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January 08, 2007: 60-Second Science Breathing Easy On The Golf Course There is little danger from inhaling pesticide residues on northeast US golf courses. However, inhalation isn't the only way to get exposed.
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January 05, 2007: 60-Second Science Malaria: Jumping To A Solution A species of jumping spider loves to feed on the specific type of mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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January 04, 2007: 60-Second Science Not Standing Pat Televangelist Pat Robertson's predictions carry little weight compared with those from outgoing National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield.
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January 03, 2007: 60-Second Science Chad Dusts Brazil More than half of the mineral-rich dust that feeds the Brazilian rainforest originates in a single valley in the African country of Chad.
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January 02, 2007: 60-Second Science 2006 Women's Health Highlights The cervical cancer vaccine and other top women's health stories for 2006, according to the Society for Women's Health Research.
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November 30, 2006: 60-Second Science Making patients laugh in certain situations may reduce pain and improve outcomes.
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November 29, 2006: 60-Second Science That metallic smell of loose change really results from the chemistry of coin with skin.
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November 28, 2006: 60-Second Science Last week, a cosmonaut whacked a golf ball off the International Space Station.
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November 27, 2006: 60-Second Science Adding a single gene back to wheat that was lost in domestication could significantly boost the grain's protein and iron content.
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November 22, 2006: 60-Second Science Turkey expert Richard Buchholz explains how the bird on your table Thursday is much different from the ones they had at the first Thanksgiving.
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November 21, 2006: 60-Second Science Humans and chimps are very close genetically, but the different ways the genes interact with each other in networks may be what's behind the big differences between us and them.
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November 20, 2006: 60-Second Science Participants in an aspirin study who couldn't swear off chocolate helped researchers find some sweet science.
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November 17, 2006: 60-Second Science Pumping air into the shower provides a clean cut to water consumption.
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November 16, 2006: 60-Second Science Mice whose sleep cycles were disrupted as if they were jet-lagged died younger than those allowed to snooze in peace.
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November 15, 2006: 60-Second Science Small children seem to be predisposed toward liking other children who have good luck and shunning unlucky ones.
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November 14, 2006: 60-Second Science Business, policy and science leaders are named to the SA50 list featured in the December issue of Scientific American and at our website, www.sciam.com.
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November 13, 2006: 60-Second Science Highlights from the second day of the World Science Forum, featuring Amory Lovins, Francis Collins and Ray Kurzweil
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November 10, 2006: 60-Second Science Speaking at the World Science Forum in New York City, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield explained that sophisticated brains are less constrained by genetics than simple ones.
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November 09, 2006: 60-Second Science New evidence points to a cataclysmic earthquake of at least magnitude 8.4 in the Himalayas once every thousand years.
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November 08, 2006: 60-Second Science Players have complained about the NBA's new synthetic basketball. Now physicists agree with the players' gripes about the grip.
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November 07, 2006: 60-Second Science On Election Day there are two kinds of politicians: the ones who use gel hand sanitizers while mingling with the masses, and the ones who don't.
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November 06, 2006: 60-Second Science Computerized systems for labeling photos should save digital image uploaders a lot of time, and cause many more pictures to be found during web image searches.
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November 03, 2006: 60-Second Science Mice with slightly cooler core body temperatures live significantly longer than average.
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November 02, 2006: 60-Second Science More vampire news: a newly published mathematical analysis (geometric progression) says that if vampires existed all humans would be gone by now--but that analysis fails to take into account more complex predator-prey mathematics (coupled differential equations).
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November 01, 2006: 60-Second Science Two touted antismoking measures--media campaigns aimed at parents and ventilation systems to protect nonsmokers in restaurants--may actually increase exposure to smoke.
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