SSS 2011-03-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. This will just take a minute. Pregnant women shouldn't drink. It's become gospel, because of the danger of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Alcohol can disturb the normal development

SSS 2011-07-20

This is Scientific American 60-second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Hey, four eyes. Let playground tongue more accurate when it applied Anableps anableps, a fish related to the garbe. It lives in the blackish water of mangoswan i

SSS 2011-07-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. After water, tea is the world's most popular drink. Now three New York City high school students have discovered what maybe a bruing scandal because th

SSS 2011-10-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The human genome was sequenced, and in the process of moving that forward the technology that was developed was incredible. And because of their efforts in human genome,

SSS 2012-06-29

This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? You know what fiber's good forto keep things moving smoothly downstairs. But it's not just for staying regular. Fiber can boost the number of beneficial bacter

SSS 2012-01-10

Jeanne Baret was passionate about science, so passionate that in the 1760s the French women disguised herself as a man. She hide her true identity to accompany her lover, Bach Philibert Commerson on the first friendship to sail around the world. At t

SSS 2012-07-24

This is Scientific American 60-second science.I'm Innmi Craft.Got a minute? Here's one way bites my get there next meal by ease dropping on flies having sex.That's eat a lot of seemingly undetectable flies.To find out how the winged memers find the i

SSS 2010-12-06

When they wheel you into the operating room, climate change is probably the last thing on your mind. But maybe it should be on your anesthesiologist's mind. Because the gases used to knock you out contribute to global warming. Researchers, including

SSS 2011-11-16

Ever wander through a supermarket and past the open refrigerated cases that house cream cheese, butter and OJ? The refrigerated shelves are protected by jets of air that blow across the front. These jets form an air shield to keep the warm air out. T

SSS 2011-05-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? One way advertisers convince us to buy something is to remind us that we've enjoyed their product before. But unfortunately, we can have fond memories of a pro

SSS 2011-09-07

This is Scientific Americans 60-SecondScience. Im Steve Mirsky. This will just take a minute. Economics:supply and demand. Thats Father Guido Sarducci... Thats it. sharing theentirety of the economics course at his Five-Minute-University. Of course,

SSS 2011-09-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science.I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Hi. Im running. Im also telling some ofmy stem cells what to do right now. Well, I probably am, based on a new study with mice. We have what are called mesenchymal stemce

SSS 2011-08-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? When a healthy rat smells a cat, it flees. But rats infected with the Toxoplasma brain parasite actually follow cat odors, often presumably to their doom, red in tooth a

SSS 2011-07-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? At the recent Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 2009 chemistry laureate Thomas Steitz recalled that at one institution in the 60s, he saw how informal scientific collaborat

SSS 2011-03-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? During the 2008 presidential election, the Internet became a giant rumor mill. For example, there were the viral e-mails claiming Barack Obama's birth certific

SSS 2012-07-04

yeah,you'd better talk about this thing.Now now now look hero be you.You can give a little pity pig let them out three senses to a wood calls like underprevely children drug.I was reading here just other day when the some were like ball hundred meeti

SSS 2012-04-04

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Steve Mirsky, got a minute? Thirty percent of the teachers around the country teaching physics either dont have a degree in physics or dont have a minor in physics. Philip DiStefano, chancellor of t

SSS 2012-03-13

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I'm Steve Mursky, Got a minute? The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. today was nearly $3.78 per gallon. But why do we calculate fuel expenditure in dollars per gallon? Wouldnt a more realist

SSS 2012-06-06

Some dinosaurs were really huge, and now we may have a better way to estimate just how heavy these giants were. Researchers have developed a method to weigh dinosaurs based on laser scans of their skeletons. The study is in the journal Biology Letter

SSS 2012-03-01

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? Tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins each year. It's not just a tragic abuse of the animals, It's bad business. They're basically swimming dollar signs, wh