This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? You know what fiber's good forto keep things moving smoothly downstairs. But it's not just for staying regular. Fiber can boost the number of beneficial bacter...
For many people summer equals tomatoes. Thats when folks can get their hands on gorgeous heirloom and traditional varieties, full of tomatoey flavor. Such tomatoes provide a stark contrast to year-round supermarket ones, famous for tasting like, well...
Every time you inhale, oxygen passes from your windpipe to your lungs and on into your bloodstream. But what if your windpipe was blocked? Getting the gas straight to your blood could save your life. Wait, put down that syringea large air bubble in a...
A planet sees what we see, a planet sees light. Danel ** director of NANA center for planet boi-sciences at tele university, and the author of a new book, what a planet knows?. so he takes someone who is completely blind and by observe in some way gi...
Remember those educational cassettes that youd supposedly learn from overnight? Well, scientific evidence says they're bunkunless you listen to them while youre up during the night, that is. But if youre actually sleeping and you play something that...
To make a big impression, youve got to grin and bare ityour array of teeth, that is. Because people gazing at a crowd find it easier to spot someone with a toothy facial expression, whether its a happy smile or an angry snarl, than someone with a tig...
This is Scientific American, 60-second science. I'm Evelyn Lamb. Got a minute? That is Generation Zero of DarwinTunes. It is a website researchers are using to study how listener preferences affect the evolution of music. A new study claims that the...
This is Scientific American 60 Seconds. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. In Europe and the near east, people went from being mobile hunter gathers to more settled agriculture way of life. But in Africa, no matters domesticated animals...
Dogs aren't just man's best friend. Previous studies have shown that kids with dogs are less likely to develop asthma. Now new studies may show how. For those (from) mice it applied was. The work was presented at the meeting of the American Society f...
Deer tick and Lime disease go hand in hand in some places but you can't always put blame on Bambi. Because new research shows the incidence of Lime disease tracks less with the abundance of deer than those with disappearance of foxes. The study is in...
Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle. Their need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna, but they also need to make sure that their animal assistants don't digest the very seeds they are meant...
Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle: They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna, but they also need to make sure that their animal asssistants don't digest the very seeds that are meant...
After a hurricane or earthquake, people often band together and cooperate to deal with the recovery. And were not the only species that becomes more cooperative in tough times.Female Yuhina birds in Taiwan usually fight over space in the community ne...
In the day of the dinosaur, insects had wingspans of nearly 2.5 feet. So why are today's bugs so puny? According to researchers at U.C. Santa Cruz, we may have birds and bats to thank. Their concludes appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
City kids have smorgasbord of food choices. But they also face food allergies more than do their country cousins. Researchers mapped food allergies in children across the U.S. And they found more cases per capita in areas with high population densiti...
