Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Looking at the Ethics of Personalized Medicine
One of the biggest promises offered by research into human genetics is the prospect of 'personalized medicine.' But is personalized necessarily good?
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Science Friday: Science Funding and the Budget
White House Science Advisor John Holdren on science and spending.
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Science Friday: Playing Cut and Paste With Dna of Living Bacteria
Researchers edited the genomes of living bacteria to work with a new set of genetic instructions.
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Science Friday: Update on Japan's Malfunctioning Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear experts discuss events at the Fukushima Daiichi facility.
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Science Friday: Japan Earthquake May Have Changed Earth's Axis
Changes on the surface can change the way the planet spins.
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Science Friday: Looking for Clouds on Saturn's Moon Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has observed methane rain and surface changes on one of Saturn's moons.
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Science Friday: Nasa Probe Goes Into Mercury's Orbit
On Thursday, the Messenger probe will slow down enough to enter Mercury's orbit. Mission leader Sean Solomon joins us on Fri to talk about it.
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Science Friday: Medicine, Murder and the History of Transfusion
A new book traces the early history of blood transfusions.
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Science Friday: Building a Brainbow
Researchers have developed a technique that takes brain mapping to a new level, allowing them to label individual neurons in the brain in different colors.
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Science Friday: Airplane Air
Who hasn't gotten off a plane blaming the stale cabin air for their stuffy nose, dry throat, and headache? A new study is investigated in this audio lecture that says passengers are partly to blame for bad in-flight air. New research...
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Science Friday: Science and Technology Tourism Destinations
Made your summer vacation plans yet? We'll help pick out science, technology, and environment related destinations that you might want to add to your list.
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Science Friday: Exploring the Science of Flying, From Your Window Seat
A new book looks at the technology and science of airline travel from your window seat. [27 mins. 32 secs.]
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Science Friday: Science and the Budget
This week, President Obama unveiled his proposed budget for 2011. We'll talk about how the proposed budget might affect science.
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Science Friday: Tracking Near Earth Objects
The US spends $4 million each year to search for comets or asteroids that could threaten the planet. That's not enough to get the job done, according to a new report from the National Research Council.
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Science Friday: Mars Rover to Rove No Longer
This week, NASA announced that Spirit, one of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, appears to be permanently stuck in Martian soil, and that the rover would now be used only as a stationary observation platform.
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Science Friday: Free the Rover
NASA scientists are still trying to free the Spirit rover, which has been stuck in Martian soil since April. After a long period of study, the rover pilots began a careful series of maneuvers designed to back Spirit out of its sand trap....
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Science Friday: Lunar Impact Mission Update
Friday, NASA scientists announced that they had found 'a significant amount' of lunar water through the recent LCROSS lunar impact mission.
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Science Friday: Time, Space, and Other Big Questions
Ira talks with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about his new book about the nature of time. Did time and space exist before the Big Bang?
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Science Friday: Trailblazing Mars
What would it take for humans to be able to live and work on Mars?
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Science Friday: Is Settling Mars Inevitable, or an Impossibility?
In The Case for Mars, Robert Zubrin argues that humans should colonize the Red Planet.
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Science Friday: Tropical Medicine Update
We'll check in on the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting and talk about highlights from the conference.
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Science Friday: Big Bang Theory
We'll talk with the executive producer of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory about packing science into a television comedy.
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Science Friday: A One Way Trip to Mars?
Listen to an interview with cosmologist Lawrence Krauss as he discusses whether a human expedition to Mars should involve a return trip to the Earth. [10:50]
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Science Friday: Moon Movie
We talk with director Duncan Jones about his recent science fiction movie 'Moon.