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Science Friday: Behold the Mighty Water Bear
Water bears, also known as tardigrades, can survive boiling, freezing, the vacuum of space and years of desiccation. Biologist Bob Goldstein, of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, describes water bears and explains why he...
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Science Friday: Behold the Mighty Water Bear
Meet the water bear, a tiny creature that can withstand boiling, freezing, and the vacuum of space.
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Science Friday: Beijing Grapples With Record Air Pollution
A discussion about how the severe smog is raising concerns about the cost of China's rapid industrialization.
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Science Friday: Behind the Scenes With Inventor and Actor Hedy Lamarr
A new book looks at the life of the beautiful and brainy movie star Hedy Lamarr.
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Science Friday: Lock Luster
Take a tour through the John M. Mossman Lock Collection in Manhattan, a treasure trove of artifacts showing how bank vault technology has developed since the 1800s. Aired July 5, 2013 [2:17]
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Science Friday: Where's the Octopus
A movie following the research of Roger Hanlon on cephalopods and their ability to use camouflage. Learn about a cephalopods ability not only to change their coloring but also their skin texture. Roger Hanlon explains his research and...
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Science Friday: Oliver Sacks on Music and the Brain
Science Friday's Ira Flatow speaks with author and neurologist Oliver Sacks about music and the brain and Sacks' latest book Musicophilia. [2:32]
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Science Friday: Blue Whale Barrel Roll
Blue whales can grow to 90 feet! "That's longer than a tennis court. Getting that big requires a lot of fuel," says Jeremy Goldbogen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cascadia Research Collective. That's why Goldbogen studies the whales'...
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Science Friday: Star Crossed Galaxies
Dr. Barry Rothberg of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, details how colliding galaxies play out and why the fate of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, could already be sealed. [5:24]
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Science Friday: Where's the Cuttlefish?
Duke biologist Sarah Zylinski discusses her work with cuttlefish and their peculiar camouflage behaviors. [3:51]
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Science Friday: Forecasting Avalanches
Despite their speed and power, avalanches are not entirely unpredictable forces of nature. Using field tests and a deep understanding of how to identify weaknesses in the snow pack, staff members from the Utah Avalanche Center forecast...
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Science Friday: Science of Good Dancing
Evolutionary psychologist Nick Neave researched men's dancing skills and found that the highly-rated male dancers had some moves in common. Tracy Inman, co-director of The Ailey School, has trained thousands of dancers and responds to...
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Science Friday: Suckers for Sap
While commercial syrup producers have adopted vacuum pumps and plastic tubing, recent experiments at the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center may further pull the industry from its pastoral roots. [5:26]
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Science Friday: Bones, Books, and Bell Jars
In her new book, Bones Books and Bell Jars, physician and photographer Andrea Baldeck documents the collection of medical texts, instruments, and specimens at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum.
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Science Friday: Tiny Dancers Show Rhythm's Roots
Psychologist Marcel Zentner and Tuomas Eerola found that babies will dance when they hear music and other rhythmic sounds. The findings suggest babies smile more when they hit the beat. [3:33]
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Science Friday: When Water Flows Uphill
See a common cooking phenomenon take center stage in a series of playful experiments by physicists at England's University of Bath, who discovered new and fun means to manipulate the movement of water. [4:02]
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Science Friday: The Myth of the Woolly Bear
Legend holds that the length of a woolly bear caterpillar's color bands can be used to forecast how severe the winter weather will be. SciFri finds out if there's any truth to the ltall tale, and what the caterpillar's fuzzy bristles are...
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Neil De Grasse Tyson
Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us into his office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City for a tour of his office, in the fourth of Science Friday's Desktop...
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson
Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. In the latest installment of Science Friday's Desktop Diaries series, ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of...
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Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Michio Kaku
Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of his office, where he writes his bestsellers and records his radio shows. The futuristic 1950s TV show Flash...
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Science Friday: A Spacesuit Ballet
Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, "It was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly." But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition literally from rival rigid, metal designs. This video...
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Science Friday: How a Lego Shuttle Got to Space
Raul Oaida, 18-years-old, attached a LEGO shuttle, a video camera and a GPS tracker, to a huge helium balloon and sent them into space. Oaida says flight time was just about three hours and the shuttle reached an altitude of 115,000 feet...
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Science Friday: Gear for Your Coffee Grounds
Sam Penix and Sam Lewontin, of Everyman Espresso in New York City, and Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking, percolate over how to get the most out of your grounds. From the chemex to the wood neck, the brewmasters filter out...
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Science Friday: Fermenting With Sandor Katz
Sandor Ellix Katz, self-proclaimed "fermentation revivalist" and author of "The Art of Fermentation" (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012) discusses the two "cultures." [2:14]