SSS 2012-01-31

To a female orb web spider, a suitable male can look like a mate and meal. For these spiders, the dating game has turned into a deadly dance of evolutionary one. the female spiders can choose when to cut off their relations by eating her partner or k

SSS 2012-01-27

Algae naturally produce oil, when its process start with oil turned into bio fuels, an alternative energy source. This is just one snag. Harvesting the oil from algae-float water is prohibitively expensive. But researchers have come up with an effort

SSS 2012-04-24

This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute~ Want to suss out the existence of a shy mammal in a tropical jungle? Just check a bloodsucking leech. Scientists estimate that about a quarter of the w

SSS 2012-04-20

As it ages, white paper turns distinctive of yellow, but why? To find out, scientists artificially aged modern paper to rebuild the changes on the molecular level, the researchers in the Journal physical review of letters, for 48 days, 3 unpleached p

SSS 2012-05-31

Say Wilbur, get a load of this story. If you grew up in the '60s, you probably recognize the voice of Mr. Ed, TVs talking horse. And it turns out, he might recognize your voice, too. A new study shows that even non-talking horses can tell individual

SSS 2012-05-28

This is scientific American's 60 seconds science. I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute. Tens of millions of years ago, cephalopods were hiding from enemies in clouds of ink. And it turns out thatcuttlefish today producing ink that's almost identical. Re

SSS 2012-05-24

If you could add cells anywhere in your body, you might pick your brain. More brain cells should make you smarter, right? Well, a new study shows that they might just make you fatter. Becauseanimals that make new nerve cells in a brain region that co

SSS 2012-01-24

This is Scientific American Sixty Seconds Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? When Mexican tetra fish moved into darker caves long ago, they evolved to deal with the dark by becoming albino and going blind. A new research shows that the chang

SSS 2012-06-20

This is Scientific American 60 Seconds. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. In Europe and the near east, people went from being mobile hunter gathers to more settled agriculture way of life. But in Africa, no matters domesticated animals

SSS 2012-01-20

Two washing machine-sized satellites recently went into orbit around the moon. In March, they start together the detailed data about the quakes of the moons gravity. The working name of the satellites have been GRAIL A and B，for gravity recovery an

SSS 2012-02-28

This is Scientific Ameican 60 second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute! Cave painting connects us with our prehistoric artist ancestors. But there's a dearth of such illustration in the Americas. Now a cave in Brazil has been

SSS 2012-02-27

Cave painting connects us with our prehistoric artist ancestors. But there's a dearth of such illustration in the Americas. Now a cave in Brazil has been found to house the oldest New World image known. The shelter was excavated from 2002 to 2009. In

SSS 2012-02-23

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute In the lab, female rodents sometimes terminate their pregnancies after being exposed to new males. Its called the Bruce effect, for researcher Hilda Bruce. Now a study i

SSS 2012-02-20

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? In science, citations are gold. A journal article that gets cited a lot is usually considered a valuable piece of work. Now comes a study claiming that the number of times

SSS 2012-03-21

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, i am Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute~ When you hear Western music, you generally get the emotional tone. A major key is happy. (music plays) A minor one? Thats sad. (music plays) And spoken

SSS 2012-01-02

Happy new year and dont feel bad about taking today off, after all, youve travelled far. And Im not talking about the trip home from the party. According to NASA, just by being on the planet earth last year, youve zipped about 584 million miles aroun

SSS 2012-01-09

This scientific American 60 second ，I'm Cynthia Graber 。This just takes a minute。 After Haitiearth quack 2 year ,color swept the country. And within months, the same strain has spread to demanded republican of US then to Bure ,Mexico ,Spain ,an

SSS 2012-07-26

This is Scientific American 60-second Science.I'm A.L.Got a minute? A nice glass of saki might not make figure of your dug.The bosom has resulted belong demascation processors.Humans have demascatered on off louder organisms from paths to grains to t

SSS 2012-01-16

Magnifying glass, calipers, teeny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fighting it out to find the world's smallest frog. One team just announced the discovery of the unaverage 7.7 millimeter p* which can sit comfortabl

SSS 2012-01-11

This is Scientific Americans -60 seconds science .I'm Steve Murskey.Got the minute? People with high blood pressure are often told to watch the salt, and it's long been far that hypertension related to excess salt is caused by the salt increasing in