Science, Quickly

By Scientific AmericanScience

Science, Quickly episodes

June 28, 2016 Made Ya Look, Monkey
Over their lifetimes, macaques follow the same trajectory as humans in the amount of interest they have in observing what another individual is looking at.

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4 min
June 27, 2016 Drowsy Driving Kills 6,400 Americans Annually
Charles Czeisler, director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, talked about the dangers of drowsy driving at a recent Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Forum called Asleep at the Wheel.

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4 min
June 24, 2016 Social Spider Groups Need Bold and Shy Members
Social spiders in artificially assembled groups of all bold or all shy members fared less well against predators than a group with some shy and some bold members.

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4 min
June 22, 2016 Viruses Hijack the Body's Response to Mosquito Bites
When immune cells rush to the site of a mosquito bite, viruses hijack the cells and turn them into viral factories—in mice, at least. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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4 min
June 21, 2016 Mongooses Pile on Warthogs--to Groom Them
In the first known example of a mutualistic relationship between two mammal species in which neither is a primate, mongooses feast on ticks and other parasites infesting warthogs.

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4 min
June 20, 2016 Lizard Stripes May Mess Up Predators' Timing
A lizard's stripes may make them look like they’re moving slower than they really are, confusing predators that tend to aim at the head but may wind up with the tail.

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5 min
June 19, 2016 Air Pollution Gives Storm Clouds a Stronger, Longer Life
More particulate matter in the air can build stronger, longer-lasting thunderstorms over the tropics, leading to more extreme storms. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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4 min
June 16, 2016 Microbes May Contribute to Wine's "Character"
The microbes found in crushed grapes were linked to certain chemical fingerprints in the finished wine. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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4 min
June 13, 2016 Arctic Researcher Bears Up for Science
Wildlife researcher Joel Berger dons a polar bear outfit to study the reactions of musk oxen to the threat of bears increasingly driven onto the land for food.

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4 min
June 11, 2016 Submerged Lost City Really Bacterially Built
What looked like human-made structures underwater off Greece turned out to be millions-of-years-old concretions deposited by bacteria.

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4 min