Science Friday
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Could we live in a dinosaur world?
Aug 22, 20265 min
Do microplastics in the body affect pregnancy?
Aug 21, 202612 min
Making a case for physicists to join climate research
Aug 20, 202612 min
Creating 'world models' for robots + An AI math shakeup
Aug 19, 202617 min
What can moments of lucidity teach us about Alzheimer’s?
Aug 18, 202617 min
Colorado’s snow drought deals a major blow to recreation
Aug 17, 202611 min
How do you find a ‘lost’ species?
Aug 14, 202618 min
What we get wrong about vaccine hesitancy
Aug 13, 202612 min
Why this lab studies the speed of bug pee and other curiosities
Aug 12, 202618 min
Some primates undergo even more extreme childbirth than humans
Aug 11, 202611 min
Deb Haaland is a politician, and proud of it
Aug 10, 202617 min
Sitting all day is terrible for us. Moving a little can help
Aug 7, 202618 min
A Nagasaki survivor and physician recounts his life's work
Aug 6, 202618 min
What do people eat? Plant and animal DNA in sewage provide clues
Aug 5, 202612 min
3D images of galaxies will rock you (ft. Queen)
Aug 4, 202622 min
The evolution of an enzyme engineer who changed chemistry
Aug 3, 202630 min
Why is brain cancer so hard to treat?
Jul 31, 202617 min
How can astronaut food be better?
Jul 30, 202617 min
The reality of living with extreme heat in India
Jul 29, 202614 min
Tracking shark populations, one shark at a time
Jul 28, 202618 min
The Black women codebreakers of the Cold War
Jul 27, 202612 min
Asha de Vos’ journey from deck hand to marine science leader
Jul 24, 202618 min
Why worry about my data If I have nothing to hide?
Jul 23, 202616 min
Peering through dust clouds to the center of the galaxy
Jul 22, 202630 min
Why a paper about relocating coastal communities hit a nerve
Jul 21, 202612 min
How do you piece together what life was like in Pompeii?
Jul 20, 202622 min
Hold the lettuce: Updates on the 'explosive' cyclospora outbreak
Jul 17, 202612 min
A space telescope launch + Alvin submersible check-up
Jul 17, 202617 min
How does a tick bite cause a red meat allergy?
Jul 16, 202617 min
What will our reaction be when we discover aliens?
Jul 15, 202618 min
Beautiful botflies, luscious leeches, and the wonder of parasites
Jul 14, 202619 min
China's booming biotech, from a brain implant to drug discovery
Jul 13, 202618 min
Reconnecting with the night sky and reining in light pollution
Jul 10, 202617 min
Amid shifting politics, can we build stable global health systems?
Jul 9, 202618 min
How does the gut-brain connection work?
Jul 8, 202636 min
Investigating ‘flow state’ with the bassist from Phish
Jul 7, 202618 min
How the US patent system keeps drug prices high
Jul 6, 202612 min
What was science like in America 250 years ago?
Jul 3, 202629 min
An artificial cell eats, grows, and reproduces. Is it alive?
Jul 2, 202618 min
Growing lunar potatoes + Dealing with razor-sharp moon dust
Jul 1, 202617 min
Even Nobel Prize winners deal with imposter syndrome
Jun 30, 202636 min
Squirrel poop drops Ice Age clues + The neuroscience of laughter
Jun 29, 202617 min
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