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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Not too long ago, scientists had to hoof it to the library to review the literature. And they had to flip through a card catalog to find that dusty old v
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a few minutes? Today we have a special edition featuring a brief interview with Sciam editor, Steve Ashley. Steve Ashley, a lot of people are very concerned about oil right now, b
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. Itll just take a minute. When you think about an ecosystem, you usually think of the big animals that live there. The Serengetis ruled by lions. And estuaries are populated by fishes,
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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Remember when Barbie whined that math is hard. Maybe you got annoyed at hearing a popular female doll say that to little girls. Or maybe you also had a n
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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 Psych. I'm Christine Nicholson, got a m
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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, Im Karen Hopkin. This will
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