmental challenge facing the world today, but maybe we should start calling it Climates Change. Because scientists who've

SSS 2009-05-05

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. 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 S