This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Astronomers have discovered a star thats running away from home. The star is speeding away at a blistering 2.6 million kilometers an hour, apparently after being cast out...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirskey, Got a minute? Here is another reason to stop global warming to keep the Burmese pythons in Florida. Burmese pythons have been turning up in south Florida in recent years. Perhaps you...
This is scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mirskey. Got a minute? The lure of gold can be electric to some people even though the element is chemically inert on the large scale. But the researchers from Georgia Tech report that down at...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Are smarter people drown to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation cre...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For worse or for better, humans are changing the course of evolution. On February 26, we talked about how fishing practices may be driving the evolution of...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Psych, I'm Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? While at Stanford in the mid-1960s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey started adding a peculiar ingredient to his home-cooked venison stew--LSD. N...
