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Science Friday: Happy Birthday, Seti@home
An interview with scientist Dan Werthimer about the SETI@home project which started in 1999. Volunteers around the world use their own computers to help search for extraterrestrial communications. Aired May 22, 2009 [10:37]
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Science Friday: Solar Energy Store
Looking to get energy from the sun? We'll hear about a new retail store for solar energy enthusiasts opening in Pennsylvania.
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Science Friday: Citizen Science: Tracking Climate Change
A consortium of researchers is asking the public to help track signs of a changing climate.
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Science Friday: Seasonal Allergies
If you're a sufferer of seasonal allergies, you may not need to be told that in some parts of the country, the spring allergy season is in full swing. We'll talk allergies this hour.
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Science Friday: New Approaches to Targeted Cancer Therapy
We'll hear about an approach to targeted cancer therapy that uses nanoparticles of fat to deliver a gene therapy to tumor cells.
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Science Friday: Earth Day and the Environment
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Has it made a difference? [23 mins. 46]
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Science Friday: Diabetes News
In this segment, we'll look at new research in the battle against diabetes, and efforts to cure Type 1 diabetes by regrowing islet cells.
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Science Friday: The Science of Getting a 'Yes'
In this segment, Ira talks with a social psychologist about persuasion, and psychological tricks for helping you get what you want.
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Science Friday: The Experimental Traveler: Take a Science Vacation
Plan a scientific summer getaway around Grand Canyon geology, tidepools or volcanic lava tubes.
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Science Friday: A Relative for Lucy
How well did 'Lucy' walk on two legs? New research says that upright walking may be an ancient skill. Hear about the discovery of a skeleton named 'Kadanuumuu,' or 'Big Man,' whois also an Australopithecus afarensis, but dates from 3.6...
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Science Friday: Medicare Payments to Doctors
Thursday night, the US House of Representatives voted to approve a piece of legislation that would block cuts in Medicare payments to doctors.
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Science Friday: Medical Marijuana
Although more states are voting to allow medical use of marijuana, it's still a politically sensitive topic.
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Science Friday: Top Tech Gadgets
We'll talk about the best -- and worst -- geeky gadgets on the technology market this holiday season.
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Science Friday: Future Fibers
Today, fibers are dumb strands of material. But could those fibers have more functions than just keeping the wearer warm and dry? Just over a year ago, some of the same researchers described engineering optoelectronic fibers capable of...
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Science Friday: Video Pick of the Week: Horseshoe Crab Season
A look at the lives of one of the planet's ancient inhabitants - the horseshoe crab.
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Science Friday: The Incredible Shrinking Proton?
New measurements from a group of physicists indicate that the proton may be about 4 percent smaller than previously thought. But what does that mean?
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Science Friday: From Lab to Pharmacy
This week, Harold Varmus was sworn in as director of the National Cancer Institute. He's no stranger to government science, having headed the NIH during the 1990s before a stint as head of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr...
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Science Friday: Of Email, Data, Graphs and Climate
Two investigations have cleared researchers at a climate research institute of wrongdoing after questions were raised about comments made in email exchanges between the scientists. We'll take a look at the controversy.
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Science Friday: Voting Machine Update
A computer scientist discusses the hack-ability of voting machines and election security.
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Science Friday: Technology and the Brain
What can the way we interact with technology teach us about the way we interact with each other?
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Science Friday: Cyber Warfare
With the Stuxnet worm still affecting industrial systems around the world, some analysts are saying that the code may have been produced by a government. We'll talk about cyber warfare and computer security.
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Science Friday: Now Hear This: Speech Recognition
Speech recognition systems are moving beyond providing train schedules and movie times.
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Science Friday: Y2 K Revisited
We dip into the Science Friday archives for a trip back to December 31, 1999, and a look at 'The Y2K Problem.'We dip into the Science Friday archives for a trip back to December 31, 1999, and a look at 'The Y2K Problem.
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Science Friday: Remembering Steve Jobs
Author Steven Levy remembers the life and contributions of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.