SSS 2008-08-12

Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber . This will just take a minute. Some peppers have a mild, fresh flavor. But others burn your lips and leave a lingering, numbing kick. If you enjoy that tingling thrill, y

SSS 2008-08-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Since so many species in a food web are interconnected, the demise of a one can mean extinction for several others that depend on it for food. Thanks to things like

SSS 2008-08-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin . This will just take a minute. Unless youre talking about killer bees, its hard to imagine a situation in which killers and bees would be related. But it turns out that scientists are

SSS 2008-09-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?. [Spray sound.] Killing bugs? No. [Spray sound.] Deodorizing the bathroom? No. [Spray sound.] Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of Califor

SSS 2008-09-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Open a newspaper any day of the week and youre likely to read about a promising new treatment for one disease or another. But according to a study publis

SSS 2008-09-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its not often that an incoming college freshman is already starting his own multimillion dollar business. But thats whats happening to Ben Gulak. Hes a

SSS 2008-09-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? There's a new prescription for communities that want to make their streets safer for bike riders: just add more bikes. A team of international researchers looked at

SSS 2008-09-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber .This will just take a minute. A year ago astronomers sent out an invitation. A robotic telescope called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey had produced almost a million images. Researcher

SSS 2008-12-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Well, here I am on my exercise bike, anticipating the excesses of the holidays. All those cookies and candies and maybe a glass or two of eggnog. At the

SSS 2008-09-15

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If you spent any time in your car this summer you probably sat in some traffic. Maybe youre in a jam right now. If so, a study in an upcoming issue of Ph

SSS 2008-09-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber . This will just take a minute. Theres a traditional bowl in Korea that locals say makes food safer. And they might be right. The bowl is made of almost 80 percent copper. Copper ion

SSS 2008-10-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. So Im having dinner with my two-year-old son. When he clears his plate, he says to me, Get in the kitchen. I want more. Get in the kitchen, I want more?

SSS 2008-10-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? This presidential election will likely have a huge effect on health care. But it also will probably have a direct effect on public health. Because theres a higher risk

SSS 2008-10-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? When we feel like we don't have command of our own fate, our brains often invent patterns that offer a sense of self-control. Some folks knock on wood or step over c

SSS 2008-10-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Germanys Harald zur Hausen and Frances Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded October 6th. Barre-Sin

SSS 2008-10-07

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The 2008 Nobel Prize in physics goes to an American and two Japanese scientists for work related to symmetry in particle physics. In the early 1960s, Yoichiro Nambu of

SSS 2008-10-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three men who revolutionized molecular life science, Japans Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien. They dev

SSS 2008-10-09

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

SSS 2008-10-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? If you're worried about news reports of West Nile virus, you might want to go take a census of the birds in your backyard. Because certain species of birds actually

SSS 2008-10-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. We all know people who are completely unflappable, able to remain calm in the face of total calamity. Dont you just hate those people? Well, a new study