Scientific American's Sixty

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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