SSS 2008-09-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?. [Spray sound.] Killing bugs? No. [Spray sound.] Deodorizing the bathroom? No. [Spray sound.] Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of Califor

SSS 2008-09-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Open a newspaper any day of the week and youre likely to read about a promising new treatment for one disease or another. But according to a study publis

SSS 2008-09-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its not often that an incoming college freshman is already starting his own multimillion dollar business. But thats whats happening to Ben Gulak. Hes a

SSS 2008-09-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? There's a new prescription for communities that want to make their streets safer for bike riders: just add more bikes. A team of international researchers looked at

SSS 2008-09-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber .This will just take a minute. A year ago astronomers sent out an invitation. A robotic telescope called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey had produced almost a million images. Researcher

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 2008-09-12

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 2008-09-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? We live in a nice neighborhood. Of the galaxy, that is. The sun is about halfway toward the outer edge of the Milky Way. But the sun may have migrated vast distances t

SSS 2008-09-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Breaking a mirror means seven years bad luck. So does spilling salt or meeting a black cat. Weve all heard such silly-sounding superstitions. Of course w

SSS 2008-09-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Conditions such as mad cow disease are caused by abnormally shaped proteins, called prions. Prions spread by causing other, normal proteins to misfold

SSS 2008-09-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. this will just take a minute. Weve all heard of the fight to combat malaria in mostly poor, tropical countries. But a whole host of other tropical diseases exist that leave their vi

SSS 2008-09-09

This is Scientific Americans Sixty-Second-Science, Im Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Everybody loves your freeby, especially those samples you get at the doctors office with the latest greatest brand-name cures for your headache, or your

SSS 2008-09-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever gotten sucked into a bidding war on eBay, you know the feeling. With one minute left in the auction, the bidding is fast and furious as eve

SSS 2008-09-30

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The Earths crust is old. Billions of years old. So old that its nearly impossible to imagine. And now scientists have discovered what may be the oldest

SSS 2008-09-29

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. We humans love a good story. We tell stories to entertain, to inform, even to pass the time. And weve been telling tales for, oh, the past 50,000 years.

SSS 2008-09-19

Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its fairly well known that fish stocks are collapsing around the world. But theres a management method that appears to offer long-term envir

SSS 2008-09-22

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Fingers are pretty nifty. They let you to grab a latte, type on a keyboard, even pull up your pants. But did you ever wonder: where do fingers come from?

SSS 2008-09-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes a bit of bacteria can be just what the doctor ordered. If you prize yogurt for its active cultures, you know what Im talking about. Now a new s

SSS 2008-09-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Theres a Native American site in Ohio that appeared to be a fort. But recent discoveries by archaeologists at the University of Cincinnati show thats n