From snake skins to bear teeth, White's office is not short on artifacts.

How do you become a scientist? "It's really easy: you start out as a little kid and then you never grow up," says explorer and biologist Sylvia Earle. Step into her office.

Meet a Polaroid camera that weighs 235 pounds and takes 2-foot-tall instant snapshots.

Michele Bertomen and David Boyle bought an empty 20-by-40-foot lot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and built a home constructed from shipping containers.

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.

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?

Science, technology, and other cool stuff from the folks behind public radio's Science Friday. It's brain fun, for curious people.

What things related to science, technology, or the environment did YOU do this summer? Call in and tell us what you did on your summer vacation, and how you did it.

Do you like to experiment with your food? We'll talk with the author of a new book about science, technology, and DIY hacks in the kitchen.

Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku takes Science Friday on a tour of his office.

The Planetary Society plans to power a spacecraft using the pressure of sunlight reflecting off huge solar sails.

Are there some challenges that are beyond us, despite money, intelligence, and desire?

Efforts to implement a 'top kill,' pumping heavy mud into the broken riser pipe coming from the Deepwater Horizon oil well, are in progress, with hopeful signs.

Cowpooling? Frolleagues? Wired magazine's "Jargon Watch" columnist runs down the top tech jargon terms of 2008.

The human body contains more than 100 trillion cells, with an average size of 10 micrometers and mass of 1 nanogram. But how did the word 'cell' come to be?

It's one of the most feared medical conditions. But how did 'cancer' get its name?

In this month's Science Diction, we look at the origins of the word 'comet.

Science historian Howard Markel discusses the parallel origins of physician and physics.

A Naval officer coined the term 'antibiotic' in 1860, to describe his opposition to beliefs in alien life.

Historian Howard Markel discusses how clone came to refer to genetic creations like Dolly the sheep.

Yes, we know they're imaginary -- but what would a psychiatrist make of the brain of a zombie?

A consortium of researchers is asking the public to help track signs of a changing climate.

We'll talk about the best -- and worst -- geeky gadgets on the technology market this holiday season.

What can the way we interact with technology teach us about the way we interact with each other?