SSS 2008-02-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Last month the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to

SSS 2009-07-20

This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute？ Its the 40th anniversary of the first humans setting foot on the moon. Last August, I interviewed one of them, Buzz Aldrin, in the lobby of a hotel he was staying at in

SSS 2009-07-17

transcript This is Scientific Ameicans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. Got a minute? Horse racing is a sport that's 200 years old. And a day at the track is much more exciting now than it was back then. That's because horses are faster than they

SSS 2009-07-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It sounds like the title to a Rudyard Kipling tale: how the turtle got its shell. But its actually a question that has puzzled scientists. After all, n

SSS 2009-04-07

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. The heart-stopping news from Stockholm is that the heart never stopsgrowing, that is. Because researchers have shown that the human heart continues to pr

SSS 2009-03-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. On March 11th, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for a moonshot for energy independence. Hes set up a task force to look into the large-scale product

SSS 2010-12-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Seeing may be believing. But according to a new study -Excuse me, a bathroom? -Sorry? -Where, bathroom? -Boat room? Oh bathroom, on the left. Where was I

SSS 2010-11-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? One of the dreams of biomedical scientists is to be able to transform adult cells into other kinds of cells. And thus avoid some of the ethical concerns of working with

SSS 2009-02-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes you want something so badly it hurts, usually something that someone else has. Now a report in the journal Science shows that the agony of envy

SSS 2009-02-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If you have a dog, you know you gotta walk it. But do you know how it walks? Well, if you have no idea which foot Fido puts forward when, youre in good c

SSS 2009-01-19

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

SSS 2009-01-14

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

SSS 2009-01-13

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

SSS 2010-10-13

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Blackjack, slot machines, good ol Texas holdem. People love to gamble. And were not the only ones. A new study shows that pigeons will also pass up a sure

SSS 2010-09-13

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? On September 10th we reported that people will pay more for snacks within reach. Now, another finding for the shopping science fileswhen you're trying to decide

SSS 2010-09-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Bookshops and DVD stores are closing up. No surprise, because who would pay more at the store when you can get it cheaper online? Well, a bunch of Caltech unde

SSS 2010-06-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. July is coming. Its a time to fire up the barbecue, hit the beaches and watch the fireworks. Its definitely not a time to be in the hospital. Because fa

SSS 2011-10-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. A new archaeological find may signify one of the great leaps in human cultural and cognitive history. Because researchers have discovered a 100,000-yea

SSS 2011-11-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Einstein, Newton and many other legendary scientists did groundbreaking work in their 20s. But if your hair has gone gray and no Nobel seems likely, do

SSS 2011-10-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? (The) most obvious effect of birth control pills is, well...birth control. But the pill may have subtler effects, too. Like influencing which guy a woman goes