60-second Science

Researchers who study aphantasia, or the inability to visualize something in your “mind’s eye,” are starting to get a sense of how to accurately measure the condition and what it may mean for those who have it.

From space aliens to foreign surveillance, we spoke to experts to find out what’s really going on with the balloon brouhaha.

Successfully mitigating the impacts of climate change will rely heavily on innovation in science and technology.

Science might be redefining what “life out there” really means.

How romance affects our well-being is a lot more complicated than “they lived happily ever after.”

In fair zoo-ona, a pair of star-cross’d pandas take their life. And we learn about whether or not animals can fall in love.

Are you “anxious,” “avoidant” or “disorganized?” So-called attachment styles have taken the Internet by storm. But it turns out there’s a lot more to unpack than people think. 

Host Shayla Love dives into the true story behind the now infamous 36 questions that lead to love.

A new era in Scientific American audio history is about to drop starting next week. Get ready for a science variety show guaranteed to quench your curiosity in under 10 minutes.

Scientific American’s short-form podcast has been going for 16 years, three months and seven days, counting today. But it’s time for us to evolve.

A new study puts the “brain drain hypothesis”—the idea that just having a phone next to you impacts your cognition—to the test to see if the science passes muster.

The verdict is in: female dogs actively evaluate human competence.

A massive storm slammed into Alaska’s western coast, and there was no ice to stop it.

Concertgoers danced more when music was supplemented with low-frequency bass tones.

Vaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies.

Recordings of more than 50 species of turtles and other animals help scientists reassess the origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates.

Researchers put this ancient critter through a subzero gauntlet to learn more about what happens to their internal clock while surviving the extreme.

From the ashes of the giants of Big Basin Redwoods State Park arise a history of fire suppression and real questions about what happens to the forests in a drought-stricken West Coast going forward.

In this new episode of our coronavirus podcast, we discuss a study that looked at the effects of Paxlovid on long COVID symptoms, and we also talk new bivalent boosters and immunity.

New research shows that bees “buzz” in more than the way you might think.