60-Second Science
Scientific American
Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.
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May 10, 2022 • 7min
Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution
Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 6, 2022 • 7min
The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade
A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 2, 2022 • 7min
Safer Indoor Air, and People Want Masks on Planes and Trains: COVID Quickly, Episode 29
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.
You can listen to all past episodes here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 25, 2022 • 5min
Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds
As the world warms, many animals are getting smaller. For birds, new research shows what they have upstairs may just make a different in how much smaller they get. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 20, 2022 • 7min
Cosmic Simulation Shows How Dark-Matter-Deficient Galaxies Confront Goliath and Survive
A research team finds seven tiny dwarf galaxies stripped of their dark matter that nonetheless persisted despite the theft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 15, 2022 • 8min
Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.
You can listen to all past episodes here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 13, 2022 • 5min
Science Finally Has a Good Idea about Why We Stutter
A glitch in speech initiation gives rise to the repetition that characterizes stuttering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 12, 2022 • 6min
Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast
In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 8, 2022 • 8min
Probiotics Could Help Save Overheated Corals
Think of the process as a kind of marine fecal transplant—except the restorative bacteria do not come from stool; they come from other corals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 5, 2022 • 4min
The History of the Milky Way Comes into Focus
By dating nearly a quarter-million stars, astronomers were able to reconstruct the history of our galaxy—and they say it has lived an “enormously sheltered life.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
