This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? How do you do a brain scan on a gorilla. Yeah, yeah, very carefully, right. He sleeps anywhere he wants to, too. But seriously, trying to do an MRI on a gorilla presen...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 2005, Steven Johnson wrote a book called Everything Bad is Good For You. He proposed that popular culture is actually making us smarter. Because thing...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever popped open a jar of the pickled fish, you know that herring like to stick together. Actually, its something they do naturally, even before...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Eating fish can be good medicine. And, according to the U.S. EPA and researchers from Baylor University, fish all over the country are literally stuffed to the gills...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Generally speaking, kids do like their candy. Now scientists say that this sweet tooth may have some basis in biology. Because sugars may help fuel the r...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Understanding all the genes and molecules involved in human disease is quite a challenge. Thats why scientists study model organisms, like flies and worm...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Most of us follow the beat of our own drummer. But it turns out that members of our social networks are great predictors of how well respond to future events. In a s...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Some people are worried that the more we learn about genetics, the closer well get to a day when we can choose all sorts of characteristics for our bab...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Imagine antibiotics that would never lose their punch. New research focuses on drugs that bacteria simply cant resist. Most antibiotics work by killing p...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Seventy percent of all antibiotics in this country go to livestock like pigs and chickens. And concern is growing about drug-resistant bacteria that sp...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. People get malaria from Anopheles mosquitoes that themselves are infected with a protozoan parasite called Plasmodium. The mosquitoes do have immune sy...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. On March 11th, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for a moonshot for energy independence. Hes set up a task force to look into the large-scale product...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. If you get a scratch, your skin can heal itself. But if your car gets scratched, it stays scratched. Scientists at the University of Southern Mississip...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Farmers fertilize their fields to get the maximum meal from their crops. But the effects of these loads of nitrogen and phosphorous extend beyond the field and past...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Conscious planning for the future was thought to be a cognitive behavior unique to humans. Not anymore. Researchers in Sweden have found a zoo chimp th...
