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

SSS 2008-10-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Spending your life hanging out at the seaside might sound like easy living. But for marine mussels, a day at the shore is no walk on the beach. Clinging

SSS 2008-09-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? While Im talking, youre not just passively listening. Your brain is also busy at work, guessing the next word that I will savor before I actually speak it. You thought

SSS 2008-06-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? At a crowded party, seems like you will be hard to hear the person you are talking to over all the clinking glasses, the chatter, the laughter but somehow your

SSS 2008-06-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber.This'll just take a minute. On earth, snow crystals as we all know, form from frozen water. But scientists believe there're also flakes that fall on Mercury, and they're made of iro

SSS 2008-12-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? [Radio sound:] Northeast 480 you are cleared for landing, Northeast 480 you are cleared for landing. That same radar technology that guides aircraft and tracks hurrica

SSS 2008-12-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Finally, science has something you can give people that really does help them lose weight: money. Rewarding dieters with a few hundred dollars is effective for promoti

SSS 2008-08-01

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar panels typically convert sunlight into electricity or heat. But photosynthetic vegetation converts sunlight into chemical energy. Now M.I.T.s Dan

SSS 2008-03-06

This is scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mirskey. Got a minute? The lure of gold can be electric to some people even though the element is chemically inert on the large scale. But the researchers from Georgia Tech report that down at