This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I am Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Some people lie through their teeth, some lie about their teeth. Our early human cousins seem to have lied with their teeth. Or they at least misled scienti
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Podcast is sponsored from the People of American Chemistry who provide the plastics, medicines and innovations that make life modern. Learn more at americanchemistry.com. This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll ju
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Biologists often attempt to construct a genealogy that shows the relationships of all life on earth. One well-accepted effort compares the nucleic acid sequences that cod
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I am Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Losing weight is no walk in the park. (Although a walk in the park wouldnt hurt). Seems no matter what diet you try, those stubborn love handles just wont g
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I am Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? Its accepted that a large meteor impact 65 million years ago was responsible for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Which opened up niches for birds and mammals. But l
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. It sounds like something out of a bad science fiction novel. During World War II, a fungus called Tricoderma reesei ate its way through US military unifo
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This is scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Would America be a better place if more people with science training held elective office? One organization that thinks so is Scientists and Engineers for America, or SEA.
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Olive oil producers generally guess the best time to harvest their olives by checking the fruits color. The olive has to hit that perfect spot where they
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Robin Williams thought that the platypus was cobbled together by an inebriated deity: Lets take a beaver. Lets put on a ducks bill. Now we know how weird the platypus is
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I am Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. If youre a fan of bad movies, and even if youre not, you might remember the summer thriller Snakes on a Plane. In it, gangsters attempt to take down a plane
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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Heres one space mission that is definitely going to be unmannedNASA is going to the sun. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is buildi
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. If youve ever wanted to explore the universe, your dream is now as close as your keyboard. Because last week, Microsoft unveiled its online WorldWide T
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This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. If theres anything better than a fresh, ripe, tomato, its a gigantic fresh, ripe tomato. And thanks to a couple of mutations, thats exactly what we all enj
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This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. With gas prices at an all-time high, and expected to climb higher, seems people are keenly aware of what it costs to drive from here to there. But a study
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This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? The yeast Candida albicans ekes out a quiet living in our gut. But its a tough life. It faces acids and enzymes, and the immune system always bullies invaders.
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This is Scientific America's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Its hot to research life in extreme environments. There are organisms that thrive in boiling hot thermal vents and in toxic stews. These extremophiles, as
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. I had a roommate who couldnt sleep unless it was pitch dark, so she wore a face mask to bed. But shed gotten it from an airline, so one of the eye patches
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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science.I am Steve Mersky, got a minute? Phoenix has landed! Phoenix has landed! Welcome to the northern plains of Mars. That was the Jet Propulsion Laboratorys Richard Kornfeld, Sunday at 7:53pm eastern time, ac
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hamterture, got a minute? What's sixteen feet tall and 9,550 years old? Its the world's oldest tree. The worn and weathered spruce grows in Sweden's windswept tundra. But, until recently, wel
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This Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that older folks benefit from spending time with young people. And thats not just an excuse to stick grandma at the kids table at Thanksgiving. Now
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