Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber.This will just take a minute. Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have been able to send information ahead of particle beams racing at nearly the speed of li

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SSS 2008-02-26

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Being a big fish in a small pond is more likely to get you noticed. Thats good news if you are, say, the best pitcher in your little league division, but

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SSS 2008-02-27

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Earlier this month, NASA announced that an MIT Physics professor will lead a team of scientists on a new mission. The objective: build a giant radio telescope on the

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SSS 2008-02-28

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The history of science is inextricably linked to the Galapagos and its influence on Darwin. In 2001, an oil tanker hit a reef in the Galapagos Islands an

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SSS 2008-02-29

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. Next time you are shoveling snow off your walk, don't blame the weatherman, blame bacteria. Because an international team of scientists has found that micr

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SSS 2008-01-22

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science.I'm Karen Hopkin .This will just take a minute. When you hear things like, human DNA differs from chimp DNA by only a couple percent. You cant help but wonder. How can that be? How can so few changes ma

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SSS 2008-01-23

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mersky. Got a minute? Its the kind of thing we can look forward to more in the coming years: Personalized drug regimens based on our individual DNA. The example of this new kind of Personaliz

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SSS 2008-01-24

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Most school kids know that snakes can see with their noses, Vipers in particular have these organs on their noggins that allow them to see heat which he

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SSS 2008-01-25

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science, I'm Chelsea Wald. Got a minute? Remember the good old days when we understood our solar system? Then we found out Pluto wasn't a planet. And now a new study puts comets in question. The data come from

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SSS 2008-01-28

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. Our ears are highly attuned to sounds in the world around us. Its not just the frequency of the sound itself. There are also subtle differences and shift

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SSS 2008-01-29

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mersky, got a minute? Pay attention, retailers. For a fatter buttom line, you might wanna have some hunks and hotties on hand. That's what Jennifer Argo and her colleagues say. she teaches bu

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SSS 2008-01-30

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Every expecting mother gets asked the question: boy or girl? For mammals like us, its an easy call. Two X chromosomes you get pink booties. X and a Y you g

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SSS 2008-03-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. You've probably take you depth perception for granted. It allows you to easily judge distances. Each eye sends a different signal to the brain, and the

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SSS 2008-07-31

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Tricky cyclists in the Tour de France sometimes cheat by upping their red blood cell count for those tough stretches through the Alps. But researchers at Calif

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SSS 2008-06-19

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Physicists study all kinds of curious things,from the missing matter in the universe to the strange behavior of electrons ,but none of this is quite as cu

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SSS 2008-06-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. As you probably know, viruses can jump from animals to people, we've gotten flu from birds and pigs, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is thought to ha

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SSS 2008-06-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? On June 4th we told you about iron snowflakes on Mercury. Today we have some radical news about the atmosphere of Venus. Literally, a radical is a molecule that reacts e

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SSS 2008-06-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science.I'm Karren Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Location, location, location. We all know it's true of real estate. But it may also apply to the ballot box. Because a team of American researchers has foun

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SSS 2008-06-25

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirskey. Got a minute? That morning coffee is just the thing to get the brain in gear and the body moving. But it turns out that just the aroma of coffee also gets some of our genes up and at

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SSS 2008-06-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Christopher Intagliata.Got a minute? Ten years ago, MySpace did not exist,neither did Facebook. Just one site called 6 Degrees.com dominated the online social networking market. But soon, a bunch

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