SSS 2011-06-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Meatloaf, mac-and-cheese or a big bowl of mashed potatoes. We all have our comfort foods. Except for people with anorexia. Food makes them extremely unco

SSS 2011-06-07

For most of us, owing thousands of dollars in students loans, all while juggling crushing credit card debt probably sounds like a nightmare. But for people in their early to mid-20s, all that debt actually seems to boost their self-esteem. Possibly b

SSS 2011-06-08

You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, and you shouldn't judge a species by place of its origin, so say ecologists in the commentary in the Journal Nature. They argued that conservation should access organisms based on their impact on the local env

SSS 2011-06-10

The tomb of king Tutenkhamen better know as King Tut, has raised many questions over the years, what killed the young king, and what's the weird stuff on the walls, since the tomb was opened in 1922, tourists have peered the elaborately painted walls

SSS 2011-06-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? When the internet first got kicking, some scholars of democracy and civil society thought that online discussions could create what they called a conversationa

SSS 2011-06-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Apart from working and sleeping, the thing Americans do the most is watch TVfive hours a day on average. But all that time in front of the tube may up your ris

SSS 2011-06-15

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Climate change affects seasonal eventsspring flowers open earlier, songbirds breed sooner. But what about mammals? A new study documents the effect on a

SSS 2011-06-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. How many times has it happened to you: you're sitting around watching a rerun of Friends and you think: Man, if only I could catch a whiff of that hazeln

SSS 2011-06-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Youre lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth. In no time(snoring). It turns out thats not just the relaxation of b

SSS 2011-06-21

This is Scientific American sixty seconds science. I am cythina Graber. This will just take a minute. You are lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth.in no time. It turns out that not just the relaxation of being

SSS 2011-06-22

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Saliva contains many useful components: lubricants, enzymes for breaking down food and now compounds that can reveal a persons age. Thats according to a

SSS 2011-06-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth's magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilitiesin our eyes. So say

SSS 2011-06-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet Pluto while looking at photographs of the night sky. Pluto was the first object to be found

SSS 2011-06-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau Germany.This will just take a little more time than our usual minute. Oliver Smithies won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 20

SSS 2011-06-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau Germany.This will just take a little more time than our usual minute. Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the disco

SSS 2011-06-29

You are opening ceremony of the London Nobel Loyal meeting included the panel discussion on global health featuring Bill Gates. Yeah, this is to say about Obama research funding priorities. Virtually, for the disease serve the rich, aha, it basic mai

SSS 2011-06-30

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau Germany, this will just take a little time than a usual minute. Edmond Fischer won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for his discoveries with Edwin Krebs about the way protein get activat