To a female orb web spider, a suitable male can look like a mate and meal. For these spiders, the dating game has turned into a deadly dance of evolutionary one. the female spiders can choose when to cut off their relations by eating her partner or k...
picture in orange it's a case in biology grazable heart shaw. the pill's even some addable as moraly as far as he can task. but we human often pack it food and plastic with it's environmental and the puzzle chanlenges. so Harvard scientist D-A and K...
Algae naturally produce oil, when its process start with oil turned into bio fuels, an alternative energy source. This is just one snag. Harvesting the oil from algae-float water is prohibitively expensive. But researchers have come up with an effort...
We've all heard exercise is good for your physical and mental wellbeing. But a good workout can actually influence the mental wellbeing of others, too. Because bosses who hit the gym tend to be less abusive to their employees. That's according to a s...
This is Scientific American's sixty seconds science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It's know that taller people tend to have more jobs with more authority and higher salaries but there is a flip side the more powerful person is th...
This is Scientific American Sixty Seconds Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? When Mexican tetra fish moved into darker caves long ago, they evolved to deal with the dark by becoming albino and going blind. A new research shows that the chang...
Lots of studies suggested limited quantities of alcohol, like one drink a day can benefit your cardiovascular helth. But for the tiny worm C. elegans, dilute b is a valuable f of ease. It actually doubles their lifespan, according to a study in the j...
Two washing machine-sized satellites recently went into orbit around the moon. In March, they start together the detailed data about the quakes of the moons gravity. The working name of the satellites have been GRAIL A and B，for gravity recovery an...
On election day, where do you vote? If its in a church, you might be inclined to vote more conservatively than if you cast your ballot at a school or government building. Thats according to reserch published in the international journal for the psych...
True to their names, boa constrictors squeeze the life out of their prey. But how dose a boa know its enough for a rat? The snake listens, for a heart beat. When it stops, thats a cue to let go, according to a study in the Journal biology letters. Re...
People have used tobacco for well over a thousand years. And researchers recently found unique physical evidence of the ancient habit. They detected traces of tobacco in a 1300-year-old Mayan container. The work is in the journal Rapid Communications...
Magnifying glass, calipers, teeny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fighting it out to find the world's smallest frog. One team just announced the discovery of the unaverage 7.7 millimeter p* which can sit comfortabl...
This is Scientific America's 60 second science, I'm Sentay Graber, this will just take a minute. Magnifying glass, telescope, tiny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fading it out to find the world's smallest frog.One...
If a country wants keep its nuclear bomb tests secret, it'll probably do it deep underground. But, even if you bury the bomb, some clues are reached the surface. So says the study in journal Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists analyzed the radar...
This is Scientific Americans -60 seconds science .I'm Steve Murskey.Got the minute? People with high blood pressure are often told to watch the salt, and it's long been far that hypertension related to excess salt is caused by the salt increasing in...
