This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The results are in, and, Americans pretty much like science. Eighty-four percent of those polled think that sciences effect on society is mostly positive. Thats the resu...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. Sex might seem like one of those little gifts from evolution. But its pretty inefficient from an evolutionary perspective. Itd be much easier to reprod...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Ever-increasing numbers of people are consuming news via the Internet and cell phones. In London last week at the World Conference of Science Journalists, Philip Hilts, t...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? We might think perfect pitch is an innate talent. Well, a study in the American Journal of Human Genetics is providing some evidence for that. Perfect pitch, aka a...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? If youve spoken to anyone in New York City, where Scientific Americans offices are, then youve heard about the rain, every day since mid-June. Still, were not in t...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute? During the last ice age our problem was too little carbon. Unlike today where too much carbon is causing global warming. Past glacial ages occurred partly because...
