This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Last month the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Hitting your mid-forties? Chances are you are feeling down but don't hang your head. You are just at the bottom of life's U shaped path of happiness. You might not...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When you have an itch nothing feels better than a good scratch. Now scientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center think they know why. Th...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. When is an ant like a piece of fruit? When its infected by a parasite. Researchers affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute discovered t...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Chelsea Wald. Got a minute? Vinaigrette dressing: when you shake it little vinegar droplets scatter through the oil, but when you put it down, the droplets merge and the dressing separates. That's...
This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Air pollution is bad for our health, but scientists say we don't know much about the long-term effects. So researchers in Canada and the Netherlands dec...
