This is Scientific Americans 60-SecondScience. Im John Matson, got a minute? Say you need a diamond. You could go downto the jeweler, or you could put some carbon deep underground and let it sitfor a couple billion years. Or you could hop in a starsh...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Rivers today have high muddy banks, sandbars and bends. But they didnt always look that way because it wasnt until the evolution of tree-like plants, some 330 mi...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? To be honest with you, I didnt feel a thing. But many other Scientific American staffers felt the shaking a few minutes before 2 P.M. Eastern time. After checking Twitter...
Most large animals have to chew food extensively and form it into a mushy ball that's easy to swallow. Cooking makes a huge differenceit softens the food and dramatically reduces eating time. Researchers calculated that if we lived like our non-cooki...
Some graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathor STEMonly do research, under the guidance of a mentor. Other STEM grad students also have teaching responsibilities, for example, instructing undergrads or local high schoolers. Now...
This is Scientific Americans 60-SecondScience. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The traveling salesman problem is afavorite math conundrum: if a salesman has to visit a bunch of cities, how doyou get him to all of them once via the shortest possible ro...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? When a healthy rat smells a cat, it flees. But rats infected with the Toxoplasma brain parasite actually follow cat odors, often presumably to their doom, red in tooth a...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Katherine Harmon. Got a minute? Some 50 million Americans 65 and older currently get help from Medicare. But the program doesn't cover all of the patient's medications. After a patient's annual dru...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Conventional poultry farms use antibiotics extensively, which contributes to the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. But farms that turn to organic...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Sophie Bushwick. Got a Minute? What's the best way to find out if an unknown mixture contains a specific substance, like an environmental contaminant? You could use an expensive, bulky gas chromatogr...
