SSS 2009-01-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Mosquitoes carry nasty diseasesdengue fever, west nile, malaria. But the microbes that cause those diseases dont attach themselves to the mosquitoes an

SSS 2009-01-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? We residents of the Milky Way should have a little extra skip in our step today. Turns out our home galaxy is much bigger and moving a lot faster than we previously th

SSS 2009-01-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. If we want to learn more about our planet and other planets in the universe, we can get some help from stars that are long dead and gone. Thats what U.

SSS 2009-01-07

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Man-made light sources can really throw animals for a loop. Moths can't tear themselves away from lightbulbs, and newly hatched sea turtles often shun moonlit ocean

SSS 2009-01-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Aspirin is a popular painkiller, and chances are you have some in your medicine chest right now. You might even have some in your flesh-and-blood, put-a-

SSS 2009-01-09

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Have you ever turned off your lights and heard [mosquito buzz]? To you its a sound that signals bites in the night. But to a male mosquito its a love son

SSS 2009-01-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Thousands of medieval European books survive to this day. Authors and scribes carefully handwrote the works on parchments made of animal skins. But the

SSS 2009-01-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. A bird in flight is a thing of beauty. Even their takeoffs and landings usually look effortless. But pterodactyls? Well, thats another story. Scientists

SSS 2009-01-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When we think about how to represent sound visually, most of us probably picture those volume-dependent sine waves. But thats not how John Stuart Reid

SSS 2009-01-15

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Forget the scalpel, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have created a tool that can move easily through tissue, potentially making biopsies much less invasive.

SSS 2009-01-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Theres definitely methane on Marsand there are seasonal variations of how much is being released into the thin Martian atmosphere. Which means that Mar

SSS 2009-01-19

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. A new study with worms shows that some have a gene that helps them stave off infections. Not through some kind of biochemistrybut by changing their behav

SSS 2009-01-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For years, scientists and physicians have been up in arms about the rise in antibiotic resistance. Seems that many bacteria, devious buggers that they ar

SSS 2009-01-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute Happy New Year! And dont feel bad about taking today off. After all, youve traveled far. And Im not talking about the trip home from the party last night. According to N

SSS 2009-01-21

Our health care is too costlyand each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind

SSS 2009-01-22

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For decades, scientists have used an imaging technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to chronicle the brain in action. But a stu

SSS 2009-01-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. As Valentines day approaches, remember, its the thought that counts. Just ask a decorated cricket. Because according to a study published in the January

SSS 2009-01-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. There's a huge, gunky brown cloud that lingers over south Asia and the Indian Ocean each winter. Its been known to cause respiratory diseases and even

SSS 2009-01-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. You may have noticed that as you get older, you start forgetting more stuff: like, where you left your glasses, or the names of your children. Well, if y

SSS 2009-01-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Triceratops, as the name suggests, were huge dinosaurs adorned with three horns on their heads. Scientists now say those horns may have been a sort of