This is Scientific Americans Sixty-Second-Science, Im Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Everybody loves your freeby, especially those samples you get at the doctors office with the latest greatest brand-name cures for your headache, or your...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its not often that an incoming college freshman is already starting his own multimillion dollar business. But thats whats happening to Ben Gulak. Hes a...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Open a newspaper any day of the week and youre likely to read about a promising new treatment for one disease or another. But according to a study publis...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Conditions such as mad cow disease are caused by abnormally shaped proteins, called prions. Prions spread by causing other, normal proteins to misfold...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. [Sports announcer:] Hello and welcome to Sports Update. In NHL action: with two seconds left in OT, Penguins winger Jean Jejune nailed a wrist shot from...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. this will just take a minute. Weve all heard of the fight to combat malaria in mostly poor, tropical countries. But a whole host of other tropical diseases exist that leave their vi...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?. [Spray sound.] Killing bugs? No. [Spray sound.] Deodorizing the bathroom? No. [Spray sound.] Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of Califor...
