Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Plastics at Sea
Scientists are trying to understand what goes on in and around floating patches of plastic debris in the world's oceans.Scientists are trying to understand what goes on in and around floating patches of plastic debris in the world's oceans.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Margaret Atwood: 'The Year of the Flood'
Ira talks with novelist Margaret Atwood about her new story of a genetically modified dystopia.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Living in the Century of Disasters
Are disasters more common, or does it just feel like it?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Forecasting "Dead Zone" Conditions in the Gulf
Flooding and runoff along the Mississippi may be combining to produce a bad year for the water in the Gulf of Mexico, enlarging a patch of oxygen-starved water. Nancy Rabelais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine...
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Science Friday: The Psychology of 9 11, Ten Years Later
Did 9-11 change the way those suffering from psychological trauma are treated?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Managing Forests to Manage Wildfires
Scientists discuss how to control the fires that have shaped and scarred the Southwest.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Insomnia and Mortality
How important is sleep to your health?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Video Pick of the Week: A Stocky Predator
We meet a newly discovered dinosaur that researchers describe as a 'stocky dragon' -- with claws that could pack a real punch.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: No Return for Solar at 1600
Recently, Bill McKibben discussed an effort to return Carter-era solar panels to the White House. We'll get a report from him on his efforts.
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Science Friday: Cape Wind Project Moves Forward
This week, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved the long-embattled Cape Wind offshore wind power project. We'll talk about the decision, and what it means for other renewable power projects in the country.
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Science Friday: Laughter and Health
Can hearty laughter have some of the same physiological effects as exercise?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Electric Car Gets Its Revenge
Director Chris Paine talks about his new film, Revenge of the Electric Car. [17 mins. 30]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Building "The Big Roads"
Writer Earl Swift traces the evolution of America's superhighway system.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Tracking an Amphibious Caterpillar
Several newly-discovered species of caterpillar in Hawaii function equally well in water or on land.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Uncovering Hidden Paintings
X-ray technology revealed an illustration underneath N.C. Wyeth's painting 'Family Portrait.
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Science Friday: Nobel Chemist Harry Kroto and Buckyballs
We'll talk with chemist Harry Kroto about his discovery of buckyballs in the 1980s, and about new nano applications today, such as buckypaper.
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Science Friday: Bpa and the Fda
Last Friday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was seeking further information about the potential health effects of bisphenol-A, a common ingredient in some plastics.
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Science Friday: A Quake That Shook the World?
An audio lecture exploring how a powerful earthquake in Chile may have shifted the Earth's axis and changed the length of a day. [12:02]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: From Thought to Movement
Researchers have recorded the brain signals responsible for movement outside the brain and used them to reconstruct hand movement in three dimensions.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: An Older Proto Dino
Researchers report finding fossil remains of a 'proto-dinosaur,' some 10 million years older than previously known. Learn about the closest known relative to the dinosaur in this audio lecture. [12:55]
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Science Friday: Persuasion, Energy, and Behavior
When thinking about energy efficiency, how much emphasis should be put on human behavior rather than technology?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Nuclear Technologies
From small-scale nuclear power plants to advanced reactor designs, what's next for the technology of nuclear power?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Dr. Atomic Opera
Ira talks with the composer, the director, and the lead of the opera 'Dr. Atomic,' taking the stage this week at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Sorting Out the Alphas, Betas and Gammas of Radiation
Experts outline the basics of radiation terminology.