This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mersky. Got a minute? Heres why its time for instant replay in major league baseball. Dont worry, this is a technology story. Four times within a week recently, what were clearly home runs acco...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. For generations, nearly all medical research was done on men. And the assumption was that whats true for men is true for women. Now of course we know tha...
This Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that older folks benefit from spending time with young people. And thats not just an excuse to stick grandma at the kids table at Thanksgiving. Now...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hamterture, got a minute? What's sixteen feet tall and 9,550 years old? Its the world's oldest tree. The worn and weathered spruce grows in Sweden's windswept tundra. But, until recently, wel...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science.I am Steve Mersky, got a minute? Phoenix has landed! Phoenix has landed! Welcome to the northern plains of Mars. That was the Jet Propulsion Laboratorys Richard Kornfeld, Sunday at 7:53pm eastern time, ac...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. I had a roommate who couldnt sleep unless it was pitch dark, so she wore a face mask to bed. But shed gotten it from an airline, so one of the eye patches...
This is Scientific America's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Its hot to research life in extreme environments. There are organisms that thrive in boiling hot thermal vents and in toxic stews. These extremophiles, as...
This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? The yeast Candida albicans ekes out a quiet living in our gut. But its a tough life. It faces acids and enzymes, and the immune system always bullies invaders....
This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. If theres anything better than a fresh, ripe, tomato, its a gigantic fresh, ripe tomato. And thanks to a couple of mutations, thats exactly what we all enj...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. If youve ever wanted to explore the universe, your dream is now as close as your keyboard. Because last week, Microsoft unveiled its online WorldWide T...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Heres one space mission that is definitely going to be unmannedNASA is going to the sun. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is buildi...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I am Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. If youre a fan of bad movies, and even if youre not, you might remember the summer thriller Snakes on a Plane. In it, gangsters attempt to take down a plane...
This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. With gas prices at an all-time high, and expected to climb higher, seems people are keenly aware of what it costs to drive from here to there. But a study...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Robin Williams thought that the platypus was cobbled together by an inebriated deity: Lets take a beaver. Lets put on a ducks bill. Now we know how weird the platypus is...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Olive oil producers generally guess the best time to harvest their olives by checking the fruits color. The olive has to hit that perfect spot where they...
