Science Friday discusses a tornado outbreak that killed more than fifty people in southern United States, and illustrates the conditions needed for tornado formation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

During a NASA mission when twin probes were near the moon, the mission's chief scientist talked about its objective, to study lunar gravity.

Can a new documentary series help shrink America's growing weight problem?

Astronomers have found a massive galaxy cluster that's making stars at a record pace.

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.

Science, technology, and other cool stuff from the folks behind public radio's Science Friday. It's brain fun, for curious people.

Steganographic techniques allow a message to be hidden inside a more ordinary looking photo, video, or text.

Disease detectives track a viral illness outbreak to a reusable shopping bag.

Researchers have made plastic nanoparticles that can partially mimic the behavior of natural antibodies in the bloodstream of a living animal.

This week, the US Army announced it would award $517 million towards the development of three 'Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle systems' -- advanced blimps.

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.

How did the word 'x-ray' come to be?

We'll give you some ideas for safe -- and not so safe -- science experiments that you may be tempted to try at home.

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.

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...

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.

3D printers allow rapid prototyping of designs, and computer-aided construction of complex shapes.

Author Jeffrey Kluger describes current scientific research into the effects of sibling relationships on human behavior.

His simple-yet-complex cube puzzle took the world by storm in the 1980s. Ira talks with Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube, about science and engineering.

In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker argues that violence is decreasing.