SSS 2011-02-22

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? A new development in malaria: Plasmodium vivax, the worlds most common malaria parasite, now infects people previously considered to be resistant. Peter Zimmerman from Cas

SSS 2011-02-28

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? There have been tremendous declines in fertility. The key has been the prevention of unwanted births, really around the globe. John Casterline directs the Initiative in

SSS 2012-04-25

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, Got a minute? Music, film and video game makes face a new online, digital world. And some are testing a revolutionary pricing system: pay what you want. But a new study finds that

SSS 2012-01-25

This is Scientific American's sixty seconds science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It's know that taller people tend to have more jobs with more authority and higher salaries but there is a flip side the more powerful person is th

SSS 2012-03-28

This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. Compounds found in the herb thyme have antibiotic properties. Now scientists have demonstrated that thyme might have a future role in fighting acne. A

SSS 2012-03-26

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? You've probably had the feeling. Your running shoes are pounding the pavementthen suddenly your pain fades away, and you're feeling euphoric. The runner's high

SSS 2012-01-05

This is Scientific American, 60 second science.I'm rose got minutes sit ,stay ,down ,no ,don't need that ,drop it, dogs .We pad them ,we love them ,we talk them. But are they listening, of course they are. Recent researchers found dogs pay attention

SSS 2012-07-31

You've probably heard of peanut or shellfish allergies,but a meat allergy,not as common. Even weird * will might be causing it, tick bites.According to a study in the journal of General Internal Medicine. A few years back, folks started showing up in

SSS 2012-07-23

This is Scientific American 60-second science.I'm Sophie Bushwick.Got a minute? It's not easy being yellow.But as now is face two separated con?? demix which threaten the pluck the fruit off x tables.Fortunately,reseachers have now x banana's DNA,pro

SSS 2012-01-13

This is Scientific America's 60 second science, I'm Sentay Graber, this will just take a minute. Magnifying glass, telescope, tiny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fading it out to find the world's smallest frog.One

SSS 2011-02-10

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Good news for chilly doctorsyou can wear long sleeves with impunity inside hospitals, because University of Colorado researchers find that docs pick up just as much bacter

SSS 2012-04-17

This is Scientific American 60 second Science I am Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? As it ages, white paper turns a distinctive yellow. But why? To find out, scientists artificially aged modern paper to reveal the changes on the molecular level. The re

SSS 2012-04-12

This is Scientific American, 60-second science. I'm Cynthia Graber.This will just take a minute. When an animal faces a predator, its senses go into overdrive. So scientists wondered, could human anxiety be an evolutionary legacy to protect us agains

SSS 2012-04-06

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Cythia Graber, this will just take a minute~ Many Christians give up meat for Lent, a practice that indirectly affectshyenas, believe it or not. In northern Ethiopia, hyenas have become accustomed t

SSS 2012-04-03

This is Scientific American's Sixty Second Science. I am Marryia Decrisdina, got the minute. First Youtube Space Lab contest has anounced its winners, young people entry by creating a short vedio of their idea for experiments to be down in space. I w

SSS 2012-03-14

This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin As voters vacillate among the contenders for the Republican nomination, it may matter less what the candidates say than how they sound when they say it. Because a new study shows that v

SSS 2012-03-08

It sounds like the premise for a bad police drama, maybe NYPD Chimp. But scientists have found that high-ranking chimpanzees can act like cops: intervening to settle public disputes. The study appears in the journal Public Library of Science ONE. In

SSS 2012-06-13

After a hurricane or earthquake, people often band together and cooperate to deal with the recovery. And were not the only species that becomes more cooperative in tough times.Female Yuhina birds in Taiwan usually fight over space in the community ne

SSS 2012-06-11

City kids have smorgasbord of food choices. But they also face food allergies more than do their country cousins. Researchers mapped food allergies in children across the U.S. And they found more cases per capita in areas with high population densiti

SSS 2012-06-01

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Cynthia Craber, this will just take a minute. The biggest risk for breast cancer patients is usually not original tumor, which is removed by surgery. The cancer becomes particularly deadly if it me