This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Thisll just take a minute. Any school kid can tell you that comets are made of ice....
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In 1970, the Soviet Union put a laser reflector on the moon, carried by a rover. A few months later, it disappeared. Some speculated that the rover ha...
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A New York Times reporter recently wrote this sentence: Like most heck, all of the women I know, my relationship to food, to my weight, to my body isc...
Hows this for a possible new culprit for breast cancer sufferers: they may be able to blame their grandmas diets. Thats the implication of a study don...
This is Scientific American's Sixty-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got the minute? Scientists have finally verified something that Jersey...
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