PCRthe polymerase chain reactionis a crucial tool. The DNA amplification technique is used in genome sequencing, forensics and the diagnosis of various diseases. To give researchers more genetic material to work with, a PCR instrument repeatedly heat...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Amy Kraft. Got a minute? Over the course of this campaign... A lot of people watch political debates on TV. Which means great opportunities for advertisers. But an ad for an island getaway or exoti...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Daniel Schechtman of the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in Haifa. Schechtman discovered what are called quasicrystals....
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Brian Schmidt at the Australian National Lab and Adam Reiss at Johns Hopki...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Bruce Beutler at the Scripps Research Institute in California, Jules Hoffmann at the French National Center for Sc...
