SSS 2011-06-22

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Saliva contains many useful components: lubricants, enzymes for breaking down food and now compounds that can reveal a persons age. Thats according to a

SSS 2011-03-29

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? To keep your car purring, you have to change the oil. Such maintenance produces eight billion gallons of used motor oil annually. Some waste oil does get re-refined to pro

SSS 2011-07-26

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Antibiotics dont work against viruses, but doctors sometimes give antibiotics to patients who have what turns out to be a viral infection, which adds to

SSS 2011-07-28

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Nothing says summer like ants. Theyre at your picnics, on your porch, why theres one crawling up your leg right now. Well, now its your chance to turn the

SSS 2011-10-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? With the loss of these one, two, maybe 10 million bat individuals in these populations, what are the implications? Bats in the U.S. are being plagued by a fungal conditi

SSS 2011-11-25

Here is some thanksgiving tips food and safety expert Ben Chatman in North Carolina State University. First, do not wash the turkey, which***. The water splashing off a portroy can toss bacteria around your entire food preparation area. Two, s** is t

SSS 2011-11-22

Having a high IQ may have its drawbacks: a new study finds that highly intelligent children are more likely to try illegal drugs in their teenage and adult years. The work is published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. An ongoing s

SSS 2011-08-23

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? To be honest with you, I didnt feel a thing. But many other Scientific American staffers felt the shaking a few minutes before 2 P.M. Eastern time. After checking Twitter

SSS 2011-09-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? Out in space, NASA's Kepler mission keeps watch on more than 150,000 stars. The telescope's job is to see if those stars dim ever so slightlybecause of the presence of an

SSS 2012-06-26

A planet sees what we see, a planet sees light. Danel ** director of NANA center for planet boi-sciences at tele university, and the author of a new book, what a planet knows?. so he takes someone who is completely blind and by observe in some way gi

SSS 2010-12-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. 'Tis the season when many of us go on a seafood diet: we see food and we eat it. But if you want to avoid packing on the pounds, a new study suggests tha

SSS 2011-10-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Believe it or not, violence has been in decline for long stretches of time. And today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. Harvard

SSS 2011-10-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Amy Kraft. Got a minute? Over the course of this campaign... A lot of people watch political debates on TV. Which means great opportunities for advertisers. But an ad for an island getaway or exoti

SSS 2011-10-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Daniel Schechtman of the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in Haifa. Schechtman discovered what are called quasicrystals.

SSS 2011-10-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Brian Schmidt at the Australian National Lab and Adam Reiss at Johns Hopki

SSS 2011-09-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute? When it came to surviving freezing weather, mammoths relied on more than their woolly coats: even their blood was specially adapted to let them thrive in chilly clime

SSS 2011-05-10

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? One way advertisers convince us to buy something is to remind us that weve enjoyed their product before. But unfortunately, we can have fond memories of a produc

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2016-2-4

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