Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Rumbling Underground, an Engineering Feat
Ira Flatow and guests discuss how engineers carved out Manhattan to build the New York City subway.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Inspiring Young Engineers
It's National Engineers Week -- we'll check in on the celebration, and talk about how to encourage an interest in engineering among young women.
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Science Friday: Nsf Director Subra Suresh
Ira talks with Subra Suresh, incoming director of the National Science Foundation, about national research priorities.
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Science Friday: Scientists and Advocacy?
A group of climate researchers has banded together to speak out on climate change, providing a unified voice against climate policy skeptics. But should that be the role for scientists?
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Science Friday: A Trip to a Comet
Last week, a NASA mission paid a visit to comet Hartley 2, flying by at a distance of just a few hundred miles. We'll talk about what they learned in this audio lecture. [12:12]
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Science Friday: Video Pick: We Like Lichens
Not a fungus, not a plant - both? Neither?
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Science Friday: Spooky Science: Quantum Entanglement
In the quantum world, physics can get pretty strange.
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Science Friday: Frans De Waal and 'The Age of Empathy'
Is it human nature to be greedy and selfish? Primatologist Frans de Waal doesn't think so. In his new book "The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons For a Kinder Society" de Waal says empathy and solidarity are our primate heritage. De Waal...
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Science Friday: Science and Morality
In this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk with philosophers and scientists about the origins of human values.
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Science Friday: No Fear
Researchers are studying the brain and behavior of a woman known as SM. She lives in a world without fear -- a condition the researchers believe is due to a lack of function in her amygdala.
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Science Friday: Titan's Chemistry and the Search for Life
Two recent papers involving the amounts of certain hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan had some media outlets abuzz with talk of extraterrestrial life. We'll talk about what the researchers actually observed, and what it might mean.
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Science Friday: Video Pick of the Week: Bubble Physics
High-speed, high-definition video reveals the secret world of popping bubbles.
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Science Friday: Multitasking
Listen to this segment while you work on the computer, make dinner, or go for a drive.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Middle Aged Brain
The author of a new book on the middle-aged brain talks about why owners of an aging brain shouldn't necessarily fear their next birthday.
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Science Friday: Pollen
Got allergies? We'll talk about the biology and physics of pollen.
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Science Friday: What's Your Doctor Writing? Checking Your Medical Records
A movement seeks to give patients easier access to notes taken by doctors during medical visits.
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Science Friday: Creating Memories
Researchers have used pulses of light to store the memory of a bad event that never actually happened into the brains of fruit flies. We'll talk about how, and why.
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Science Friday: Moon in Review
Last week, NASA crashed a probe into the surface of the moon in search of water, just weeks after two other teams reported finding their own clues to the presence of water in the lunar soil. We'll get a wrapup on the hunt for water on...
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Science Friday: A Virus and Chronic Fatigue?
Researchers have identified a link between the presence of a virus known as XMRV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but what does the presence of such a link mean? [10:32]
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Science Friday: Surveying the Heliosphere
A series of journal articles published this week draw a new picture of our solar system's heliosphere, the bubble carved out in the interstellar medium by the solar wind.
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Science Friday: Climate Policy Who's Who
We get the forecast for domestic climate change policy in the months ahead.
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Science Friday: Cancer Genome Sequenced
Researchers studying the genetics of cancer have sequenced the complete cancer genome of a person with acute myeloid leukemia. We'll talk with one of the scientists on the project about the work and what researchers hope to learn from...
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Science Friday: New Mammography Guidelines
New guidelines published this week by a government advisory panel suggest that women delay the start of routine mammograms until they're 50 years old.
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Science Friday: Coffee and Prostate Cancer
A study finds a link between increased coffee intake and decreased prostate cancer risk in men.