Bring home a bucket of fried chicken and you may find that people have strong feelings about which part of the bird is best. Well, scientists at Washi...
Welcome to the science stock, the weekly podcast of scientific Americans posted on Feburary 25th, 2010. I am Steve Mirsky. Its called The Poisoner's H...
Wanna be lazy and productive at the same time? Try a napbecause napping can improve learning. So said U.C. Berkeleys Matthew Walker February 21st at t...
Its long been known that nutrient-rich dust from Africa floats across the Atlantic to the Amazon. And its assumed that the dust fertilizes the rainfor...
Lost in the coverage of the so-called climategate email controversy is a key point about the IPCCs track record of climate change estimates. James McC...
When youre looking for a table in a crowded cafeteria, you probably give wide berth to the family that sounds like its sharing a big dish of whooping ...
Welcome to the Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on February 18th, 2010. I am Steve Mirsky. And you know what the hottest...
The Journal of the American Medical Association doesnt usually report autopsy results. But they make an exception this week: for King Tut. The study o...
Some call it the hormone of love. Its oxytocin and it helps moms bond with and breast-feed their babies, and even keeps romantic couples content. Now ...
Imagine a world where sunlight can be captured to produce electricity anywhere, on any surface. The makers of thin-film flexible solar cells imagine t...
