This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The search for alternative fuels to gasoline has led to surprising possibilities, for instance, the waste oil for making French fries. But one of the most unusual alterna...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Every expecting mother gets asked the question: boy or girl? For mammals like us, its an easy call. Two X chromosomes you get pink booties. X and a Y you g...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mersky, got a minute? Pay attention, retailers. For a fatter buttom line, you might wanna have some hunks and hotties on hand. That's what Jennifer Argo and her colleagues say. she teaches bu...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. Our ears are highly attuned to sounds in the world around us. Its not just the frequency of the sound itself. There are also subtle differences and shift...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science, I'm Chelsea Wald. Got a minute? Remember the good old days when we understood our solar system? Then we found out Pluto wasn't a planet. And now a new study puts comets in question. The data come from...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Most school kids know that snakes can see with their noses, Vipers in particular have these organs on their noggins that allow them to see heat which he...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mersky. Got a minute? Its the kind of thing we can look forward to more in the coming years: Personalized drug regimens based on our individual DNA. The example of this new kind of Personaliz...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science.I'm Karen Hopkin .This will just take a minute. When you hear things like, human DNA differs from chimp DNA by only a couple percent. You cant help but wonder. How can that be? How can so few changes ma...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Gonna watch the NFL Conference Championship games on Sunday? Youll see evidence for a new finding: aggression is rewarding. In what scientists from Vanderbilt University...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber . This'll just take a minute. You think we enjoy something based on its intrinsic qualities. Food should taste good because its molecules tickle our tongues. But it's much more compl...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin . This'll just take a minute. If I ask you to picture someone who recycles, you might come up with an image of an idealistic young nature lover, someone who has the time and energy to...
