Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Hobbit Debate
Are the 'hobbit bones' found in an Indonesian cave from a different species, or from modern humans suffering from bone deformations?
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Science Friday: The Two Cultures, Fifty Years On
Are the humanities and the sciences irrevocably divided?
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Science Friday: Stomach Bug May Help Battle Asthma
Could a bacterium thought to be responsible for stomach ulcers help ward off childhood asthma?
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Science Friday: Research Misconduct
How well does science police itself? We'll talk what researchers do when they encounter misdeeds.
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Science Friday: Looking at the Ethics of Personalized Medicine
One of the biggest promises offered by research into human genetics is the prospect of 'personalized medicine.' But is personalized necessarily good?
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Science Friday: Video Pick: Space Eggs
What happens when you spin eggs in space?
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Science Friday: Video Pick of the Week: Boulder Field
A trip to a geologic attraction: a boulder field.
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Science Friday: Synthetic Windpipe Transplant Boost for Tissue Engineering
American cancer patient gets the world's second synthetic trachea transplant.
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Science Friday: Weekends at Bellevue
Have you ever wondered what the weekend shift might be like in a major city's psychiatric emergency room?
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Science Friday: Who's an Expert?
With technology placing endless information at our fingertips, has 'expertise' changed its meaning?
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Science Friday: Making New Year's Resolutions Stick
Why do people make, keep, and break their New Year's resolutions?
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Science Friday: Towards a Super Lens or Invisibility?
Ira talks with one of the researchers behind a material that can make light bend in unusual ways -- potentially leading to more powerful optics, or even a cloak of invisibility.
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Science Friday: Science Diction the Origin of the Word "Radio"
Scientists originally used 'radio' to refer to devices that employed electromagnetic radiation.
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Science Friday: New Tuberculosis Strain Thwarts All Antibiotics
Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug, discusses the possible origins of the strain.
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Science Friday: Inventing the Movies: Edison to the I Pod
We'll look at how Hollywood became a driving force in the invention of new technologies.
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Science Friday: Neuroscience Meeting Highlights
We'll talk about some of the research presented this week at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
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Science Friday: Listening to Wild Soundscapes
What can we learn from 'soundscape ecology,' a new field of biology?
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Science Friday: Synthetic Genome
Researchers have built an artificial copy of a bacterium's genome from scratch in the lab.
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Science Friday: Scientists Scour Genome for Clues About Disease
New technology in genetics has allowed researchers to sift through the human genome looking for possible genetic connections to all types of diseases.
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Science Friday: What Put the Heat in Chili Peppers?
New research indicates that chili pepper plants may have developed their signature heat as a way to fight off fungal infections caused by insects.
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Science Friday: Facial Recognition
Photo management programs such as Picasa and iPhoto can pick out a snapshot of your cousin Dave from a stack of party pictures -- but what about more complex uses of facial recognition in less controlled situations? [35 mins. 42]
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Science Friday: Life, but Not as We Know It
Researchers report that they've found a strain of bacteria that can swap arsenic for the element phosphorus in its metabolism -- even incorporating arsenic into its DNA.
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Science Friday: Video Pick: A Snowflake Solution
It's the time of year when people think about snow. We'll tell you how you can grow your own snowflakes. Well, sort of.
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Science Friday: Looking Forward to a Year of Science
A yearlong celebration of science kicks off to honor scientific methods and discoveries.