Science Friday: Blood Spotting Made Easier

Whether you use this to lecture on the circulatory system, or assign it for individuals to view, you will be pleased with this PowerPoint. The author invested a lot of time to make it educational, but also entertaining with humorous...

For most of history, people did not know what blood did or how it was created, which made the idea of putting blood into a person sound ludicrous. After years of science, and many extremely negative reactions, scientists have found a way...

This Science Friday looks at the scientific legacy of angiogenesis researcher Judah Folkman. [25:7]

An interview with primatologist Richard Wrangham, the author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. He believes that cooking food led to humans' evolutionary success. Aired Aug. 28, 2009 [28:02]

Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us into his office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City for a tour of his office, in the fourth of Science Friday's Desktop...

Scientists have used the Swedish Solar Telescope to study the stringy perimeter of sunspots, the penumbra, to learn how it forms. Aired June 3, 2011. [2:32]

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]

Scientists discuss a newly discovered moon orbiting Neptune, which is just 12 miles across.

Researchers have discovered that they may be on the brink of developing a blood test to screen for possible Alzheimer's disease. Aired Oct. 19, 2007 [9:20]