This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? If you're worried about news reports of West Nile virus, you might want to go take a census of the birds in your backyard. Because certain species of birds actually...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It turns out that maybe speciation is, too. Because a study in the October 2nd issue of Nature sugges...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three men who revolutionized molecular life science, Japans Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien. They dev...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The 2008 Nobel Prize in physics goes to an American and two Japanese scientists for work related to symmetry in particle physics. In the early 1960s, Yoichiro Nambu of...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Germanys Harald zur Hausen and Frances Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded October 6th. Barre-Sin...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? When we feel like we don't have command of our own fate, our brains often invent patterns that offer a sense of self-control. Some folks knock on wood or step over c...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? This presidential election will likely have a huge effect on health care. But it also will probably have a direct effect on public health. Because theres a higher risk...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. So Im having dinner with my two-year-old son. When he clears his plate, he says to me, Get in the kitchen. I want more. Get in the kitchen, I want more?...
