Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Is Preventive Medicine Actually Overtreatment?
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch discusses his book Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health.
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Science Friday: Scientific Case Still Open on 2001 Anthrax Attacks
New reports question whether scientific evidence against the prime suspect was ready for court.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: New Tuberculosis Strain Thwarts All Antibiotics
Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug, discusses the possible origins of the strain.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Tracing Signals in the Brain
Existing ideas of how neurons send and receive information may not be complete.
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Science Friday: Creating the Illusion of a Different Body
Research plays on tricks of the brain to explore how people see their own bodies.
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Science Friday: Pick of the Week: Looking at What the Eye Sees
We move our eyes three times a second, over 100,000 times each day. Why isn't life blurrier?
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Science Friday: Are Transgenic Weeds an Ecological Threat?
If a genetically engineered crop crosses with a wild relative, could a more robust weed result?
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Science Friday: Airport Scanners
Understand the system, how it works, and what you need to know about the airport security screening technology. Audio lecture addresses the concerns of the public with this new screening technology. [12:16]
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Science Friday: Massive Quake Prompts Tsunami Warnings
Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the USGS, explains the connections between quakes and tsunamis.
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Science Friday: Robot Invades Nyc Bookstore
This week's video pick looks at a robotic printer that can produce books to order.
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Science Friday: Despite Long Lives, Humans Age Like Other Primates
Primatologist Susan Alberts discusses a study on the longevity of humans, baboons and chimps.
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Science Friday: Tv and Smartphones May Hamper a Good Night's Sleep
Nearly half of American adults say they rarely get a good night's sleep, according to a new poll.
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Science Friday: Science Diction: The Origin of the Word 'Epilepsy'
Medical historian Howard Markel traces descriptions of epilepsy through the millenia.
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Science Friday: Video Pick: Growing Hearts and Bones
When it comes to engineering tissues, the cells are doing the work, says bioengineer Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic.
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Science Friday: Building a Better Electric Grid
How aging infrastructure and outmoded communications hobble the electrical grid.
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Science Friday: Summer Science Movies
We'll talk about the art and science of several films out this summer, from documentaries chronicling an astronomy project, to a mass-market blockbuster featuring antimatter in a supporting role.
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Science Friday: Did Giant Stars Feed Blue Stragglers?
Astronomers have a new theory on how blue straggler stars are formed.
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Science Friday: The Invention of the Telescope
We'll look back on 400 years of telescopes.
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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: Online Office Applications
Hear about a new suite of office programs -- running in your web browser.
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Science Friday: Protecting Privacy in a Web Searching World
A look at search engines--how they work and where they are headed.
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Science Friday: Science Friday, 1993: The Future of the Internet
In another holiday trip in the wayback machine, we bring you a 1993 discussion of some newfangled thing called the "Internet."
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Science Friday: Exercise in a Pill?
Could popping a pill turn a couch potato into a long-distance runner? [12 mins. 28]
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Science Friday: Drug Testing Examined
With the Olympics approaching, we take a look at the science of drug testing. [17 mins. 47]