SSS 2008-10-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Spending your life hanging out at the seaside might sound like easy living. But for marine mussels, a day at the shore is no walk on the beach. Clinging

SSS 2008-09-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? While Im talking, youre not just passively listening. Your brain is also busy at work, guessing the next word that I will savor before I actually speak it. You thought

SSS 2008-06-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? At a crowded party, seems like you will be hard to hear the person you are talking to over all the clinking glasses, the chatter, the laughter but somehow your

SSS 2009-04-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Coffee before biking? You may have to stop on the side of the road sooner, but new research suggests that caffeine can help you get more bang from your w

SSS 2009-02-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Indiana Jones (I hate snakesI hate em!) would have totally despised a snake that lived some 60 million years ago. Because researchers working in Colombia have found th

SSS 2009-10-08

Homes are rising on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. No, it's not a return of Hoovervilles thanks to the Great Recession. These are solar homes competing in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, which starts October 8. From Cornell Un

SSS 2009-10-02

When there are Nobel prizes there are Ig Nobel prizes, which were handed out at Harvard on October 1st. The awards honor research that makes people laugh and then makes them think. Among this years winners: The physics prize went to a study of why pr

SSS 2008-06-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber.This'll just take a minute. On earth, snow crystals as we all know, form from frozen water. But scientists believe there're also flakes that fall on Mercury, and they're made of iro

SSS 2008-12-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? [Radio sound:] Northeast 480 you are cleared for landing, Northeast 480 you are cleared for landing. That same radar technology that guides aircraft and tracks hurrica

SSS 2008-12-11

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Finally, science has something you can give people that really does help them lose weight: money. Rewarding dieters with a few hundred dollars is effective for promoti

SSS 2009-03-11

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

SSS 2008-08-01

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar panels typically convert sunlight into electricity or heat. But photosynthetic vegetation converts sunlight into chemical energy. Now M.I.T.s Dan

SSS 2008-03-06

This is scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mirskey. Got a minute? The lure of gold can be electric to some people even though the element is chemically inert on the large scale. But the researchers from Georgia Tech report that down at

SSS 2009-07-08

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. Sex might seem like one of those little gifts from evolution. But its pretty inefficient from an evolutionary perspective. Itd be much easier to reprod

SSS 2009-05-06

This is scientific American 60 second science. Im Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. When eBay first came onto the scene more than a decade ago, archaeologists were petrified. Easily buying and selling antiquities online might increase the l

科学美国人60秒 SSS 可穿戴设备和可拉伸电池更配哦

Engineers Build Bendy Batteries for Wearables可穿戴设备和可拉伸电池更配哦 The flat lithium ion batteries that power smartwatches are built by stacking the battery components: positive and negative electrodes, current collectors and a se

科学美国人60秒 SSS Old Records Help Resurrect Historic Quake

Old Records Help Resurrect Historic Quake 旧文件再现史上大地震 Ninety-nine years ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Puerto Rico. It also caused a tsunami that swept through coastal towns. All told, the shaking and flooding killed more than

科学美国人60秒 SSS Widening the Suez Canal Ushers In Underwater Invaders

Widening the Suez Canal Ushers In Underwater Invaders 苏伊士运河对地中海水下物种的侵害 The Mediterranean Sea is home to some 17,000 native species. But it's also home to a growing number of non-native species: 756 at last count. 756 m

科学美国人60秒 SSS Flying Through a Corpse's Clues

Flying Through a Corpse's Clues 能帮法医验尸的苍蝇 As soon as a person dies, decomposition begins. And the first visitors arrive. Within five to fifteen minutes of death, blow flies or other insects begin to colonize the body. Rabi Musah, an

科学美国人60秒 SSS The Arctic's Anti-Snowball Snowball Effect

The Arctic's Anti-Snowball Snowball Effect 北极的反雪球效应 Last Christmas, Santa Claus must have been loading his sleigh in a t-shirt and shorts. Temperatures at the North Pole crept up toward the freezing point when they should have been mi