This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I am Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Losing weight is no walk in the park. (Although a walk in the park wouldnt hurt). Seems no matter what diet you try, those stubborn love handles just wont g...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Biologists often attempt to construct a genealogy that shows the relationships of all life on earth. One well-accepted effort compares the nucleic acid sequences that cod...
Podcast is sponsored from the People of American Chemistry who provide the plastics, medicines and innovations that make life modern. Learn more at americanchemistry.com. This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll ju...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science,I am Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Some people lie through their teeth, some lie about their teeth. Our early human cousins seem to have lied with their teeth. Or they at least misled scienti...
This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. The Taliban destroyed international treasures when they wrecked the ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistans Bamiyan region. But new treasures have now bee...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Mozart was a genius. Duke Ellington, genius. Ringo Starr? Well, Ringo may be smarter than you think. Because a new study from Stockholm shows that people w...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Chirisopher Intagliata, got a minute? But mum, that's not fair! sound familiar? Even as children we hate getting gypped, whether it's fewer slices of pizza or lousy presents from Santa. More surpri...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Adam Hinterthuer, got a minute? If a train heading east leaves Chicago at noon, and a train heading west leaves New York an hour later, would that make you any better at math? New evidence says No...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Considering getting pregnant and want to influence whether you have a boy or a girl? According to new research published in the Proceedings of the Roya...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Shakespeare once said: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And that is true today as it was 400 years ago. What's different now, though, is th...