This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Elephants are smart, social animals. And now we know that they can organize themselves into teams to accomplish tasks. A research team that included re...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? During the 2008 presidential election, the Internet became a giant rumor mill. For example, there were the viral e-mails claiming Barack Obama's birth certific...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The numbers of fish and other ocean life have dropped dramatically in the past few decades. That's because of commercial overfishing, and something cal...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Wine can help keep conversation flowing at a dinner party. And now it looks like that wine may aid in materials science as well. Japanese researchers dis...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? The National Sleep Foundation released the results of its annual sleep poll today, where they surveyed more than 1,500 people between the ages of 13 and 64. Here a...
Every villain has his Achilles' heel. And microscopic scoundrels are no exception. The challenge for those who wish to ward off microbial bad guys is to identify that weak spot. Now, scientists studying the toxoplasmosis parasite think they've done j...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that love is blind. And that's probably for the best. Because a new study shows that people who greatly idealize their spouses have the happiest...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Popular accounts of the Large Hadron Collider often say its trying to approximate the conditions at the Big Bang. One of the things thats different is this is a much simpl...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? There have been tremendous declines in fertility. The key has been the prevention of unwanted births, really around the globe. John Casterline directs the Initiative in...
I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-beingalternative that is to GDP, on which the world runs. So said John Sulston at the AAAS meeting in Washington on Februar...
