SSS 2011-03-29

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? To keep your car purring, you have to change the oil. Such maintenance produces eight billion gallons of used motor oil annually. Some waste oil does get re-refined to pro

SSS 2011-03-30

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. 2011 is the International Year of Chemistry. So scientists at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim raised a glass. (Or a beak

SSS 2011-03-31

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its been nearly 20 years since astronomers first identified a planet outside our solar system. More than 500 exoplanets have been discovered since then, ye

SSS 2011-02-17

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Usually, we trust common sense to solve problems. Is a runny mixture too thick? Add some fluid. Thatll make it runnier. Except when the fluid makes it th

SSS 2011-02-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? It took until about 1800 or 1825 to put the first billion people on the planet. We added the most recent billion in 12 or 13 years. We anticipate two billion more by 205

SSS 2011-04-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Are your car bumpers riddled with scars from encounters with tight parking spaces? Did the furniture movers scratch your floor? Wouldn't it be great if t

SSS 2011-06-21

This is Scientific American sixty seconds science. I am cythina Graber. This will just take a minute. You are lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth.in no time. It turns out that not just the relaxation of being

SSS 2011-06-22

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Saliva contains many useful components: lubricants, enzymes for breaking down food and now compounds that can reveal a persons age. Thats according to a

SSS 2011-06-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth's magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilitiesin our eyes. So say

SSS 2011-06-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet Pluto while looking at photographs of the night sky. Pluto was the first object to be found

SSS 2011-06-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau Germany.This will just take a little more time than our usual minute. Oliver Smithies won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 20

SSS 2011-06-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau Germany.This will just take a little more time than our usual minute. Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the disco

SSS 2011-06-29

You are opening ceremony of the London Nobel Loyal meeting included the panel discussion on global health featuring Bill Gates. Yeah, this is to say about Obama research funding priorities. Virtually, for the disease serve the rich, aha, it basic mai

SSS 2011-06-30

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau Germany, this will just take a little time than a usual minute. Edmond Fischer won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for his discoveries with Edwin Krebs about the way protein get activat

SSS 2011-02-18

According to a variety of studies my languages may be providing mental benefits beyond the ability to chat with locals when I travel. Judith Kroll, from Penn State University, discussed findings from a number of her labs papers on February 18th at a

SSS 2011-05-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon enjoyed a privileged lifestyle in what is now Luxor about 3,500 years ago. But she may not have been a happy princess towar

SSS 2011-05-19

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its graduation season. And some scientists got to wondering whether the folks who shake hundreds of hands while passing out diplomas run the risk of coming

SSS 2011-05-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Whether it's for streaming Netflix or sharing files, we're gobbling up more and more dataand we want it faster. But even shooting data with lasers over fiber-o

SSS 2011-05-25

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. A jumping cockroach. A glowing mushroom. And a leech that has teeth. These are three of scientists' picks for the Top Ten New Species described in 2010.

SSS 2011-05-26

A jumping cockcroach, a glowing mushroom and a leech that has teeth. These are the three of scientists picks for the big top ten new species decribed in 2010. The list is dissembled by the international institute for species exploration at Arizona St