SSS 2009-02-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If you have a dog, you know you gotta walk it. But do you know how it walks? Well, if you have no idea which foot Fido puts forward when, youre in good c

SSS 2009-02-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Mosquitoes have an unwitting new ally in the war on infectious diseasesconservationists. Turns out that, for mosquitoes carrying dengue-fever, environmentally consci

SSS 2009-02-05

Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Nearly 20 percent of servicemen and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan report symptoms of post-traumatic stress or major depression. Another 19 perce

SSS 2009-02-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its good to be the Queen. You get fed and cared for and generally treated like royalty. But if youre a blue butterfly caterpillar, you can get the same b

SSS 2009-02-09

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. In the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, the star answers game show questions correctly based on his life experiences. At least one right answer, however,

SSS 2009-02-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Heres a novel potential public health measure against the flukick up the humidity. The cold, dry months of winter signal the start of flu season. But previous resear

SSS 2009-02-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson . Got a minute? The lure of gambling clearly comes from the chance of winning. But how exciting is it to almost win? A study in the February 12th issue of the journal Neuron look

SSS 2009-02-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? February 12th is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. But theyre linked by something else, too. Before Darwin, natural philosophers held to a poin

SSS 2009-02-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes you want something so badly it hurts, usually something that someone else has. Now a report in the journal Science shows that the agony of envy

SSS 2009-02-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Even monkeys know when theyre getting a bad deal, said primatologist Frans de Waal at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in

SSS 2009-02-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Expectant moms can have very different ideas when it comes to where they plan to have their babies. Some women even choose to give birth in a warm tub of

SSS 2009-02-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Indiana Jones (I hate snakesI hate em!) would have totally despised a snake that lived some 60 million years ago. Because researchers working in Colombia have found th

SSS 2009-02-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Future cosmologists will get the universe all wrong, said Arizona States Lawrence Krauss at the AAAS Meeting on February 16th: All of the pillars of the big bang will

SSS 2009-02-19

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Time to bring back the Office of Technology Assessment. The OTA was created in 1972 to provide Congress with an objective analysis of complex scientific and technologi

SSS 2009-02-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Creationists often publish lists of a few dozen scientists who doubt Darwin. So in 2003, the National Center for Science Education put together a list of 200 scientist

SSS 2009-02-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Were on the verge of finding out how frequently habitable planets occur in the universe. That was astronomer Alan Boss at the AAAS meeting on February 14th. And I thin

SSS 2009-02-25

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. They say that money cant buy happiness. Ryan Howell believes that it cansometimes. Howell is a researcher at San Francisco State University. He thought

SSS 2009-02-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Angry or upset? Try picking up a pen. According to psychologist Matthew Lieberman, most people don't think of writing as a way to calm down. When you look at the bra

SSS 2009-02-26

（A segment of President Obamas speech to a joint session of Congress on February 24th dealing with energy and basic research:） We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century. And yet, it is Chin

SSS 2009-02-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? February 28th is International Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, according to practitioner Dan Meyer, who recently demonstrated the technique at the AAAS meeting in Chic