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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For worse or for better, humans are changing the course of evolution. On February 26, we talked about how fishing practices may be driving the evolution of

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Are smarter people drown to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation cre

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirskey, Got a minute? Here is another reason to stop global warming to keep the Burmese pythons in Florida. Burmese pythons have been turning up in south Florida in recent years. Perhaps you

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Astronomers have discovered a star thats running away from home. The star is speeding away at a blistering 2.6 million kilometers an hour, apparently after being cast out

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Anyone whos ever cut up an onion knows that some smells can actually be painful. Now, researchers from Baltimore and Denver are closer to understanding why

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mursky. Got a minute? Cameras that catch drivers who blow through red lights are there to improve safety by discouraging light-running. But such cameras actually increase the likelihood of car

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute? Orbiting around stars far far away is sand. Astronomers have found sandy particles circling a pair of stars about 2,400 light years from us. And they think they might be

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever been to the everglades or tuned into the animal planet, you know that gators can move through the water oh, so silently barely creating a rip

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. This will just take a minute. Computer status report. After its ongoing Mars missions, NASA will concentrate less on the red planet, and more on the solar system's other planets and moo

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin.This will just take a minute. For someone who smokes, there is nothing like that first nicotine rush of the day, but though taking a puff may bring smokers pleasure, it doesnt make the

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Ants are known for working together, operating as a unit for the good of the colony. But not so fast, say researchers from the Universities of Leeds an

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. The disease hepatitis C might provide a new tool in the fight against HIV AIDS ,say scientists at the Scripps Institute and in the Netherlands.The rese

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Somewhere along the line you've probably heard that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Its supposed to make your skin supple, keep your organ

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber .This will just take a minute. How can we improve engines, inhalers and fire extinguishers? Maybe by copying a beetle. The bombardier beetle's name might scare off predators if they

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Bacteria are amazingly adaptable. They live in hot springs, in the dead sea and of course inside people where they can dish up some truly nasty diseases.

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Western Mexico and countries on the west coast of South America had ancient relationships, involving trade in goods and culture. Now MIT students have

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. For years, advocates have touted the use of biofuels as a clean burning alternative to gasoline, now a pair of studies published in the Feb 8 issue of Sci

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That's the sound of clean coal. Well, cleaner coal. A relatively small unit attached to the smokestack at the Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia is capturing some 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide the coal-fired plant would otherwise belch into

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How can you tell the difference between a French baby and a German baby? No, its not that one is wearing a saucy little beret while the other is tucked into tiny pair of lederhosen. Well, maybe thats part of it. But a new study in the journal Current

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Evolution continues today, and sometimes we can watch it happening. Researchers in the November 6th edition of the journal Science say that they caught in the act a population of butterflies in Ecuador potentially diverging into two distinct species.

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