SSS 2009-05-05

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Some names never seem to go out of style, like David or Emily. Some never really catch on. Not many girls are named Laurel, even fewer are named Lauryl S

SSS 2009-06-03

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Seismologists spend a lot of time listening to the earth. Ocean acoustic monitors have been providing information on the earths vibrations since the 1930

SSS 2009-03-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson. This will just take a minute. Ticking clock indeed. Already its time to turn clocks forward one hour this Sunday morning, March 8th. Two years ago Congress ordered Daylight Savi

SSS 2010-11-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If you've ever had to pick up and carry a tired child through the mall, you know that walking sometimes tuckers out the toddlers. Now scientists think th

SSS 2010-11-03

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Maybe your dad said, The harder you work for something, the more youll appreciate it. Well, father really did know best, because a new study finds that the

SSS 2009-01-09

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Have you ever turned off your lights and heard [mosquito buzz]? To you its a sound that signals bites in the night. But to a male mosquito its a love son

SSS 2010-08-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute Declining frog populations are considered an indicator of environmental damage. But new research finds that frogs might be doing even worse than we thou

SSS 2010-07-13

Some bacteria have adapted to super cold environments for millions of years. And scientists have isolated some of the essential genes that allow bacteria to tolerate their harsh living conditionsbecause these same genes might help in the creation of

SSS 2010-10-06

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the University of Delawares Richard Heck, Purdues Ei-ichi Negishi and Hokkaido Universitys Akira Suzuki for their work in develop

SSS 2010-09-15

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Glaciers slowly grind their way over mountains and plains, moving immense boulders and carving out fjords. Thats true in temperate regions, where glacier

SSS 2010-04-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? A direct effect on human health related to climate change is the likely increase in infectious diseases transmitted by insects or through contaminated water. In the Marc

SSS 2010-06-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its refreshing. Its invigorating. And it leaves you feeling truly alive. No, Im not talking about a cold shower or a fruit smoothie with a mochachino ch

SSS 2010-06-03

This is Scientific America's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Most of us dont think twice about getting behind the wheel even for short hops to pick up some milk. And thats not just because cars are convenient, or b

SSS 2011-10-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Bruce Beutler at the Scripps Research Institute in California, Jules Hoffmann at the French National Center for Sc

SSS 2011-06-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. How many times has it happened to you: you're sitting around watching a rerun of Friends and you think: Man, if only I could catch a whiff of that hazeln

SSS 2011-09-08

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Thars gold in them thar hillsand we may have meteorites to thank. Because it appears that a rain of meteors nearly 4 billion years ago peppered the Earths

SSS 2011-07-05

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin in the windthe solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining sola

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 2012-07-06

This is scientific American-60 second science,I'm Evelyn Lamb.Got a minute? In our dark of night, he is like one of the newest cosmology discoveries to compound Hubble Telescope.A massive entry galaxy cluster.The air fly covers a feeling normal galxy

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