60-second Science
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- Duration: 84:16:42
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Synopsis
Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting developments in the world of science. For a full-length, weekly podcast you can subscribe to Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American . To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast
Episodes
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Barn Owl Babies Can Be Helpful Hatch Mates
14/05/2020 Duration: 03minFood sharing is mainly found in adult animals as a part of social bonding. But in a rarely observed behavior in birds, older barn owl chicks will share food with younger ones.
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Donut Sugar Could Help Stored Blood Last
12/05/2020 Duration: 02minDehydrated blood that could be kept at room temperature for years may be possible thanks to a sugar used to preserve donuts—and made by tardigrades and brine shrimp so they can dry out and spring back with water.
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Lemur Flirting Uses Common Scents
11/05/2020 Duration: 04minTo entice female ring-tailed lemurs, males rub wrist secretions, which include compounds we use in perfumes, onto their tail and then wave it near the gals.
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Flamingos Can Be Picky about Company
07/05/2020 Duration: 04minThey don’t stand on one leg around just anybody but often prefer certain members of the flock.
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Horses Recognize Pics of Their Keepers
05/05/2020 Duration: 03minHorses picked out photographs of their current keepers, and even of former keepers whom they had not seen in months, at a rate much better than chance.
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Tapirs Help Reforestation via Defecation
01/05/2020 Duration: 03minThe large herbivores appear to prefer disturbed areas over more intact ones and spread many more seeds in those places through their droppings.
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Virus-Infected Bees Practice Social Distancing
30/04/2020 Duration: 04minBees infected with a virus cut back on interactions within their hive but find it easier to get past sentries at neighboring hives.
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New Data on Killer House Cats
29/04/2020 Duration: 03minWild cats kill more animals than domestic ones do. But pet cats kill many more of them in a small area than similarly sized wild predators.
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Science News Briefs from around the World
28/04/2020 Duration: 03minHere are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about what the eruption of Mount Vesuvius might have done to one ill-fated resident of Herculaneum.
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Birds on Rhinos' Back Help Them Avoid Poachers
22/04/2020 Duration: 02minOxpeckers riding on rhinoceroses feast on ticks, and their calls warn the nearsighted herbivores about approaching humans.
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Jane Goodall: We Can Learn from This Pandemic
21/04/2020 Duration: 02minIn a teleconference promoting her participation in Earth Day events on the National Geographic Channel, Goodall talked about what gives her hope during the pandemic and what she hopes we all learn from it.
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Our 3,000th Episode
20/04/2020 Duration: 03minHere are some “highlights” from the past 13.5 years of this podcast.
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How Herbivore Herds Might Help Permafrost
17/04/2020 Duration: 03minIntroducing herds of large herbivores in the Arctic would disturb surface snow, allowing cold air to reach the ground and keep the permafrost frosty.
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Lung Cancer Screen Could Be Easy Pee-sy
15/04/2020 Duration: 03minIn mice, a test for lung cancer involves nanoprobes that recognize tumors and send reporter molecules into the urine for simple analysis.
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Obama Talks Some Science Policy
14/04/2020 Duration: 01minAs he endorsed Joe Biden today, former president Barack Obama touched on some environmental, economic and science matters.
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Red-Winged Blackbirds Understand Yellow Warbler Alarms
13/04/2020 Duration: 04minResearchers studying yellow warbler responses to the parasitic cowbird realized that red-winged blackbirds were eavesdropping on the calls and reacting to them, too.
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Waiter, What's This Worm Doing in My Sushi?
10/04/2020 Duration: 02minWell, it’s probably there because the odds on its presence have gone way up in the past 40 years. But such parasites are still much more of a health problem for whales and dolphins than they are for us.
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What's a Narwhal's Tusk For?
09/04/2020 Duration: 02minAlthough the tusk can be a weapon, the variation in tusk length among animals of similar body size points to it being primarily a mating status signal.
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Coronavirus Misinformation Is Its Own Deadly Condition
07/04/2020 Duration: 02minPulitzer-winning Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, talks about the dangers of politicians offering coronavirus misinformation.
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Coronavirus Can Infect Cats
06/04/2020 Duration: 03minTigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo have tested positive for the virus, and studies show that house cats—but apparently not dogs—can become infected.