Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Doing science isn’t easy. It takes an enormous amount of time and energy to collect and analyze data. At least, that’s ...

We Homo sapiens take our ability to snap for granted. So much so that anything we think of as easy is a snap to do. But a new study from a team of researchers and students published in the Journal of ...

I ask Bobby Badfingers, the enthusiastic finger-snapping maestro who was bounced last week from America's Got Talent, how he's been doing. "Pretty snappy," he replies without hesitation. Why shouldn't ...