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Science Friday: The Grasshopper Bot
Researchers built a new bot that can jump 27 times its own height. That's a world record. Learn more about the project.
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Science Friday: Dive Into the Physics of Splashing
Everybody knows that when a stone is dropped in water, a jet of water shoots up. Physicists Detlef Lohse, from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, and Heinrich Jaeger, of The University of Chicago, are combining math, theory and...
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Science Friday: Young Inventors Soup Up a Wheelchair
In the basement of Staten Island Technical High School, a group of students meets regularly to build and invent. They are members of "Team TechSmart" and they recently won an award for a wheelchair prototype they created. It can spin in...
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Science Friday: Ira Reads Your Letters Larkspur, Ca
Ira Flatow reads fan mail from Larkspur, Ca. He's in for a sweet surprise.
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Science Friday: Physics of the Riderless Bike
It looks like magic. A bike traveling at the right speed will steer itself--popping back up when it starts to fall. But why? A new paper by Andy Ruina, of Cornell University, Jim Papadopoulos, of University of Wisconsin - Stout, and...
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Science Friday: Build an Eye in the Sky
Need a new perspective on life? Try launching a video camera 50 feet in the air. This DIY sky-cam is one of many experiments outlined in Ken Denmead's new book Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share.
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Science Friday: Dead Bat Mystery
Science, technology, and other cool stuff from the folks behind public radio's Science Friday. It's brain fun, for curious people.
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Science Friday: Bones, Books, and Bell Jars
In her new book, Bones Books and Bell Jars, physician and photographer Andrea Baldeck documents the collection of medical texts, instruments, and specimens at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum.
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson
Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. In the latest installment of Science Friday's Desktop Diaries series, ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of...
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Science Friday: Cracking the Egg Sprinkler Mystery
When engineer Tadd Truscott was in grad school, one of his classmates at MIT suggested they spin an egg in a puddle of milk and film it with a high-speed camera. What they saw was a tiny sprinkler system: the milk rose up the sides of...
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Daniel Kahneman
"I have always emphasized the willingness to discard," says psychologist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman. That philosophy works on two levels -- forget desk trinkets, Kahneman doesn't have a desk -- and he doesn't hoard ideas either...
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Temple Grandin
"I'm pure geek, pure logic," says Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. We spent an afternoon with Dr. Grandin in her office in Fort Collins.
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Jill Tarter
As the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's first employee, Tarter has accumulated E.T.-themed office ornaments for the last 30 years -- including a bottle of wine to be opened "only upon detection of...
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Science Friday: Plunge Into the Science of Base Jumping
BASE stands for the objects the practitioners of the sport jump from: buildings, antennas, spans, earth. We look into the physics and neuroscience of the sport.
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Science Friday: Concocting the Perfect Cup of Coffee
Brewing coffee is a never-ending science project, according to barista Sam Penix, owner of Everyman Espresso in New York City.
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Tim White
From snake skins to bear teeth, White's office is not short on artifacts.
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Science Friday: Super Sized Snapshot
Meet a Polaroid camera that weighs 235 pounds and takes 2-foot-tall instant snapshots.
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Science Friday: Living Inside the Box
Michele Bertomen and David Boyle bought an empty 20-by-40-foot lot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and built a home constructed from shipping containers.
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Science Friday: Microscopic Movie Stars
Photographer Roman Vishniac was a pioneer of filming through the microscope. The craft has changed with digital photography, says Dutch photographer Wim van Egmond, who has won numerous awards for his photomicrographs.
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Science Friday: Tying Water in a Knot
Physicists report making fluid knots. They are like smoke rings--but made of water and shaped like a pretzel instead of a donut.
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Science Friday: Making Tissues From Water Droplets?
Reporting in Science, Gabriel Villar and colleagues say that tiny water droplets can be engineered to work together sort of like cells -- moving in concert, passing electrical signals. Villar built a machine that fabricates these...
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Science Friday: Digital Gets Physical
Students in MIT's Tangible Media Group break down the barriers of graphic interfaces and allow users to touch and manipulate pixels in real life.
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Science Friday: Conflicts of Interest
How deep are the ties between on-campus research and private companies? By creating public/private partnerships involving academic research, are we risking scientific integrity?
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Science Friday: What Would You Do for Science?
In this segment, we'll talk about some of the most bizarre science experiments of all time and check in with some of the people who participated in them.