This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Last month the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hintertheur, got a minute? These days it seems no one's job is safe from computerized replacements, now it is time to add coffee experts to that list. Scientists at the Nestl Research Center
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Seems like every other week brings news that global warming is gonna be bad for some poor animal or other. But plants? Well, I guess I was thinking that p
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science .I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. It's Valentine's Day, even for barnacles which are stuck to rocks. But evolution has endowed these stationary creatures with some curious abilities accor
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? On February 14th, the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a call for the protection of federal scientists. The UCS press conference took place in space made available by
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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. got a minute? Earth-like planets have the potential to form around manyand perhaps mostof the nearest stars that are like our sun. Michael Meyer of the University of Arizona announced t
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Merskey. Got a minute? Some strong comments from John Holdren, director of the science technology and public policy program in Harvards JFK school of government. Saturday, the annual meeting
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. For years, advocates have touted the use of biofuels as a clean burning alternative to gasoline, now a pair of studies published in the Feb 8 issue of Sci
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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Air pollution is bad for our health, but scientists say we don't know much about the long-term effects. So researchers in Canada and the Netherlands dec
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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Chelsea Wald. Got a minute? Vinaigrette dressing: when you shake it little vinegar droplets scatter through the oil, but when you put it down, the droplets merge and the dressing separates. That's
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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. When is an ant like a piece of fruit? When its infected by a parasite. Researchers affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute discovered t
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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When you have an itch nothing feels better than a good scratch. Now scientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center think they know why. Th
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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Hitting your mid-forties? Chances are you are feeling down but don't hang your head. You are just at the bottom of life's U shaped path of happiness. You might not
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This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? The Meridiana Planum region of Mars once had water that was really soft and highly acidic, conditions in incredibly hostile to any life forms that we know about. So any
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. On February 8th, we told you about scientists who had created a device worn over the knees that could harvest the energy you otherwise waste while walking.
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Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber.This will just take a minute. Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have been able to send information ahead of particle beams racing at nearly the speed of li
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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Being a big fish in a small pond is more likely to get you noticed. Thats good news if you are, say, the best pitcher in your little league division, but
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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Earlier this month, NASA announced that an MIT Physics professor will lead a team of scientists on a new mission. The objective: build a giant radio telescope on the
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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The history of science is inextricably linked to the Galapagos and its influence on Darwin. In 2001, an oil tanker hit a reef in the Galapagos Islands an
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. Next time you are shoveling snow off your walk, don't blame the weatherman, blame bacteria. Because an international team of scientists has found that micr
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