SSS 2011-12-20

material scientists admire spider silk for being lightweight and strong.now another arthropod product is getting into the act insect cuticle,the tough flexible material is inside insect skeleton.researchers at harvard * institute for biological inspi

SSS 2011-12-21

spiciness is chilli pepper's best defense against seed attacking microbes.but not all chillis are hot, because producing that heat comes at a price.so says a study in journal proceeding the royal society b.researchers look at wild chilli populations

SSS 2010-12-24

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Pop-pop! Its so good to see you. How are you? Mans voice: Good, good. How are those knees holding up? And the old ticker? Man: Fine. Cant complain. What m

SSS 2010-12-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. They call it culturomics: the obvious play on the word genomics looks at trends in human thought and culture. But scientists say culturomics has been h

SSS 2010-12-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? As a bitter winter storm rages on the east coast, it's hard to knock being warm-blooded. But what about the metabolic cost of maintaining a high body-temperature? Well,

SSS 2011-01-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Ever been running the treadmill, exhausted, ready to quitbut you're at the 2.9 mile mark, so you run that last 10th to make it an even three? Why do you do it? W

SSS 2011-01-25

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The Chesapeake Bay could get helped by a new antipollution expert: farmed oysters. For decades, the Chesapeake has been plagued by excess nutrients, such

SSS 2011-05-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Whether it's for streaming Netflix or sharing files, we're gobbling up more and more dataand we want it faster. But even shooting data with lasers over fiber-o

SSS 2011-02-18

According to a variety of studies my languages may be providing mental benefits beyond the ability to chat with locals when I travel. Judith Kroll, from Penn State University, discussed findings from a number of her labs papers on February 18th at a

SSS 2011-06-29

You are opening ceremony of the London Nobel Loyal meeting included the panel discussion on global health featuring Bill Gates. Yeah, this is to say about Obama research funding priorities. Virtually, for the disease serve the rich, aha, it basic mai

SSS 2012-06-07

Sometimes women and men break a nail working on a tough task. Because our keratin claws are no match for the club-like appendages of a critter called the peacock mantis shrimp. They can hammer through crab exoskeletons and even mollusk shells to find

SSS 2012-06-05

This is Scientific American's 60 seconds science. I'm Kellen Horgon. This will just take a minute. Have you ever wondered what happens to mosquitos in the rain, a raindrop is like 15 times heavier than those little suckers. So getting hit by one, he'

SSS 2012-06-04

This is Scientific Americans 60 second science, I am John Matson. Were just hours away from the last transit of Venus until the year 2117. A transit is when a planet passes in front of the sun, revealing itself as a tiny black dot on the suns face. T

SSS 2012-05-11

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? One family generally dines on Chinese takeout while their neighbors eat home-cooked meatloaf. You say potato, I say potahto. And humans arent the only primate species

SSS 2012-01-18

True to their names, boa constrictors squeeze the life out of their prey. But how dose a boa know its enough for a rat? The snake listens, for a heart beat. When it stops, thats a cue to let go, according to a study in the Journal biology letters. Re

SSS 2012-01-19

On election day, where do you vote? If its in a church, you might be inclined to vote more conservatively than if you cast your ballot at a school or government building. Thats according to reserch published in the international journal for the psych

SSS 2012-02-01

It's tough to be a machine in the desert. Particles of dirty sands walk their way in to moving parts where they break turbine's motors pipes on other equipment.To avoid the costly warranty, researches are taking lessons from a desert native, the yell

SSS 2012-02-02

This is scientific American sixty seconds sicience. I am Cynthia Graber.That's all just take a minute.There is an easy way to acarch people to take stairs to stand elevator put a sign to remind them to. Study have found that science works but those e

SSS 2012-02-17

This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? In science, citations are gold. A journal article that gets cited a lot is usually considered a valuable piece of work. Now comes a study claiming that the number of times

AP 2011-08-08

1. A tense day on the campus of Virginia Tech. It was put under a lockdown this morning after three children attending a summer camp in the campus, reported seeing a man holding something that looked like a gun. 2. Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36