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Recent Scientific American Episodes
Publication Date | May 16, 2016
Duration | 00:01:48
Publication Date | May 16, 2016
Duration | 00:01:48
Dust clouds from the Sahara reach the Caribbean—and fertilize waters there when they arrive. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Publication Date | May 12, 2016
Duration | 00:30:26
Publication Date | May 12, 2016
Duration | 00:30:26
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself . (Dutton, 2016)
Publication Date | May 12, 2016
Duration | 00:02:11
Publication Date | May 12, 2016
Duration | 00:02:11
A single-celled organism discovered in chinchilla droppings is the only known eukaryotic organism that lacks mitochondria-like organelles. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Publication Date | May 10, 2016
Duration | 00:01:48
Publication Date | May 10, 2016
Duration | 00:01:48
Raindrops eject carbon-based blobs of soil material from wet fields, creating a mist of organic compounds above the soil. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Publication Date | May 05, 2016
Duration | 00:34:39
Publication Date | May 05, 2016
Duration | 00:34:39
Former Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his latest science fiction thriller, The Orion Plan, featuring the method whereby aliens most likely really would colonize our planet.
Publication Date | May 05, 2016
Duration | 00:01:46
Publication Date | May 05, 2016
Duration | 00:01:46
A chemical compound can cut a cow's methane emissions by 30 percent—and help the animal get more energy from its food. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Publication Date | May 02, 2016
Duration | 00:02:02
Publication Date | May 02, 2016
Duration | 00:02:02
Researchers found that neighborhoods with a higher proportion of Flickr photos tagged "art" saw a higher spike in property prices. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Publication Date | Apr 29, 2016
Duration | 00:36:45
Publication Date | Apr 29, 2016
Duration | 00:36:45
Primatologist Frans de Waal discusses his latest book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Norton, 2016).
Publication Date | Apr 28, 2016
Duration | 00:02:18
Publication Date | Apr 28, 2016
Duration | 00:02:18
An individual's unique brain response to images of a celebrity and a food could be used to create an ID procedure at high-security sites.
Publication Date | Apr 27, 2016
Duration | 00:01:44
Publication Date | Apr 27, 2016
Duration | 00:01:44
Volunteers who ate veggies grown in wastewater had higher (but still safe) levels of an epilepsy drug in their urine, compared with subjects who ate freshwater-grown veggies. Christopher Intagliata reports.