SSS 2011-02-24

If you splashed down in the Atlantic, you'd flounder on which way to swim. But a hatchling loggerhead turtle would know just where to paddleby reading the Earth's magnetic field. Scientists knew turtles can pinpoint latitude this way, because the fie

SSS 2011-02-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? It took until about 1800 or 1825 to put the first billion people on the planet. We added the most recent billion in 12 or 13 years. We anticipate two billion more by 205

SSS 2011-02-17

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Usually, we trust common sense to solve problems. Is a runny mixture too thick? Add some fluid. Thatll make it runnier. Except when the fluid makes it th

SSS 2012-01-30

picture in orange it's a case in biology grazable heart shaw. the pill's even some addable as moraly as far as he can task. but we human often pack it food and plastic with it's environmental and the puzzle chanlenges. so Harvard scientist D-A and K

SSS 2011-08-02

Plants are sitting ducks for every hungry herbivore that wanders past. But for some greens, a little grazing is the best thing that can happen. They grow back faster and fuller and make more seeds than they would have if left alone. Now scientists kn

SSS 2011-02-07

Patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery need implants of new, healthy blood vessels. So do those who receive repeated hemodialysis due to kidney failure. The best option is to use the patient's own veins or arteries, but thousands of patients don

SSS 2011-03-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that love is blind. And that's probably for the best. Because a new study shows that people who greatly idealize their spouses have the happiest

SSS 2011-02-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Ahhh, the great outdoors. Great for your health, too. Because studies suggest that the more we visit local parks, the more fit we are. Researchers at Pen

SSS 2012-04-10

This is scientific American 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? Free smart phone apps might seem like a deal. But they can have a hidden cost: your phone's battery life. That's because free apps often serve up ads, which can

SSS 2012-03-19

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute. Scientists discover new species all the timeon the order of 15,000 a year. One of the latest additions to the tree of life is a new type of leopard frog. Which

SSS 2012-03-15

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Every year, about 10 million tons of paper winds up in American landfills and incinerators, which is not only wasteful but adds CO2 to the atmosphere. Rec

SSS 2012-03-07

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, got a minute~ Theyre called hydogels: Jell-O-like materials made of networks of long-chain molecules in water. And theyre as flexible as living tissue. But hydrogels could not recov

SSS 2012-03-06

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute~ How can we search for life on exoplanets? Step one: examine the Earth as if it were an exoplanet. Thats the idea behind a recent look at earthshine. Res

SSS 2012-06-14

Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle: They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna, but they also need to make sure that their animal asssistants don't digest the very seeds that are meant

SSS 2012-06-12

In the day of the dinosaur, insects had wingspans of nearly 2.5 feet. So why are today's bugs so puny? According to researchers at U.C. Santa Cruz, we may have birds and bats to thank. Their concludes appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy

SSS 2012-06-07

Sometimes women and men break a nail working on a tough task. Because our keratin claws are no match for the club-like appendages of a critter called the peacock mantis shrimp. They can hammer through crab exoskeletons and even mollusk shells to find

SSS 2012-06-05

This is Scientific American's 60 seconds science. I'm Kellen Horgon. This will just take a minute. Have you ever wondered what happens to mosquitos in the rain, a raindrop is like 15 times heavier than those little suckers. So getting hit by one, he'

SSS 2012-06-04

This is Scientific Americans 60 second science, I am John Matson. Were just hours away from the last transit of Venus until the year 2117. A transit is when a planet passes in front of the sun, revealing itself as a tiny black dot on the suns face. T

SSS 2012-01-18

True to their names, boa constrictors squeeze the life out of their prey. But how dose a boa know its enough for a rat? The snake listens, for a heart beat. When it stops, thats a cue to let go, according to a study in the Journal biology letters. Re

SSS 2012-01-19

On election day, where do you vote? If its in a church, you might be inclined to vote more conservatively than if you cast your ballot at a school or government building. Thats according to reserch published in the international journal for the psych