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
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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
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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
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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
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. If evolution weeds out detrimental traits, why do some seem to stick around? Well what's bad in our current environment may have been good in the conditi
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. It will just take a minute. Picture a sloth and what do you see? Some slow-moving, hairy beasts just hanging around, maybe even catching some Zs, and thats just your husband. OK, ser
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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mersky. Got a minute? You probably missed it because you were sleeping. But one of North America's great natural phenomenon happened over the nights of mid-spring. After sundown, the skies fill
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Biologists, traditionally track migrations by tagging animals with devices that allow their movements to be monitored. But Homo sapiens can't be fitted wi
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. For women who are rather well-endowed, working out can sometimes be, well, a bit of a pain. Finding a good sports bra is key, now new research on breast
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. You should talk about your feelings. Do you want to talk about it? We need to talk.Whether its the aftermath of a failed relationship or the horrors of a
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. It might look and even feel like paper, but a new material created by scientists at MIT is designed to be an oil spill super-absorber. This technology d
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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
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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
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Physicists study all kinds of curious things,from the missing matter in the universe to the strange behavior of electrons ,but none of this is quite as cu
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. As you probably know, viruses can jump from animals to people, we've gotten flu from birds and pigs, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is thought to ha
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? On June 4th we told you about iron snowflakes on Mercury. Today we have some radical news about the atmosphere of Venus. Literally, a radical is a molecule that reacts e
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science.I'm Karren Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Location, location, location. We all know it's true of real estate. But it may also apply to the ballot box. Because a team of American researchers has foun
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirskey. Got a minute? That morning coffee is just the thing to get the brain in gear and the body moving. But it turns out that just the aroma of coffee also gets some of our genes up and at
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Christopher Intagliata.Got a minute? Ten years ago, MySpace did not exist,neither did Facebook. Just one site called 6 Degrees.com dominated the online social networking market. But soon, a bunch
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. For the last five years, researchers have been analyzing bird DNA. That effort has now completely altered our understanding of which bird species really
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