This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? Performance anxiety can be crippling. Entertainers who suffer from it come up with creative defenses. Bono has his purple shades. The indie rock singer Cat Power fac...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Remember affirmations? Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggonit, people like me. Well, if Stuart Smalley's shot-in-the-arm makes you smile...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Thats a sound that inspires fear around the world: the dentists drill. And fear of that sound itself could play a part in keeping some people from gettin...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? The Apollo moon missions ended almost 40 years ago. But for lunar scientists, they're gifts that keep on giving. Researchers studying rocks brought back by ast...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. We produce tears in response to insults to the eyesthe sting of onion fumes, a tiny insect that flew into your cornea. But we also produce emotional tear...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. January often gets people thinking about what they've accomplished over the past 12 months. This year, it got the editors of the medical journal the Lanc...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Oh what a tangled web we weave. Or so it may seem, because many social networks eventually evolve into one of just two states. We either all get along, o...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Did you hoist a few on New Year's? Of course, getting together with friends over a few adult beverages has a long history. Here's the University of Cincinnati's Kathleen...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Over the years regulations have developed to limit the hours of hospital interns and residents, because someone putting in a 100-hour workweek might not be at their best w...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Beauty is only skin deep. And the beauty of shiny white teeth is even less deep. Because a new study shows that fluoride forms a thinner protective shiel...
