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Science Friday: High Tech Meets High Art in "Modernist Cuisine"

9th - 10th
An interview with Nathan Myhrvold, author of the 6-volume cookbook, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. Myhrvold uses tools and materials normally confined to a science lab. Aired July 1, 2011 [20:26 min]
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Science Friday: The Idea Factory: How Bell Labs Created the Future

9th - 10th
Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, talks about the many revolutionary innovations that were developed at AT&T's Bell Labs, and how it came about that new ideas flourished...
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Science Friday: Towards Test Tube Meat?

9th - 10th
In this segment, Science Friday talks about the possibility, and how close science is to being able to grow a lab-made steak for your weekend cookout. [17:48]
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Science Friday: Silk Stretches Drugs' Shelf Life to New Lengths

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David Kaplan, a biomedical engineer, discusses his lab's research into how to store vaccines and antibiotics without refrigeration. Their method involves wrapping them in silk. It holds great promise for making these medicines more...
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Science Friday: The Look of Love

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News you can use for Valentine's Day: When you gaze into your sweetheart's eyes, look for enlarged pupils. Psychologist Bruno Laeng, of the University of Oslo, says our pupils don't just respond to light, but to thoughts too. Studies...
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Science Friday: Its Budget Sunk, Undersea Lab May Have to Surface

9th - 10th
Now that federal funds have dried up, Florida's Aquarius undersea lab faces an uncertain future.
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Science Friday: From Lab to Pharmacy

9th - 10th
This week, Harold Varmus was sworn in as director of the National Cancer Institute. He's no stranger to government science, having headed the NIH during the 1990s before a stint as head of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr...
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Science Friday: A Robot Lab to Survey the Sea Floor

9th - 10th
Imagine a robotic lab that can sample ocean organisms on its own and perform DNA analysis of what it finds. Learn how researchers are developing a DNA-sampling robot for undersea exploration in this audio lecture. [12:22]
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Science Friday: Hurricane Sandy Claims Thousands of Nyu Lab Mice

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One of the casualties of Hurricane Sandy was the death of thousands of lab mice due to flooding at New York University. What impact on important scientific research will this have? For example, mice are critical in brain research. Aired...
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Science Friday: Citizen Science Projects for the New Year

9th - 10th
No lab? No Ph.D.? No problem. Sign on for some citizen science.
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Science Friday: Searching for a Ghost Bird

9th - 10th
Tim Gallagher, editor of Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine, describes an expedition to try to save the woodpecker, and talks about his own survival during the experience.
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Science Friday: With Shutdown Over, Scientists Assess the Damage

9th - 10th
Government labs are turning on their lights but many Antarctic scientists are still in limbo.
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Science Friday: New Fusion Facility

9th - 10th
Last week, a new fusion research facility was dedicated in California. We'll talk about the lab and what it hopes to achieve.
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Science Friday: Synthetic Genome

9th - 10th
Researchers have built an artificial copy of a bacterium's genome from scratch in the lab.
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Science Friday: This Fish Sucks

9th - 10th
Adam Summers of the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Labs details how the northern clingfish takes the art of suction to new heights.
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Science Friday: At Streb Action Lab, Dance and Physics Collide

9th - 10th
Choreographer and gravity-junkie Elizabeth Streb pushes the boundaries of Newtonian physics with dance.
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Science Friday: Male Researchers May Increase Stress in Lab Mice

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The gender of a researcher might influence the stress levels of laboratory mice.
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Science Friday: Martian Lab Made in Manhattan

9th - 10th
What's it like to build tools for Curiosity? Intense.

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