60-Second Science

A tree survey in the Amazon by more than 150 researchers led to an estimate that up to 57 percent of Amazon trees could qualify for threatened species status by 2050  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A study found that the stronger a subject's memory of a particular food, the more likely they were to choose it again, even over foods they professed to enjoy more   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volunteers taking an "implicit bias" test who were unlikely to associate images of women with leadership titles like executive or president were far less likely to vote for a woman in a race against a man of equal qualification   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twenty minutes into a meal, E. coli pump out appetite-suppressing proteins, which could influence our feeling of hunger. Christopher Intagliata reports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers took cells from donated vocal cord tissue and successfully grew them on a three-dimensional scaffold to produce new vocal cords that can produce sound   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Using a satellite-born sensor system that can penetrate through several feet of dry surface sediments, researchers found the dry remains of an ancient river system winding for hundreds of miles below the Saharan sands   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stimulating the "taste cortex" was enough to trick mice into thinking they'd tasted sweet or bitter substances, when in fact their tongues tasted nothing at all. Christopher Intagliata reports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fruits growing wild in urban areas were found to be healthful and to contain lower levels of lead than what's considered safe in drinking water   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Careful recordings of mouse interactions find that females vocalize, overturning the long-held view that only males sing during courtship   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slow, steady breathing lofts minute food particles into the nasal cavity, where they contribute to your perception of flavor. Christopher Intagliata reports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices