This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Believe it or not, mosquitoes don't bite out of spite. Female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti need the nutrients present in your plasma to ensure the proper development of their...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Thirty million white-tailed deer now live in North America. That's a lotta deer. Megan Gall, a sensory ecologist at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In her Hudson Val...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Elephants don't diet, as far as we know. But their weight does fluctuate, at least for the ones who live in a zoo. Now, researchers have found that this gain and loss in an elephant's m...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. You know, when this little rover landed, the objective was to have it b?e able to move 1,100 yards and survive for 90 days on Mars. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. And instead here...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. How many U.S. presidents can you name? For most people, researchers have found the first couple are remembered, Washington, Adams. And the last couple. Obama, Bush, people lik...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. For more than a hundred years, this sound has been missing from New Zealand's forests: (hihi call up and under) It's like two stones being clicked together, or two marbles bei...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Winter storms have walloped California this year, and snowpack is piling up. But just a few years back, the state was wrung dry by a record-breaking drought. And more dry spel...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Jason Goldman. Male humpback whales are the concert singers of the marine world. These ocean giants belt out tunes that can be heard perhaps hundreds of miles away. The songs attract friends and love...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Every new parent knows, or learns pretty quickly, that rocking can calm that fussy baby when it's time to take a nap. But the benefits of gentle motion may extend past the swaddling sta...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Pain. It's unpleasant. But what if pain could be rendered less...painful...emotionally speaking? Such uncoupling might not be entirely farfetched. Because researchers have located a set...