This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. 'Tis the season when many of us go on a seafood diet: we see food and we eat it. But if you want to avoid packing on the pounds, a new study suggests tha...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Imagine climbing diamond mountains, or hiking around the graphite shores of a lake of tar. Sound a little sci-fi? Well a new discovery suggests planets like that...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Seeing may be believing. But according to a new study -Excuse me, a bathroom? -Sorry? -Where, bathroom? -Boat room? Oh bathroom, on the left. Where was I...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Think about flying and you no doubt think about air--the wind in your face, the wind at your back, the wind beneath your wings. Now physicists note that li...
When they wheel you into the operating room, climate change is probably the last thing on your mind. But maybe it should be on your anesthesiologist's mind. Because the gases used to knock you out contribute to global warming. Researchers, including...
Theyre everyones worst nightmare when it comes to swimming in the ocean: great white sharks. Thats despite the fact that the number of fatal shark attacks annually can usually be counted on the fingers of one still attached hand. But a new study find...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Life on earth requires six basic ingredientscarbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus. Those six elements are the building blocks for DNA and R...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. To many who stare up at the heavens, the stars may seem simply uncountable. Of course that's not the attitude of astronomers. But they've made a discov...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The November 26th issue of the journal Science included a study showing that the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago allowed puny mammals to get really...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? For some reason, every year a few dozen runners dash from southern Italy all the way to the North Cape of Norway, in what's called the TransEurope-FootRace. It takes abo...