SSS 2009-05-15

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science, Im Steve Mirsky, got a minute? Friends who had a swimming pool also had a little sign posted that said, We dont swim in your toilet. Please dont pee in our pool. Despite such widespread admonitions, 4/5

SSS 2009-05-14

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. Americans have gained a lot of weight in the past few decades. Is it our sedentary lifestyle? The increase in processed foods and sweeteners? Supersize

SSS 2009-05-13

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Hybrid cars are good for the environment, but scientists say that they might be bad for pedestrians. Because hybrids are so quiet that can be hard for wa

SSS 2009-05-12

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Exercise is good for you. Antioxidants are good for you, but put them together, and its not as good as you think because a recent study shows that some v

SSS 2009-05-08

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. Im Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. For every action there is a reaction, and for many movements we make, there is an intention. We think about moving, and we move. Now a study published in t

SSS 2009-05-11

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. I still tend to move my fingers almost subconsciously when doing arithmetic. Well, that might be not so strange according to research published in the Ma

SSS 2009-05-01

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. Im Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and DND Imports of Los Angeles recently announced a voluntary recall of something called the dinosaur Era Two Hunting Dinosaur Pla

SSS 2009-05-04

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Climate change is the great environmental challenge facing the world today, but maybe we should start calling it Climates Change. Because scientists who've

SSS 2009-05-05

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Some names never seem to go out of style, like David or Emily. Some never really catch on. Not many girls are named Laurel, even fewer are named Lauryl S

SSS 2009-05-07

Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forests? What if its the forests that actually generate the rain? That is the contention of a paper in BioScience

SSS 2009-05-06

This is scientific American 60 second science. Im Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. When eBay first came onto the scene more than a decade ago, archaeologists were petrified. Easily buying and selling antiquities online might increase the l

SSS 2009-05-27

This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The fridge is one of your home's biggest energy hogs. Better insulation can make refrigerators much more efficient. And a panel encasing a vacuum is one

SSS 2009-05-26

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. As we recover from the holiday weekend, there is some intoxicating news on curbing the effects of alcohol. In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report

SSS 2009-05-22

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. If you ever got picked on in the schoolyard, you might have wished for some sort of superpower, like unbeatable speed or maybe just the ability to completely disappear. Now scientists

SSS 2009-05-21

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Can you name those notes? Probably not. Perhaps one in ten thousand speakers of European languages has perfect pitch - the ability to recognize a note without having hea

SSS 2009-05-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator. It has long been thought that some of its hunting prowess was due to a mouth teeming with bact

SSS 2009-05-19

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Senior citizens don't believe the hype, because a new study finds that older folks who accept that seniors' memories get worse do worse on memory tests.

SSS 2009-05-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky, got a minute? With swine flu, the big infectious disease story, you don't hear much about bird flu these days. And you may not have to look past your own nose for the reason because

SSS 2009-05-29

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. Im Karen Hopkin, This will just take a minute. Have you ever said, I know it like the back of my hand? Well, how well do you know the back of your hand, or the back of your knee, or behind your ears? Pr