We've all heard exercise is good for your physical and mental wellbeing. But a good workout can actually influence the mental wellbeing of others, too. Because bosses who hit the gym tend to be less abusive to their employees. That's according to a s...
This is Scientific American's sixty seconds science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It's know that taller people tend to have more jobs with more authority and higher salaries but there is a flip side the more powerful person is th...
This is Scientific American Sixty Seconds Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? When Mexican tetra fish moved into darker caves long ago, they evolved to deal with the dark by becoming albino and going blind. A new research shows that the chang...
Lots of studies suggested limited quantities of alcohol, like one drink a day can benefit your cardiovascular helth. But for the tiny worm C. elegans, dilute b is a valuable f of ease. It actually doubles their lifespan, according to a study in the j...
Two washing machine-sized satellites recently went into orbit around the moon. In March, they start together the detailed data about the quakes of the moons gravity. The working name of the satellites have been GRAIL A and B，for gravity recovery an...
On election day, where do you vote? If its in a church, you might be inclined to vote more conservatively than if you cast your ballot at a school or government building. Thats according to reserch published in the international journal for the psych...
True to their names, boa constrictors squeeze the life out of their prey. But how dose a boa know its enough for a rat? The snake listens, for a heart beat. When it stops, thats a cue to let go, according to a study in the Journal biology letters. Re...
Magnifying glass, calipers, teeny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fighting it out to find the world's smallest frog. One team just announced the discovery of the unaverage 7.7 millimeter p* which can sit comfortabl...
This is Scientific America's 60 second science, I'm Sentay Graber, this will just take a minute. Magnifying glass, telescope, tiny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fading it out to find the world's smallest frog.One...
If a country wants keep its nuclear bomb tests secret, it'll probably do it deep underground. But, even if you bury the bomb, some clues are reached the surface. So says the study in journal Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists analyzed the radar...
