This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. As Valentines day approaches, remember, its the thought that counts. Just ask a decorated cricket. Because according to a study published in the January

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar panels typically convert sunlight into electricity or heat. But photosynthetic vegetation converts sunlight into chemical energy. Now M.I.T.s Dan

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Gonna watch the NFL Conference Championship games on Sunday? Youll see evidence for a new finding: aggression is rewarding. In what scientists from Vanderbilt University

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber . This'll just take a minute. You think we enjoy something based on its intrinsic qualities. Food should taste good because its molecules tickle our tongues. But it's much more compl

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. The disease hepatitis C might provide a new tool in the fight against HIV AIDS ,say scientists at the Scripps Institute and in the Netherlands.The rese

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For years, scientists and physicians have been up in arms about the rise in antibiotic resistance. Seems that many bacteria, devious buggers that they ar

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. A new study with worms shows that some have a gene that helps them stave off infections. Not through some kind of biochemistrybut by changing their behav

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Forget the scalpel, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have created a tool that can move easily through tissue, potentially making biopsies much less invasive.

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When we think about how to represent sound visually, most of us probably picture those volume-dependent sine waves. But thats not how John Stuart Reid

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. A bird in flight is a thing of beauty. Even their takeoffs and landings usually look effortless. But pterodactyls? Well, thats another story. Scientists

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Most of us know we should rein in our energy use. But to be successful, it'd help if we knew the best way to do it. So scientists asked more than 500 peo

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Spotted hyenas grunt and growl. But you know what they're famous for. So what's all the laughing about? Well, field researchers have noticed that groups of hyenas tend to giggle around a kill, while they're waiting for their hunk of meat. Now a study

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Big cats or wolves seem like scaled-up versions of the tabby or terrier sleeping on your sofa. But the proportions do subtly change as animals get larger. For one thing, big animals feet are smaller relative to their bodies than are smaller beasts. B

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Bees bread and butter is flowerstheres no reason they should be able to recognize human faces. But they can. Back in 2005, Arian Dyer at Monash University showed that bees could identify people who they associated who with sugary snacks. But could th

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What do a whale and a frog have in common? According to a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, pound for pound, they sound the same. Sounds fishy? I mean, if you've ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale [whale song], you

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If youve ever had a garden or grown flowers in a window box, youve probably heard that you shouldnt water your plants at high noon because their leaves might scorch. Now a study in a journal called New Phytologist confirms that water droplets can foc

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Stereotypes are usually the last thing to change in the face of contradictory evidence. A case in point is the long held belief that boys are better at mathematics than girls. Well a meta-analysis to be published in the journal Psychological Bulletin

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say you should take the bitter with the sweet. But if you're not a big fan of bitter, chemists have just the loophole for you. Oh, you'll still have

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