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60-Second Science
Newest Episode: Tue March 16, 2010. 07:03 PM
Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting developments in the world of science. For a full-length, weekly podcast you can subscribe to Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American. To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast
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Tue March 16, 2010. 07:03 PM
At the American Museum of Natural History on March 15th, retired Air Force General Lester Lyles talked about how the military came to understand during the first Iraq war the importance of spacefaring capability for everything involved in conducting its operations. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Tue March 16, 2010. 02:52 AM
In a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers note that we each carry a unique microbial community--and that the bacterial residue we leave could be used to make forensic identifications. Karen Hopkin reports.
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Mon March 15, 2010. 06:15 AM
Long a proponent of including nonscientific creationism in the biology curriculum, the Texas State Board of Education last week further illustrated its willingness to sacrifice accuracy for ideology by excluding Thomas Jefferson from a list of influential historical figures. Steve Mirsky reports
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In a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, researchers found that the Monday after the change to Daylight Saving Time is marked by an increase in work-related injuries. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Speaking March 10th at the 92nd Street Y's Tribeca site in New York City, Scientific American Mind contributing editor Robert Epstein discussed how arranged marriages can surpass love matches for long-term contentment. Steve Mirsky reports
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Wed March 10, 2010. 04:50 AM
In a study in the American Journal of Physiology--Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, researchers report a novel method for killing disease-carrying mosquitoes: interfere with urination. Cynthia Graber reports
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Tue March 09, 2010. 03:10 AM
In a paper in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, researchers argue that getting fat is the body's way of storing fat correctly, and that metabolic problems kick in when we get so fat that fat infiltrates organs not equipped to deal with it. Karen Hopkin reports
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A study in the Journal of Marketing shows that shoppers are not good at estimating the total cost of what they have in their shopping carts. Karen Hopkin reports
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A study in the journal Molecular Ecology looked at West Nile Virus spread versus bird migration patterns and mosquito movement and concluded mosquitoes, not birds, were probably the primary vector for taking the disease coast to coast in just five years. Adam Hinterthuer reports.
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A study in the journal Academic Medicine shows that millions of dollars and pounds of refuse can be saved by recycling some medically related waste that often gets thrown away without even being used. Cynthia Graber reports.
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Tue March 02, 2010. 07:03 PM
A study in the journal Science shows that bony fish filter-feeders spent 100 million years developing and occupying the niche that baleen whales do now. Another Science study finds that whale diversity has been determined by the types of tiny organisms they eat. Cynthia Graber reports.
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Mon March 01, 2010. 07:20 PM
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at the survival rates of men, woman and children from Titanic and the Lusitania, and found more men stayed alive when the ship went down fast, and panic overtook chivalry. Karen Hopkin reports.
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Mon March 01, 2010. 04:10 AM
A study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface found that as mammalian animals increase in size, their feet do not scale up accordingly--but there is a general increase in the stiffness of the footpad. Karen Hopkin reports.
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Fri February 26, 2010. 05:43 AM
A study in the journal Public Library of Science ONE finds that chickens have additional retinal cones compared with us, which allows them to discern additional colors. Karen Hopkin reports.
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Wed February 24, 2010. 07:03 PM
At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Stony Brook University's Robert Crease talked about how a 1999 article in Scientific American, on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and a future Nobel Laureate got a few people thinking the planet was in jeopardy. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Wed February 24, 2010. 06:58 AM
Naps help move new info from short-term memory storage in the hippocampus to long-term storage in the cortex, said UC Berkeley's Matthew Walker at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Deigo on February 21st. (In other words, zzzz's help the three R's.) Christie Nicholson reports.
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Mon February 22, 2010. 07:03 PM
Intercontinental dust helps fertilize lush forests in the western hemisphere and Hawaii, noted Oliver Chadwick of the University of California, Santa Barbara, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Deigo on February 19th. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, James McCarthy of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment noted that the IPCC usually errs on the conservative side. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Thu February 18, 2010. 07:03 PM
A study in the journal Biology Letters finds that male finches prefer dining next to a sick bird despite the risk of infection, probably because the lethargic companion is less likely to engage in food fights. Karen Hopkin reports
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Wed February 17, 2010. 07:03 PM
The 1969 Murchison meteorite was known to harbor complex organic compounds, but a new analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that it may also contain millions of chemicals and shed light on the timeline of the kinds of chemistry that went on in a much earlier universe. Adam Hinterthuer reports
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