SSS 2011-07-05

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin in the windthe solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining sola

SSS 2011-07-07

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science.I'm Cynthia Graber . This will just take a minute. (Chirping sound.) That may not sound likemuchbut its the loudest animal in the world. For its size, that is. Theinsect called the water boatman is two m

SSS 2011-07-08

Cameras were once big and bulky. Today,really good cameras fit in your pocket. And now, researchers at Cornell havedeveloped a camera thats just a half-millimeter on each side and a hundredthof a millimeter thick. The lens-less device is called a Pla

SSS 2011-07-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? You've heard of tennis elbow. Well, a friend of mine has gamekeeper's thumb. When he told me his diagnosis, it rang a bell. So I went through the Scientific American arc

SSS 2011-07-12

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Obesity is associated with a host of health problems. But a new study finds that obese people may actually have an advantage in a specific medical situation: theyre less l

SSS 2011-07-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? You could think of it as the real dancing with the stars. Two white dwarf stars have been found twirling around each other to make a complete orbit in less than every 13

SSS 2011-07-14

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Former major league pitcher Antonio Alfonseca had six fingers on each hand. One of his coaches was once asked about the consequences of Alfonseca having six fingers and re

SSS 2011-07-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? At the recent Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 2009 chemistry laureate Thomas Steitz recalled that at one institution in the 60s, he saw how informal scientific collaborat

SSS 2011-07-06

What does a bookworm have in common with a black-tufted marmoset? They both like a little quiet. Or so say scientists in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. As urban areas continue to expand, their human inhabitants spread all sorts of polluti

SSS 2011-07-01

This is Scientific American's 60 second science. I'm Steve Mirsky. At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting at Lindau Germany. This will just take a little bit more time than our usual may?. Edmond Fischer won the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine in

SSS 2011-07-04

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. Why do I talk so much on money, when I'm a professor public health?

SSS 2011-07-28

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Nothing says summer like ants. Theyre at your picnics, on your porch, why theres one crawling up your leg right now. Well, now its your chance to turn the

SSS 2011-07-27

You, well not you, race through an intersection as the light turns red and then you notice the camera, they got you and a tickets on its way. Well researchers of quantified financial benefit of the cameras in one city turns out its for more than the

SSS 2011-07-26

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Antibiotics dont work against viruses, but doctors sometimes give antibiotics to patients who have what turns out to be a viral infection, which adds to

SSS 2011-07-25

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Think humans are at the top of the food chain? Not quite, in parts of Africa. Lions have attacked over 1000 people in Tanzania in the last 20 years. Two thirds o

SSS 2011-07-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. After water, tea is the world's most popular drink. Now three New York City high school students have discovered what maybe a bruing scandal because th

SSS 2011-07-20

This is Scientific American 60-second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Hey, four eyes. Let playground tongue more accurate when it applied Anableps anableps, a fish related to the garbe. It lives in the blackish water of mangoswan i

SSS 2011-07-19

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Medieval armor certainly looks heavy. And now researchers have demonstrated how the protection might have unwittingly put its wearers at a heavy disadvan

SSS 2011-07-29

More than 16 mammals species like the famous fly squirrel have adapted the ability to sail from tree to tree, thrilling Yes, but what is the evolutionary advantages. One theory suggests gliding saves energy, so researchers test that idea using colugo