Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Probing Poop for Cellulose Chomping Microbes
Bugs found in herbivore guts can break down woody plant material for use in biofuel production.
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Science Friday: Video Pick: Growing a Wastewater Treatment Plant
The algal turf scrubber uses algae to boost water quality.
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Science Friday: Are You Happy?
New research seeks to probe people's behavior and their happiness levels.
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Science Friday: Buying Happiness
Psychologists say buying experiences, not things, can can make you happier.
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Science Friday: Connected
How can your friends -- and your friends' friends -- affect you?
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Science Friday: Flagstaff Throws a Party for Science
A ten-day event in Flagstaff highlights science in Northern Arizona. [16 mins. 38]
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Science Friday: Coral in Crisis
The world's coral reefs are in great danger, threatened by climate change. We'll hear about new forecasts for the future of the world's coral.
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Science Friday: State of the Oceans
We depend on them for food, recreation, and more -- so why do we treat our oceans so badly? In this hour, Ira and guests take a look at the state of the world's ocean ecosystems. The prognosis isn't good -- but is it hopeless?
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Science Friday: Calculus Diaries
Sure, the math teacher said this stuff was important -- but why?
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Science Friday: Steven Strogatz Talks Math
What are the odds? How are we connected? And does it all add up? Steven Strogatz, professor of applied mathematics, joins us to run the numbers.
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Science Friday: Strange Physics: Dark Flow, Fine Structure Constant
We'll talk about the mind-boggling idea that stuff we can't see within our visible universe could be causing gravitational effects on visible matter.
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Science Friday: Mental Exercise and Dementia
Can regular mental exercise help slow down the progress of dementia?
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Science Friday: Are Math Skills Built in to the Human Brain?
Amazonian villagers with no schooling understand basic geometry as well as math-schooled adults.
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Science Friday: Student Inventors Dream Up a Better Wheelchair
High school engineering students describe their award-winning invention.
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Science Friday: Students Tackle "Kids" Science Challenge"
Two fourth grade students discuss their award-winning 'Kids' Science Challenge' projects.
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Science Friday: Data Mining in the Mobile World
We'll talk about the potential benefits offered by real-time mobile data mining, and about the risks to privacy.
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Science Friday: Improving Automobile Efficiency
Energy legislation currently moving through Congress could result in an increase in fuel efficiency standards for the U.S. auto fleet. In this segment, Ira and guests talk about the legislation, and about research into improving the fuel...
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Science Friday: Science Book Picks for 2007
In this segment, Ira and guests discuss notable books about science, medicine, and the environment that were published in the last year. Call in with your own suggestions!
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Science Friday: Only a Theory
In this segment, guest host Joe Palca talks with biology professor and textbook author Kenneth Miller about the fight to keep creationism out of public school science class.
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Science Friday: Punk Rock Evolution
Ira talks with Greg Graffin, a lecturer in the life sciences at UCLA -- and singer /songwriter for the band 'Bad Religion.
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Science Friday: Amir Aczel Looks at the Lhc
Hear the story of the world's largest science experiment! At the CERN, scientist are trying to recreate the big bang with their Large Hadron Collider. [20 min, 5 secs]
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Science Friday: Mars Rover Peers Into the Endeavour Crater
Opportunity has reached a 14-mile-wide crater on Mars.
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Science Friday: Physics Nobelists Observed an Accelerating Universe
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three American astronomers.
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Science Friday: Video Pick: Mapping Flames
Two engineers are videoing fire with high speed cameras to try to make a 3D reconstruction of a flame.