Science Friday: Research Misconduct

This Science Friday looks at the scientific legacy of angiogenesis researcher Judah Folkman. [25:7]

Researchers are using new smells to confuse hungry mosquitoes and keep them from making meals of us. [13:12]

Researchers announced a significant advance in stem cell science, changing skin cells into cells that seem to behave like embryonic stem cells. Science Friday talks about the research and where the field goes from here. [30:18]

The environmental impact of eating less meat, BPA in seawater, and an update on cold fusion research, Science Friday goes behind the scenes at this week's American Chemical Society meeting.

Chat with the curator of the exhibition entitled Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World, which spans centuries of scientific progress, and includes original books and drawings by scientific luminaries such as Galileo, Robert...

What happens when scientists make mistakes, as in bad science, scientific fraud, misrepresentation, and outright lying? Sometimes the results, despite being debunked or retracted, continue to circulate and be cited by others. Aired Aug....

Ira talks with several researchers looking at innovative ways to harvest energy from plant materials, including gasoline-like chemicals, ethanol, and hydrogen production.

An interview with Marc Abrahams, author of This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and other WTF Research. He is an expert in strange science, and talks about what we can learn from unusual and weird experiments....

The National Institutes of Health has decided to cancel a large-scale test of an experimental AIDS vaccine, saying that more focused research was needed on the way such vaccines interact with the immune system. We'll talk with scientists...

Bleach is commonly used as a disinfectant -- but now, for the first time, researchers have described just how bleach works to kill bacteria.