This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky. I think there will come a time when we will experiment with an automated strike zone. Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball. Manfred spoke February 27th at the SportT...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Let's play a word game. What word can be put in front of the words stick, maker, and point to make three new compound words? Again...stick, maker, and point. (five-second sile...
Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the February 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine. The article is titled Q...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. The compounds THC and CBD are known as cannabinoids, because they co??me from cannabis. AKA marijuana. Now biologists have taken the genes that produce cannabinoids in weed, a...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. (Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Mission Control: Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. W...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Living with your parents has its benefits...at least when it comes to raising your kidstheir grandkids. Because two new studies add to the evidence that grandmothers can enhance the sur...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Think killer robots. What c?????omes to mind? Maybe...this guy? I'll be back. We are not talking about Terminator. We're talking about much simpler technologies, which are a??...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. A recent analysis predicts that 40 percent of the world's insect species could go extinct within a couple of decades. The highest death tolls could be among butterflies, moths...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. In Latin America, Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans have intermixed for centuries. So, a few years back, researchers sought to learn more about the ancestry of more th...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. I think we all agree that there is a crisis, even, in our society about how we use science. We all know about climate change denial on one side, but there's also all the issues about op...