60-Second Science

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Quick reports and commentaries on the world of science from Scientific American

Episodes

COVID Quickly, Episode 16: Vaccines Protect Pregnancies, and a New Antiviral Pill

Oct 8, 3 PM | 5 mins

Night Flights Are No Sweat for Tropical Bees

Oct 1, 2 PM | 4 mins

These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change

Sep 28, 2 PM | 3½ mins

Dinosaurs Lived--and Made Little Dinos--in the Arctic

Sep 21, 3 PM | 4 mins

During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities

Sep 17, 3 PM | 5 mins

A Car Crash Snaps the Daydreaming Mind into Focus

Sep 15, 2 PM | 4 mins

In Missouri, a Human "Bee" Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects

Sep 8, 1 PM | 3 mins

Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything'

Aug 24, 12 PM | 4 mins

Astronomers Find an Unexpected Bumper Crop of Black Holes

Aug 12, 2 PM | 4 mins

The Secret behind Songbirds' Magnetic Migratory Sense

Aug 4, 2 PM | 3 mins

Moths Have an Acoustic Invisibility Cloak to Stay under Bats' Radar

Jul 21, 12 PM | 3 mins

Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning

Jul 7, 12 PM | 4 mins

For African Elephants, Pee Could Be a Potent Trail Marker

Jun 11, 1 PM | 3 mins

Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age, Most Adorable Study of the Year Confirms

Jun 3, 3 PM | 4 mins

Bats on Helium Reveal an Innate Sense of the Speed of Sound

May 28, 11 AM | 4 mins

The Dirty Secret behind Some of the World's Earliest Microscopes

May 26, 12 PM | 3 mins

Who Laps Whom on the Walking Track--Tyrannosaurus rex or You? Science Has a New Answer

May 14, 3 PM | 2½ mins

Artificial Light Keeps Mosquitoes Biting Late into the Night

May 11, 1 PM | 4 mins

Lovebirds Adore Our Inefficient Air-Conditioning

Apr 27, 3 PM | 4 mins

Bee Hives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes

Apr 20, 2 PM | 2½ mins

These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs

Apr 16, 12 PM | 2 mins

Boston's Pigeons Coo 'Wicked,' New York's 'Fuhgeddaboudit'

Apr 5, 3 PM | 4 mins

Using Dragonflies as Contamination Detectors

Mar 24, 12 PM | 3 mins

Smartphones Can Hear the Shape of Your Door Keys

Mar 18, 12 PM | 3½ mins

Chimpanzees Show Altruism While Gathering Around the Juice Fountain

Mar 16, 12 PM | 5 mins

COVID, Quickly, Episode 2: Lessons from a Pandemic Year

Mar 11, 11 PM | 6 mins