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Each week we’ll round up links to science stories or studies that blow our mind, tickle our funny bone, or generally strike our fancy.
Each week we’ll round up links to science stories or studies that blow our mind, tickle our funny bone, or generally strike our fancy.
In the mood for water beetles marinated in ginger and soy sauce? How about some mealworm spaghetti?
Each week we’ll round up links to science stories or studies that blow our mind, tickle our funny bone, or generally strike our fancy.
Each week we’ll round up links to science stories or studies that blow our mind, tickle our funny bone, or generally strike our fancy.
Newly released science standards expect students to be capable of designing experiments and making evidence-based arguments.
Each week we’ll round up links to science stories or studies that blow our mind, tickle our funny bone, or generally strike our fancy.
Today is National DNA Day, an annual tribute to of the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953.
NPR's continuing live coverage of events in Boston will preempt today's Science Friday. The recorded April 19th program will be broadcast nationwide in our regularly scheduled timeslot on a later date.
Any orange-and-black beauties in your neck of the woods? Add a photo to our Spring Monarch Migration 2013 Google map.
Patients once considered insensitive to fear can experience the sensation in response to internal triggers, a new study shows.
Clay Bolt, co-founder of the Meet Your Neighbours photo project, shares some of his shots.
A roundup of live streams that will let you watch the approach of asteroid 2012 DA14 online.
How much do you know about the object heading our way?
Here are some ideas to get the conversation started.
What do you want to know about living and working in space?
Email your pics to photos@sciencefriday.com with Sandy in the subject line.
Today the SciFri Book Club will talk about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman's book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman." What did you think of the book?
In the mid to late 1800's, it seems we had a widespread fear of being buried alive -- a fear you can see played out in the quantity of patents issued to inventors hoping to innovate coffin technology.
The "percussion" in this song, by Science Groove, consists of actual sounds generated by a 1.5-Tesla NMR machine.
In the chapter about topology in his book The Joy of X, Steven Strogatz writes about Vi Hart, a "full-time recreational mathemusician," who created this Möbius music box.
Attention 10 to 12-year-olds! Alan Alda wants to know what question you would like scientists to answer.
Hi SciFri Book Club members! We want to hear what you thought of the book.
Depending where you live, you may have recently started to see an influx of orange and black winged visitors. The monarch butterflies have begun their fall migration.
Just how clean is a clean room? And what goes on there?
Meet Animaris gubernare and Animaris adulari, two of kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen's strandbeests.
Students, NASA needs your help to find the perfect name for a near-Earth asteroid that will be visited by spacecraft later this decade.
This video, composed of NASA archive material and put together by Stephen Slater, is not just an excellent tribute to the first man to walk on the moon, but it's also a nostalgic snapshot of the early days of America's manned space program.
In a different take on the "cute cat video," a high speed camera records the movements of GiGi the stunt cat as she flips herself over to land smartly on her feet.
A NASA engineer shares what he calls "one of the coolest moments of my life so far."
A roundup of Science Friday coverage of recent breakthroughs in the detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Last week, ScienceDebate released its list of 14 of the most important science questions facing the nation, based on submissions from thousands of scientists, engineers, and concerned citizens.
Want to talk about dark matter? Dark energy? Pluto's 5th moon? The new "spy" telescopes NASA inherited? We'll be looking to you to shape Friday's conversation with Nobel Prize winner Adam G. Riess.
It's sweltering outside the SciFri offices, so we've happily paid extra attention to Antarctica this week.
How much do you know about the science of performance-enhancing drugs?
The Science Friday Book Club met for the first time last week to talk about Rachel Carson’s classic book, "Silent Spring." If you missed the show (or you’re eager for more book talk) we've compiled some tweets and comments from listeners, along with some links we like.
Have you made your own pickles before? How'd they turn out? If you have a favorite pickle recipe, please share.
Thank you everyone who submitted a photo to our transit of Venus photo contest. You captured some stunning images!
What killed Spider-Man's girlfriend Gwen Stacy? In the infamous comic The Night Gwen Stacy Died, was it the fall from the George Washington bridge that killed her? Or was it whiplash from being caught by Spidey's web?
It's time to head out to the library or your favorite book store and pick up a copy of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
Check out our photo gallery of objects created by 3D printers. Then, take our quiz to test how well you know the capabilities and limits of current 3D printing technology.
Check out the ten finalists in our transit of Venus photo contest.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) recently announced the buildings they will honor in 2012 and boy are they beauties!
Not all beach reads are spy novels or space operas. Science Friday is hosting a science book club, and our fans recommended these science-related books. Have suggestions? Leave them in the comments.
Any SciFri listeners catch a glimpse of Venus last week? Were you able to snap a photo of the not-to-be-repeated-this-lifetime event? Submit your entry to our Transit of Venus Photo Contest by posting your photo to our Facebook page or by e-mailing it to photos@sciencefriday.com.
Mountaineer and former Science Friday guest Conrad Anker will attempt to reach the peak of Mt. Everest tonight.
Coming up this Friday as part of a story on urban agriculture we'll talk with Tama Matsuoka Wong, author of Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer's Market. She shared with us some recipes.
What would you ask the presidential candidates if you had a chance?
Coming up this Friday, we'll talk with the executive producer of The Weight of the Nation, HBO's new four-part documentary that looks at the causes and effects of being overweight and obese in America.
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