Science Friday
Episodes
Measles, Poetry Month, Lemur Hibernation. April 26, 2019, Part 2
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 1963, before the development of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, there were 4 million cases of measles every year. It took nearl...
Degrees of Change: Sponge Cities and Pocket Prairies. April 26, 2019, Part 1
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is happening—now we need to deal with it. Degrees of Change, a new series of hour-long radio specials from Science Friday, explores...
5G, Pig Brains, Privacy For Nature. April 19, 2019, Part 1
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, President Trump announced a new initiative to push forward the implementation of 5G, the next generation of wireless connectivity for smart...
New Human Species, Census, Plankton, Brain Etchings. April 19, 2019, Part 2
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, researchers announced they’d found the remains of a new species of ancient human on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It was just a...
Year In Space Results, Citizen Science Day, Cherry Blossoms. April 12, 2019, Part 2
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To find out what was happening to astronauts over longer periods of space flight, NASA put together a 10-team study of twin astronauts Scott and Mark ...
Event Horizon Telescope, Biosphere 2. April 12, 2019, Part 1
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“As I like to say, it’s never a good idea to bet against Einstein,” astrophysicist Shep Doeleman told Science Friday back in 2016, when the Even...
SciFri Extra: Picturing A Black Hole
06 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Event Horizon Telescope is tackling one of the largest cosmological challenges ever undertaken: Take an image of the supermassive black hole at th...
Right-To-Repair, Exercise Recovery, Gov. Inslee. April 5, 2019, Part 2
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever your smartphone or video game console breaks down, you usually have to go back to the manufacture or a technician affiliated with the company...
Coal Ash, Soil Loss, Sap, Bristlecone Pines. April 5, 2019, Part 1
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Maple tapping season is underway in the sugar maple stands of the United States. Warm days and below-freezing nights kick off a cycle of sap flow cruc...
Poetry of Science, The Power of Calculus. March 29, 2019, Part 2
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
April is National Poetry Month, a time of readings, outreach programs, and enthusiastic celebration of the craft. And for a special Science Friday cel...
Growing Glaciers, Expanding Universe, Flu Near You. March 29, 2019, Part 1
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, everything in the universe was crammed into a very small space. Then came the Big Bang, and the universe has been expanding ever sin...
A.I. And Doctors, Alzheimer’s. March 22, 2019, Part 2
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When you go to the doctor’s office, it can sometimes seem like wait times are getting longer while face time with your doctor is getting shorter. In...
House Science Committee, Superbloom, Snowpack. March 22, 2019, Part 1
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a changing of the guard in the U.S. House of Representatives. In January, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a democrat from Texas, ...
Frans de Waal, Inactive Ingredients, Street View, and Gentrification. March 15, 2019, Part 2
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Primatologist Frans de Waal has spent his lifetime studying the lives of animals, especially our closest cousins, the chimpanzees. de Waal has observe...
Youth Climate Protest, Science Talent Search Winners, Snowflake Changes. March 15, 2019, Part 1
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It all started with 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Last August, Thunberg started skipping school on Fridays to protest outside Swe...
SciFri Extra: Celebrating The Elements
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a favorite chemical element? Neurologist Oliver Sacks did—he was partial to dense, high melting-point metals, especially those metals be...
HIV Remission, Bones, Jumping Spiders. March 8, 2019, Part 2
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly twelve years ago, a cancer patient infected with HIV received two bone marrow transplants to wipe out his leukemia. Now, researchers in the Un...
NASA Administrator, California Wildfires, Lichens. March 8, 2019, Part 1
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On December 14, 1972, as Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan prepared to board the lunar module, he gave one last dispatch from the lunar surface. And ...
Icefish, Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Wireless Baby Monitoring. March 1, 2019, Part 2
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During an electrical system test early in in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. The disaster at t...
Synthetic Genomes, Climate Panel, Local Recycling. March 1, 2019, Part 1
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DNA is the universal programming language for life, and the specific code to that program are the combination of the base pairs adenine, guanine, cyto...
SciFri Extra: A Night Of Volcanoes And Earthquakes With N.K. Jemisin
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Science Friday Book Club discussion of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season may have stopped erupting for the season, but we have one more piece of v...
Black Holes, California Megaflood. Feb 22, 2019, Part 2
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When it floods in California, the culprit is usually what’s known as an atmospheric river—a narrow ribbon of ultra-moist air moving in from over t...
Telescope Decisions, Grape Plasma, Israeli Moon Lander. Feb 22, 2019, Part 1
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The American Astronomical Society meeting is the largest annual gathering of astronomers and astrophysicists. It’s not known for drama. But this yea...
SciFri Book Club: ‘The Fifth Season.’ Feb 15, 2019, Part 1
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this final installment of the winter Book Club, we wrap up a winter of exploring The Stillness, learning how volcanologists research lava flows a...
Declining Insects, Sunny Day Flooding, Liquid Rules. Feb 15, 2019, Part 2
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
That once vibrant forest has gotten quieter and emptier, as many of the insects— and the animals that depend on them—have disappeared. In a wo...
Earth’s Core, Govt Data In The Cloud, Book Club. Feb 8, 2019, Part 1
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the very center of the Earth is a solid lump of iron and nickel that might be as hot as the surface of the Sun. This solid core is thought to be wh...
Buttons, Grand Canyon Maps, Mosquitoes. Feb 8, 2019, Part 2
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The button is everywhere. It allows us to interact with our computers and technology, alerts us when someone is at the front door, and with a tap, can...
Digital Art, Lava Lab, Desalination. Feb 1, 2019, Part 1
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A series of lines on a wall, drawn by museum staff, from instructions written by an artist. A textile print made from scanning the screen of an Apple ...
Sleep and the Immune System, Measuring Carbon, Specimens of Hair. Feb 1, 2019, Part 2
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some citizen scientists collect minerals or plants. But 19th-century lawyer Peter A. Browne collected hair—lots and lots of hair. His collection sta...
Weather Advances, Listening to Volcanoes, Phragmites. Jan 25, 2019, Part 1
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Your smartphone gives you up-to-the-minute weather forecast updates at the tap of a button. Every newscast has a weather segment. And outlets like the...
Medical Conflict Of Interest, Saturn’s Rings, Bear Brook Podcast. Jan 25, 2019, Part 2
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Most scientific journals go by the honor system when it comes to conflicts of interest: They ask, and the researchers tell. But that system might be d...
SciFri Extra: ‘Behind The Sheet’ Of Gynecology’s Darker History
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The 19th-century physician J. Marion Sims may have gone down in history as the “father of modern gynecology,” but Sims’ fistula cure was the res...
Gynecology’s Dark History, Antarctic Ice, Moon Craters. Jan 18, 2019, Part 2
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nineteenth-century physician J. Marion Sims has gone down in history as the “father of modern gynecology.” He invented the speculum, devised body ...
Book Club, Green New Deal, Louisiana Shrimpers. Jan 18, 2019, Part 1
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a world roiled continuously by earthquakes, volcanoes, and other tectonic disasters large and small, a cataclysmic earthquake is about to change th...
Shutdown and Science, Smartphone and Overdoses. Jan 11, 2019, Part 1
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The partial shutdown of the U.S. government is approaching its third week, and it has caused a backlog for scientists employed or funded by the govern...
Heart and Exercise, Consumer Electronics Show, Black Holes. Jan 11, 2019, Part 2
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard the news that smoking is bad for your health. But it turns out not exercising could be even worse for your chances of survival, accordi...
Diets, Crowd Physics, Snowflake Citizen Science. January 4, 2019, Part 1
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this week, hundreds of thousands of revelers huddled together under the pouring rain in Times Square for an annual tradition: to watch the New...
Winter Birding. January 4, 2019, Part 2
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every year in the dead of winter, bird lovers flock in large numbers to count as many birds as they possibly can on a single day. This is the Audubon ...
2018 Scifri Year In Review. Dec 28, 2018, Part 1
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, natural disasters around the world bore the unmistakable fingerprints of human-caused climate change. The federal government’s 1,600-page N...
American Eden, New Horizons To Ultima Thule. Dec 28, 2018, Part 2
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every holiday season, tourists throng Rockefeller Center to see the famous tree, soaring above the paved plazas and fountains. But more than 200 years...
Fetal Cell Research, Schadenfreude, Deer Disease. Dec 21, 2018, Part 2
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is cracking down on federal scientists seeking fetal tissue for their work, while it conducts a “comprehensive review” of...
Food Myths, Kids Flu Shot, Europe Plastics Ban. Dec 21, 2018, Part 1
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve probably heard of the five second rule, when you drop a cookie on the floor and take a bite anyway because it’s only been a few seconds. Wh...
Future Telescopes, Caterpillars. Dec 14, 2018, Part 2
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
28 years ago, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery gently raised the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST, up from the shuttle bay, and released it int...
Cancer Immunotherapy, Raccoons, Frog Calls. Dec 14, 2018, Part 1
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For years, cancer treatment has largely involved one of three options—surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. In recent years, however, a new treatment...
Microbes and Art, Science Books 2018. Dec 7, 2018, Part 2
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Science Friday, our jobs involve reading a lot of science books every year. We have piles and piles of them at the office. Hundreds of titles ...
Hemp and CBD, Phytosaurs, Mosquito Control. Dec 7, 2018, Part 1
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Good news could be coming soon for anyone interested in hemp, the THC-free, no-high strain of cannabis whose use ranges from fibers to food to pharmac...
Gene-Editing Humans, Asymmetry, Ancient Whale Ancestor. Nov 30, 2018, Part 2
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The first CRISPR-edited babies are (probably) here. The news raises social, ethical, and regulatory questions—for both scientists and society. Then,...
Climate Report, Wind Energy, SciFri Educator Collaborative. Nov 30, 2018, Part 1
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This Monday, Mars fans rejoiced as NASA’s lander Mars InSight successfully parachuted safely onto the large, flat plain of Elysium Planitia. In the ...
2018 Ig Nobel Prizes. Nov 23, 2018, Part 1
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When you go to the zoo, maybe you imitate the chimps, copying their faces, their gestures, or their walk. But it turns out the chimps imitate you just...
Caves And Climate, Environmental Archeology, Scanning The Past. Nov 23, 2018, Part 2
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of an archaeologist, you might imagine a scientist in the field wielding shovels and pickaxes, screening through dirt to uncover artifa...
California Fires, Fire Engineering, Flu Near You. Nov 16, 2018, Part 1
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When wildfires strike, the conversation typically centers around natural factors: forest management, climate change, or hot dry winds that fan the fla...
Smell Science, Reader Come Home, Sonar Smackdown. Nov 16, 2018, Part 2
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you had to give up one of your senses, which would you pick? If you think that “smell” might be the obvious answer, consider that your nose pla...
Immigration and the Microbiome, Spice Trends. Nov 9, 2018, Part 1
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
‘Tis the season for pumpkin spice lattes. Even if you’re not a fan of the fall beverage, we’ve all been touched by the 15-year dominance of Star...
Heart History, Disease Seasonality, Beatboxing. Nov 9, 2018, Part 2
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The case presented a medical mystery. A man had entered his doctor’s office complaining of chest pain, so his doctors ordered an angiogram, an X-ray...
Physics Mysteries, Appendix and Parkinson’s, Paralysis Treatment. Nov 2, 2018, Part 2
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered why your dog’s back-and-forth shaking is so effective at getting you wet? Or how bugs, birds, and lizards can run across water—but w...
Local Science Issues, Dolphin Calls, Kepler Death. Nov 2, 2018, Part 1
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With the midterm elections less than a week away, science is on voters’ minds even when it’s not on the ballot. From coastal floods in Florida, to...
Science Goes To The Movies: First Man, Driverless Car Ethics, Beetle Battles. Oct 26, 2018, Part 2
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Damien Chazelle’s film First Man reconstructs the personal trials of astronaut Neil Armstrong in the years leading up to his famous first steps on...
Blood, Spatial Memory, Gerrymandering. Oct 26, 2018, Part 1
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Blood is essential to human life—it runs through all of our bodies, keeping us alive—but the life-giving liquid can also have a mysterious, almost...
Music And Technology, Social Critters, Sleep And Genetics. Oct 19, 2018, Part 2
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Ramos Nishita, more popularly known as Money Mark from the Beastie Boys, has created the “Echolodeon.” The custom-built machine converts or...
C-Section Increase, Puerto Rican Hurricane Recovery, A Turtle Tiff. Oct 19, 2018, Part 1
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The World Health Organization recommends that the C-section rate should be about 15% of births, for optimal outcomes for mothers and babies. But a ...
Squirrel Monkeys, Salmon Migration, The Realness. Oct 12, 2018, Part 2
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Squirrel monkeys have big brains for their size, they’re chatterboxes, and they’ve even been to space. There may even be parallels between squirre...
Election Security, Channel Islands, IPCC Report. Oct 12, 2018, Part 1
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The voting infrastructure is a vast network that includes voting machines, registration systems, e-poll books, and result reporting systems. This summ...
Dung Beetles, Exomoon, Poison Squad. Oct 5, 2018, Part 2
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was formed in 1906, you might have been more weary of pouring milk over your morning cereal. Milk could ...
Nobels, Argument Logic. Oct 5, 2018, Part 1
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, and medicine awarded its top scientists with its highest honor, the Nobel Prize. And this year...
Water Wars, Air Pollution And Fetuses, Electric Blue Clouds. Sept. 28, 2018, Part 2
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Yemen is gripped by civil war—and some experts say it could be the first of many “water wars” to come, as the planet grows hotter and drier. In ...
Utah National Monuments, North Carolina Coal Ash, Asteroids. Sept. 28, 2018, Part 1
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Back in December, the Trump administration announced reductions to two of Utah’s national monuments: Grand Staircase-Escalante, which runs from th...
Undiscovered Presents: The Magic Machine. Sept. 25, 2018
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As a critical care doctor, Jessica Zitter has seen plenty of “Hail Mary” attempts to save dying patients go bad—attempts where doctors try inter...
Endangered Crow, Hawaiian Biodiversity, Mars Simulation. Sept. 21, 2018, Part 2
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
About five million years ago, the island of Kauai emerged from the ocean waves, and a new chain of island habitats was born, right in the middle of th...
Utah Dino Bones, Salt Lake Migrations, Tree Canopies. Sept. 21, 2018, Part 1
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you stood in southeastern Utah over 200 million years ago, you’d be overlooking the ocean. The landlocked state wasn’t quite the same landscape...
Undiscovered Presents: The Holdout. Sept 18, 2018.
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1980s, Gerta Keller, professor of paleontology and geology at Princeton, has been speaking out against an idea most of us take as scientific...
Soil Future, Plant Feelings, Science Fair. Sept 14, 2018, Part 2
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is increasing temperatures and causing heavier rainfalls across the country. Scientists are studying how these changes will affect diff...
Florence Flooding, Algorithms, Dino Demise. Sept. 14, 2018, Part 1
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, California passed a bill ending the use of cash bail. Instead of waiting in jail or putting down a cash deposit to await trial at home, de...
Undiscovered Presents: I, Robovie. Sept 11, 2018.
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A decade ago, psychologists introduced a group of kids to Robovie, a wide-eyed robot who could talk, play, and hug like a pro. And then, the researche...
Grazing, Work-Life Imbalance. Aug. 7, 2018, Part 2
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Each spring, animals move from their winter grazing grounds in search of greener pastures. For birds, where and when to start that journey is based on...
Tick Repellents, Robot Relationships. Aug. 7, 2018, Part 1
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you were given a robot and asked to break it, would you do it? The amount of Furby destruction videos on Youtube suggest it wouldn’t be that hard...
Eric Kandel and the Disordered Mind, Death. Aug 31, 2018, Part 2
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The human brain contains an estimated 100 billion neurons. When those cells malfunction, the disrupted process can lead to schizophrenia, PTSD, and ot...
Outdoor Influencers, Northwest Passage, Undersea Volcanoes. Aug 31, 2018, Part 1
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
NASA is exploring a deep-sea volcano off the coast of Hawaii as a test run for human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond. The mission, dubbed SUBS...
SciFri Special Edition: A Time Traveler Cocktail Party. Aug 28, 2018.
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009, Stephen Hawking decided to throw a party for time travelers, famously sending the invitations after the date of the party. For the 30th anniv...
Yellow Fever and Ebola, Trans-boundary Aquifers, Probiotics. Aug 24, 2018, Part 2
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From 1976 to 2017, the Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced eight outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus. Then, for 10 weeks earlier this year, t...
Hurricane Lane, Disposable Contacts, Brief History of Time. Aug 24, 2018, Part 1
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year was both the 30th anniversary of Stephen Hawking’s science blockbuster A Brief History of Time, but also the year the famed physicist him...
Ant Traffic Flow, Natural Reactors, David Quammen. August 17, 2018, Part 2
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Worker ants keep the nest alive. They look for food, take care of the eggs, and dig all the tunnels. Fire ant colonies, for example, have hundreds of ...
Coastal Flooding, Elephants and Cancer, Yosemite Bears. August 17, 2018, Part 1
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
More than five years after the devastating 14-foot high waters of Superstorm Sandy flooded New York and New Jersey, the Army Corps of Engineers is stu...
Parch Marks, Wildfires, The Beatles. August 10, 2018, Part 1
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Mendocino Complex fire in northern California has spread to more than 300,000 acres—a swath of land bigger than New York City. The blaze is the ...
The Story Of Sand, Science And Dance. August 10, 2018, Part 2.
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of sand, thoughts of the ocean and sand castles probably come to mind. But sand can be found in much more than beachfronts. Sand is a k...
Bacteria Extinction, Facial Recognition, Solar Probe. August 3, 2018, Part 2
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Long before we walked the Earth, bacteria took it over. They’re in every ecosystem on the Earth, and researchers have hopes to someday find them on ...
"Lost in Math," Alan Alda, A Radical Brain Surgery, New Jersey Floods. August 3, 2018. Part 1
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, physicists trying to uncover the large and small structures of the universe have been coming up empty—no evidence of supersymmetry at t...
PFAS, Urban Evolution, Science Diction. July 27, 2018, Part 1
27 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you thought city life was stressful, imagine being a wild animal trying to outlive speeding cars, toxic chemicals and heavy metals, or even the unn...
Ant Socialization, Smoky Skies, Dust Storm, Mars Lake. July 27, 2018, Part 2
27 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Many ant species have a queen, the member of the colony that lays eggs. The rest of the ants are divided into different roles that support the queen a...
Heredity, Oldest Bread, Jupiter's Moons. July 20, 2018, Part 2
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever taken a peek at your family tree? If you trace back along those branches, you might discover some long ago celebrities, kings, and philo...
Yeast Superbug, Dino Dinner, Toxic Algae. July 20, 2018, Part 1
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you hear the word “superbug,” you’re likely to think about drug-resistant bacteria or even viruses. But in a case that’s been unfolding sin...
Nerve Agents, Straws, Soccer Flops, Happiness. July 13, 2018, Part 2
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Four months ago, an ex-Russian spy and his daughter were hospitalized in the U.K. They came into contact with a substance known as Novichok—a nerve ...
Neutrinos, Book Club, Air Conditioning. July 13, 2018, Part 1
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1988, physicist Stephen Hawking’s wildly popular A Brief History of Time introduced general audiences around the world to scientists’ questio...
19th-Century Surveyor, News Roundup, Eagles' Nests. July 6, 2018, Part 1
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 19th century, the American West was an arid climate yet to be fully explored. But surveyors like geologist John Wesley Powell, the second direc...
Jurassic World, Rhino Comeback, Uranus Collision. July 6, 2018, Part 2
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 25th anniversary of the debut of Jurassic Park. And with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom currently at the top of the summer movie food chain...
Bee News, Summer Science Reading. June 29, 2018, Part 2
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bumblebees and honeybees are two species of bees that form colonies. The colonies of bumblebees are smaller compared to their honeybee cousins, who’...
Beef Genetic Testing, Chasing Whales, Radiolab Gonads. June 29, 2018, Part 1
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Whales are majestic, awe-inspiring animals. Some species can reach up to 150 tons and take in a living room-sized volume of water in one gulp. They ca...
Math And Social Justice, Chicago Coyotes, Meteorites. June 22, 2018, Part 2
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Math isn’t often thought of as a tool for social justice. But mathematical thinking can help us understand what’s going on in society too, says ma...
Alcohol Study, Cephalopod Week, Coral Oasis. June 22 2018, Part 1
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the National Institutes of Health cancelled a $100 million study of alcohol and health after an internal investigation found “early and...
CRISPR, Colors, Narwhals. June 15, 2018, Part 2
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Over less than a decade, the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 has taken the biology world by storm. But two new studies indicate that the...
Dinosaurs, Celebrating Cephalopods. June 15, 2018, Part 1
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Like a kraken rising from the depths (or a cuttlefish emerging from the sand), Cephalopod Week is back! Every year, Science Friday spends a week honor...