60-Second Science

A fast-growing front in the battle against climate change is focused on developing green technologies aimed at reducing humankind’s carbon footprint, but many scientists say simply reducing... --...

Today we bring you the fourth episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Particles called muons are behaving weirdly, and that could mean a huge discovery. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The two cities’ rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

We know a lot about how sea turtles are threatened by our trash, but new research has just uncovered an underreported threat hiding inside lakes and rivers. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Today we bring you the third episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

By collecting the larvae of the fast flyers, researchers have turned the insects into “biosentinels” that can track mercury pollution across the country. Berly McCoy reports. -- Read more on...

Can you pick a lock with just a smartphone? New research shows that doing so is possible. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

New research tries to tease out whether our closest animal relatives can be selfless -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

This is a podcast about sound. Host Randi Zuckerberg discovers the stories behind the sounds we hear everyday… sounds that inform, entertain, educate, get our attention, influence our... -- Read...

Today we bring you the second episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientists studied three varieties of house mice and found that those who had lived alongside humans the longest were also the craftiest at solving food puzzles. Christopher Intagliata reports. --...

New research shows that when faced with an impossible task, the marsupials look to humans for help. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Today we begin a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential... -- Read more on...

You can call it the ‘revenge of the computer scientist.’ An algorithm that made headlines for mastering the notoriously difficult Atari 2600 game Montezuma’s Revenge, can now beat... -- Read more...

Decoy sea turtle eggs containing tracking tech are new weapons against beach poachers and traffickers. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Spotted hyena males do not fight for mates, so how are certain males shut out of the mating game? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

After an intense game of cat and mouse with different particles, atomic physicists have measured the radius of the helium nucleus five times more precisely than before. Christopher Intagliata...

Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Costa Rica about decoy sea turtle eggs with the potential to catch poachers. -- Read more on...

The research team determined that the city of Raipur in central India has at least one street cow for every 54 human residents. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com