This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Its tough to beat watching a spaceship lift off. But for us audio fans, theres another sequence during launch preparation thats awfully compelling. At 12:18 P.M. Eastern t...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute? The carbon molecule known as a buckyball, a member of the fullerene family, can act as a cage for a variety of other chemicals. And now researchers have used one to tra...
Plants are sitting ducks for every hungry herbivore that wanders past. But for some greens, a little grazing is the best thing that can happen. They grow back faster and fuller and make more seeds than they would have if left alone. Now scientists kn...
