This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? Talk about your vicious cycles. A new study finds that belly fat could be making you hungrier. Which would lead to more belly fat. The research was performed at the Univ
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Hi, Steve Mirsky. Here, I'm going over our usual one minute today. By now you've probably heard of Expelled, the new Ben Stein anti-evolution crocumentary. It officially opens today, as I speak that's
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Doctors prescribe Ritalin to hyperactive kids to calm them down and increase their attention span. And college kids have taken to using Ritalin to concentrate
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Youve probably heard of the whole six degrees of separation thing. It predicts that, on average, youre no more than six links away from any other person o
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. It took 13 years and countless hours of research to unravel the human genome. Now neuroscientists want to do their fields version. A small group of rese
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat even better than carbon dioxide. It comes from a variety of sources, including fossil fuel production and even
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Imagine tweezers so fine that you could reach right into a cell and manipulate individual molecules. MIT researchers have created such a tweezer, using
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Open your laptop in New York city, and chances are you'll find a Wi-Fi hotspot to surf on. Not so in tiny Lone Pine California, wedged between Death Valley and
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. When Harry Potter slips underneath his invisibility cloak, he can wander freely undetected, but what about a cloak of silence, one that completely deaden
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. You've landed a small role in a low-budget horror movie.To get ready,you need to practice your reaction shot, you know, that look you will get when your bo
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. With temperatures approaching 100 degrees in the eastern U.S. this week, its amazing that the leaves on the trees dont simply burst into flames. Maybe one
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Whales and dolphins were molded by evolution to glide through water. Weve been trying to create streamlined designs ourselves for structures such as win
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? After a bad day at the office, were more likely to flip on a nature channel than find a flower-filled meadow or sunny beach to lower our stress. But if you cant head
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Dear diary: today I ate 3 carrot sticks while I fantasized about eating carrot cake. Alright, alright, I ate 3 pieces of carrot cake, and never once consid
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. On the June 30th podcast, you heard some bad singing. Clearly a lot of people think they can sing, just look at the enormous crowds that show up to auditio
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? In the insect world, bright reds, oranges and yellows can be a warning: Eat me at your own risk, pal. Because colorful bugs can be toxic, they often get their
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 2005 two scientists won a Nobel Prize for discovering that a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori causes most stomach ulcers. One of them even chugged a
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I'm Steve Mirsky,got a minute? Our Milky Way galaxy produces only about 10 new stars annually. But a galaxy far, far away is experiencing a major baby boom. Its pumping out up to 4,000 new stars a year,
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Counting is one of the first things we teach our kids. I mean, every parents probably said, You had better be in that bed by the time I count to three. Fol
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. You may have heard of genetic research being done in Iceland. Its a rich venue, because Icelanders have a limited gene pool and highly detailed genealogi