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Science Friday: Tornado Outbreak
Science Friday discusses a tornado outbreak that killed more than fifty people in southern United States, and illustrates the conditions needed for tornado formation.
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Science Friday: The Zookeeper's Wife
Ira Flato talks with Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife, a new book about the Holocaust, World War II, and the Warsaw Zoo.
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Science Friday: Kepler Telescope Narrows Hunt for Earth's Twin
NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and another which orbits its star in the "Goldilocks zone," where liquid water could exist.
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Science Friday: Searching for a Ghost Bird
Tim Gallagher, editor of Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine, describes an expedition to try to save the woodpecker, and talks about his own survival during the experience.
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Science Friday: What Grosses You Out?
Rachel Herz discusses her book That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, and shares the origins of this general feeling of disgust as well as human attitudes toward gross things.
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Science Friday: Nasa Probes Set to Orbit the Moon Over New Year's
During a NASA mission when twin probes were near the moon, the mission's chief scientist talked about its objective, to study lunar gravity.
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Science Friday: Sizing Up Americans in the Weight of the Nation
Can a new documentary series help shrink America's growing weight problem?
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Science Friday: Massive "Phoenix Cluster" Supersizes Star Creation
Astronomers have found a massive galaxy cluster that's making stars at a record pace.
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Science Friday: What Would You Do for Science?
In this segment, we'll talk about some of the most bizarre science experiments of all time and check in with some of the people who participated in them.
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Science Friday: The Pros and Cons of Bioprospecting
Science, technology, and other cool stuff from the folks behind public radio's Science Friday. It's brain fun, for curious people.
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Science Friday: Disguising Secret Messages, in a Game of Spy vs. Spy
Steganographic techniques allow a message to be hidden inside a more ordinary looking photo, video, or text.
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Science Friday: Tracking the Spread of a Nasty Virus
Disease detectives track a viral illness outbreak to a reusable shopping bag.
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Science Friday: Building Up the Immune System in Plastic
Researchers have made plastic nanoparticles that can partially mimic the behavior of natural antibodies in the bloodstream of a living animal.
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Science Friday: On Beyond Blimps
This week, the US Army announced it would award $517 million towards the development of three 'Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle systems' -- advanced blimps.
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Science Friday: Mineral Mapping
This week brought reports of impressive mineral deposits beneath Afghanistan -- but how were those deposits identified and mapped? We'll talk about some of the remote sensing technology used.
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Science Friday: Science Diction: X Ray
How did the word 'x-ray' come to be?
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Science Friday: Geek My Halloween
Let's move beyond the dry ice in the punchbowl and the motion-sensor-triggered loop of recorded screams. What geeky pursuits can be applied to the celebration of Halloween? From finding the appropriate costume to designing the perfect...
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Science Friday: Some Projects to Try on Your Summer Vacation (Or Perhaps Not)
We'll give you some ideas for safe -- and not so safe -- science experiments that you may be tempted to try at home.
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Science Friday: What I Did on My Summer Vacation
What things related to science, technology, or the environment did YOU do this summer? Call in and tell us what you did on your summer vacation, and how you did it.
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Science Friday: Geek Update What's the Word?
Last week, while talking with the author of the book 'Geek Dad,' Ira suggested that perhaps it was time to 'rebrand' the word geek in the face of it becoming too popular. Listeners reacted strongly. We'll talk about some of your...
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Science Friday: Cooking for Geeks
Do you like to experiment with your food? We'll talk with the author of a new book about science, technology, and DIY hacks in the kitchen.
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Science Friday: Instructables Halloween
Need to put a little geek in your Halloween? We'll get tips from the folks at Instructables about incorporating some engineering DIY into your spookfest.
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Science Friday: Video Pick: Printing in 3 D
3D printers allow rapid prototyping of designs, and computer-aided construction of complex shapes.
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Science Friday: Science Looks at the Sibling Effect
Author Jeffrey Kluger describes current scientific research into the effects of sibling relationships on human behavior.