Curated Video
How to Move From a 6 to a 7 - IELTS Energy Podcast 1253
Today we present a case study: one student who has worked hard, but still got 6's on IELTS. Why? Where did she go wrong? What did she do right? Find out today so you can change your own IELTS preparation for the better.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ariel Zych - Science Friday Everyday
As Science Friday’s education director, Ariel Zych finds ways to empower parents and educators to excite students about science, engineering, and math. She can be seen around the office making messes with new experiments, planning...
National Parks Service
Glacier National Park - Science Friday - Loon Banding
Did you know that Common Loons are actually not so common here? There are only about 72 pairs of breeding loons in the state – 20% of which live in Glacier National Park. This week on Science Friday, we talk to two researchers involved...
Curated Video
Resources to Prepare for IELTS Environmental Topics
Today we'll talk about 3 interesting and motivating resources to prepare for IELTS environmental topics.
National Parks Service
Glacier National Park - Science Friday - Loon Banding - Audio Described
This is an audio-described video. CREDIT: NPS
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ira Flatow - Science Friday
Ira Flatow is the host of Science Friday, bringing 2 million radio and Internet listeners a lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health, space and the environment. Ira is president of Science Friday, Inc. and founder...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Grasshopper Bot
Researchers built a new bot that can jump 27 times its own height. That's a world record. Learn more about the project.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Finding the Roots of an Ancient Crop
Agave plants, probably best known as the source of tequila, were important as a food crop long before the invention of margaritas. Wendy Hodgson, botanist at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, says the plants were cultivated as far...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Dis Cern This: Large Hadron Rap
An original rap about the Large Hadron Collider--don't miss it. Brought to you by Will Barras, who was a Ph.D. student in the department of linguistics and English language at the University of Edinburgh and science writer (and rapper)...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Letter to a Young Scientist
The father of biodiversity, Edward O. Wilson addresses young scientists. [4:10]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Coolest Lab Ever?
Convincing a rat to run on a treadmill is just another day at the office for the researchers at the Concord Field Station (CFS), a Harvard lab located in Bedford, Mass. The lab focuses on comparative biomechanics, which requires lots of...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Friday in Space
Ira Flatow talks with NASA commander Dan Burbank and flight engineer Don Pettit from the International Space Station. [20:49]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: March of the Immune Cells
Paul Kubes filmed the immune cells, neutrophils finding their way to a mouse's wounded liver. The researchers wanted to understand how neutrophils find injuries when bacteria aren't around to signal the damage. [3:32]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Dive Into Florida's Aquarius Reef Base
Take a tour of the only working undersea lab left today. (no sound)
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Behold the Beauty of the Ant
The founder of AntWeb, an online repository of high-resolution shots of ants, discusses the taxonomy of these insects.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Creating Earth
There's artistry to creating the world, according to Rob Simmon, art director of NASA Earth Observatory. NASA's collection of Earth-from-space imagery dates back to the Apollo 8 mission, when astronauts snapped a picture of Earth rising...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Smart Milk Jug, Invented by Sixth Graders
Check out this intelligent milk pitcher invented by a team of 6th graders from P.S. 126 in New York City. [2:46]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Super Crisp Brains
A new microscope technique produces extra-sharp images of large swaths of the brain. [1:06]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Scoop on Stretchy Ice Cream
A traditional Turkish ice cream stretches like silly putty. Find out about the chemistry that is responsible for the behavior of this dessert. [3:16]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Evidence: Forensic Photography as Art
Artist Angela Strassheim began her career as a forensic photographer in a crime lab. She soon left to focus on art full-time, but she didn't entirely leave the field behind. Her body of work, Evidence, is a documentary art project...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Bird in Hand to Save Those in the Bush
Join orinthologists at Braddock Bay, a prime stop for migrating birds, as they explain what can be learned from the songbirds they observe.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Computer of Bubbles
Bubbles can do computations, says Stanford professor Manu Prakash. Just like electrons running through wires in your computer, Prakash and Neil Gershenfeld, of MIT, directed bubbles through tiny etched tubes and showed basic computations...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Lab Raised Heart
Build them the right home and cells will organize themselves into a tissue. Bioengineer Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, of Columbia University, focuses on designing environments to grow hearts, bones and blood vessels. We stopped by to see a...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Bird Banders
Join a scientist from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as he discusses and demonstrates proper bird banding.