Science Friday
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Promising new treatments for pancreatic cancer and ALS
Jun 26, 202618 min
That chlorine smell at the pool? It’s pee
Jun 25, 202612 min
Under proposed rule, science funding must pass political review
Jun 24, 202612 min
Can you learn to love the scorpion?
Jun 23, 202618 min
FDA approves a well-known sunscreen ingredient—finally
Jun 22, 202612 min
Why do sports announcers talk like that?
Jun 19, 202613 min
Swords, cannibalism, poison: inside the world of killer microbes
Jun 18, 202621 min
When music transports you to a different place
Jun 17, 202618 min
A vast whale graveyard + Zombie sea cucumbers
Jun 16, 202618 min
Should we bring mountain lions back to the Northeast?
Jun 15, 202612 min
Blue Origin explosion hits NASA timeline + Artemis III crew
Jun 12, 202612 min
Why can I handle tequila but not rum?
Jun 11, 202621 min
AI + turfgrass science in the most high-tech World Cup yet
Jun 10, 202619 min
How extreme athletes like Alex Honnold keep their cool
Jun 9, 202622 min
Parenting tips from the animal kingdom
Jun 8, 202621 min
Wait, is my washing machine playing Schubert?
Jun 6, 20266 min
A virus hunter in Nigeria has thoughts on the Ebola outbreak
Jun 5, 202620 min
How did Neanderthals deal with illness and injuries?
Jun 4, 202618 min
Looking for life in the clouds of Venus
Jun 3, 202627 min
Meet the drug developer taking on wildlife diseases
Jun 2, 202612 min
Can the shingles vaccine stave off dementia?
Jun 1, 202617 min
Inside the Nebraska quarantine facility responding to hantavirus
May 29, 202612 min
Surveying wildlife along Lewis and Clark's route, 220 years later
May 28, 202617 min
Pope Leo's encyclical on AI, and the Vatican science advisors
May 27, 202618 min
Bizarre exoplanet clouds + Counting insects with weather radar
May 26, 202620 min
A trailblazing geneticist reflects on her life and work
May 25, 202647 min
Is that spooky old house full of ghosts, or just infrasound?
May 22, 202617 min
How do clinical trials work, and who can participate?
May 21, 202621 min
Use of herbicide linked to Parkinson's is on the rise in the US
May 20, 202612 min
Why does fashion repeat in 20-year cycles? Math has the answer
May 19, 202615 min
Earth's ancient hydrogen, and fossilized vomit
May 18, 202617 min
How yawning might help clear dirty fluid from the brain
May 15, 202618 min
The new frontier of cancer research is in space
May 14, 202617 min
Who's composing music for my washing machine?
May 13, 202617 min
How El Niño shapes the world’s weather trends
May 12, 202612 min
Planning your photo ops for a trip around the moon
May 11, 202618 min
Understanding the gynecological health crisis facing Black women
May 8, 202617 min
Data about your body is up for sale. Who's buying it?
May 7, 202611 min
Sci-fi thriller combines aliens, robots, and Cherokee culture
May 6, 202617 min
Beavers could be humans' biggest ally, if we let them
May 5, 202620 min
Searching for dark matter, deep in the Earth
May 4, 202614 min
The decades-long movement to kill FEMA
May 2, 202612 min
What cats and dogs hear + A 'smell map' of the nose
May 1, 202617 min
How do you study microplastics in a plastic-filled lab?
Apr 30, 202610 min
What is ibogaine, and why is it in the news?
Apr 29, 202619 min
The long history of birds, from velociraptors to pigeons
Apr 28, 202621 min
Your DNA is constantly mutating, and that’s a good thing
Apr 27, 202617 min
Maine nearly became the first state to ban data centers
Apr 25, 202612 min
What urban design tells us about democracy
Apr 24, 202617 min
Listening for the cosmic ‘dark ages,’ from the lunar far side
Apr 23, 202612 min