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 2010-11-19

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Look at a map and you can tell right away where New York ends and New Jersey begins. But that official border is not a true reflection of how the community is really sha

SSS 2010-12-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. 'Tis the season when many of us go on a seafood diet: we see food and we eat it. But if you want to avoid packing on the pounds, a new study suggests tha

SSS 2011-10-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Believe it or not, violence has been in decline for long stretches of time. And today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. Harvard

SSS 2011-10-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Amy Kraft. Got a minute? Over the course of this campaign... A lot of people watch political debates on TV. Which means great opportunities for advertisers. But an ad for an island getaway or exoti

SSS 2011-10-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Daniel Schechtman of the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in Haifa. Schechtman discovered what are called quasicrystals.

SSS 2011-10-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Brian Schmidt at the Australian National Lab and Adam Reiss at Johns Hopki

SSS 2011-09-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute? When it came to surviving freezing weather, mammoths relied on more than their woolly coats: even their blood was specially adapted to let them thrive in chilly clime

SSS 2011-05-10

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? One way advertisers convince us to buy something is to remind us that weve enjoyed their product before. But unfortunately, we can have fond memories of a produc

SSS 2011-04-15

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? When your stomach's empty, it pumps out the hormone ghrelin, to whet your appetite and get your juices flowing. But ghrelin doesn't just make you crave a bite.

SSS 2011-04-14

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Only 10 percent of people die from primary tumors. The real problem is when it spreads around the body. The problem of metastases. Arizona State Universitys Paul Davies, s

SSS 2011-09-07

This is Scientific Americans 60-SecondScience. Im Steve Mirsky. This will just take a minute. Economics:supply and demand. Thats Father Guido Sarducci... Thats it. sharing theentirety of the economics course at his Five-Minute-University. Of course,

SSS 2011-09-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science.I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Hi. Im running. Im also telling some ofmy stem cells what to do right now. Well, I probably am, based on a new study with mice. We have what are called mesenchymal stemce

SSS 2011-08-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? When a healthy rat smells a cat, it flees. But rats infected with the Toxoplasma brain parasite actually follow cat odors, often presumably to their doom, red in tooth a

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 2011-04-13

[fly]This is Scientific Americans: 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky. Go a minute? Only ten percent of people die from primary tumors, the real problem is when it spreads around the body, the problem of metastasis. Arizona state University's Paul D

SSS 2011-03-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? During the 2008 presidential election, the Internet became a giant rumor mill. For example, there were the viral e-mails claiming Barack Obama's birth certific

SSS 2012-07-04

yeah,you'd better talk about this thing.Now now now look hero be you.You can give a little pity pig let them out three senses to a wood calls like underprevely children drug.I was reading here just other day when the some were like ball hundred meeti

SSS 2012-04-04

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Steve Mirsky, got a minute? Thirty percent of the teachers around the country teaching physics either dont have a degree in physics or dont have a minor in physics. Philip DiStefano, chancellor of t

SSS 2012-06-06

Some dinosaurs were really huge, and now we may have a better way to estimate just how heavy these giants were. Researchers have developed a method to weigh dinosaurs based on laser scans of their skeletons. The study is in the journal Biology Letter