This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its good to be the Queen. You get fed and cared for and generally treated like royalty. But if youre a blue butterfly caterpillar, you can get the same b...
Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Nearly 20 percent of servicemen and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan report symptoms of post-traumatic stress or major depression. Another 19 perce...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Indiana Jones (I hate snakesI hate em!) would have totally despised a snake that lived some 60 million years ago. Because researchers working in Colombia have found th...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Mosquitoes have an unwitting new ally in the war on infectious diseasesconservationists. Turns out that, for mosquitoes carrying dengue-fever, environmentally consci...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If you have a dog, you know you gotta walk it. But do you know how it walks? Well, if you have no idea which foot Fido puts forward when, youre in good c...