This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? February 28th is International Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, according to practitioner Dan Meyer, who recently demonstrated the technique at the AAAS meeting in Chic...
（A segment of President Obamas speech to a joint session of Congress on February 24th dealing with energy and basic research:） We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century. And yet, it is Chin...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. They say that money cant buy happiness. Ryan Howell believes that it cansometimes. Howell is a researcher at San Francisco State University. He thought...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Angry or upset? Try picking up a pen. According to psychologist Matthew Lieberman, most people don't think of writing as a way to calm down. When you look at the bra...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Were on the verge of finding out how frequently habitable planets occur in the universe. That was astronomer Alan Boss at the AAAS meeting on February 14th. And I thin...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Creationists often publish lists of a few dozen scientists who doubt Darwin. So in 2003, the National Center for Science Education put together a list of 200 scientist...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Time to bring back the Office of Technology Assessment. The OTA was created in 1972 to provide Congress with an objective analysis of complex scientific and technologi...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Future cosmologists will get the universe all wrong, said Arizona States Lawrence Krauss at the AAAS Meeting on February 16th: All of the pillars of the big bang will...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Even monkeys know when theyre getting a bad deal, said primatologist Frans de Waal at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Expectant moms can have very different ideas when it comes to where they plan to have their babies. Some women even choose to give birth in a warm tub of...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes you want something so badly it hurts, usually something that someone else has. Now a report in the journal Science shows that the agony of envy...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? February 12th is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. But theyre linked by something else, too. Before Darwin, natural philosophers held to a poin...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson . Got a minute? The lure of gambling clearly comes from the chance of winning. But how exciting is it to almost win? A study in the February 12th issue of the journal Neuron look...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Heres a novel potential public health measure against the flukick up the humidity. The cold, dry months of winter signal the start of flu season. But previous resear...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. In the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, the star answers game show questions correctly based on his life experiences. At least one right answer, however,...
