This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The Earths crust is old. Billions of years old. So old that its nearly impossible to imagine. And now scientists have discovered what may be the oldest...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. We humans love a good story. We tell stories to entertain, to inform, even to pass the time. And weve been telling tales for, oh, the past 50,000 years....
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever gotten sucked into a bidding war on eBay, you know the feeling. With one minute left in the auction, the bidding is fast and furious as eve...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Athletes have obviously been tempted to use performance enhancing anabolic steroids. Drug testing may discourage such use. But a new study finds that some of the perfo...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Theres a Native American site in Ohio that appeared to be a fort. But recent discoveries by archaeologists at the University of Cincinnati show thats n...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes a bit of bacteria can be just what the doctor ordered. If you prize yogurt for its active cultures, you know what Im talking about. Now a new s...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Fingers are pretty nifty. They let you to grab a latte, type on a keyboard, even pull up your pants. But did you ever wonder: where do fingers come from?...
Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its fairly well known that fish stocks are collapsing around the world. But theres a management method that appears to offer long-term envir...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Breaking a mirror means seven years bad luck. So does spilling salt or meeting a black cat. Weve all heard such silly-sounding superstitions. Of course w...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? We live in a nice neighborhood. Of the galaxy, that is. The sun is about halfway toward the outer edge of the Milky Way. But the sun may have migrated vast distances t...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber . This will just take a minute. Theres a traditional bowl in Korea that locals say makes food safer. And they might be right. The bowl is made of almost 80 percent copper. Copper ion...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If you spent any time in your car this summer you probably sat in some traffic. Maybe youre in a jam right now. If so, a study in an upcoming issue of Ph...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? While Im talking, youre not just passively listening. Your brain is also busy at work, guessing the next word that I will savor before I actually speak it. You thought...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber .This will just take a minute. A year ago astronomers sent out an invitation. A robotic telescope called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey had produced almost a million images. Researcher...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? There's a new prescription for communities that want to make their streets safer for bike riders: just add more bikes. A team of international researchers looked at...
