This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? One of the things that amazed me was when we brought business people back to say, What dont we teach you in school, these were physicists who became business people. We di...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Landfills produce methanewhich can be valuable as an energy source. But scientists haven't known why landfills make so much methane. The solid waste in...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When you hear about asteroids close to the Earth, you probably have visions of collisions and extinctions and a post apocalyptic future or of brave space c...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar cells convert sunlight to electricity. But they don't take advantage of all that solar heat, thereby missing out on the majority of the solar ene...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? A rolling stone gathers no moss. But a salamander embryo can attract algae inside its tissues and cells. This intimate co-habitationthe first ever seen between algae and a...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say you should take the bitter with the sweet. But if you're not a big fan of bitter, chemists have just the loophole for you. Oh, you'll still have...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its been nearly 20 years since astronomers first identified a planet outside our solar system. More than 500 exoplanets have been discovered since then, ye...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. 2011 is the International Year of Chemistry. So scientists at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim raised a glass. (Or a beak...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? To keep your car purring, you have to change the oil. Such maintenance produces eight billion gallons of used motor oil annually. Some waste oil does get re-refined to pro...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Airplane manufacturers have been changing over from aluminum to advanced composite materials. These lighter, stronger composites are made of fibers of...
