Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Science stories • Technology and innovation • Health and medicine • Environmental issues • Space and astronomy • Archaeology and history • Genetic research • Sociocultural insights
"Science Friday" is a podcast that delivers a diverse array of entertaining and educational stories centered around science and technology. The show explores an extensive range of topics, from the vastness of space to the smallest microbes within our bodies. It covers cutting-edge scientific research and breakthroughs, technological innovations, and fascinating curiosities of the natural world. Key themes that arise frequently include health and medicine, as evidenced by discussions on mRNA vaccines, breast milk research, and the potential impacts of food dyes. The podcast also delves into environmental issues, addressing topics like climate change’s effect on the insurance industry and the vulnerability of fungal networks. Episodes explore historical and cultural intersections with science, using narratives like the Scopes Trial's ongoing relevance and Agatha Christie's use of chemistry in fiction. There is a strong focus on both the wonders of nature and significant challenges within the scientific community, such as funding cuts that impact research projects. The podcast tackles contemporary issues like the role of technology and artificial intelligence in shaping our understanding of truth and reality. It further covers intriguing aspects of everyday phenomena, from the science behind whistling to the composition of sunscreen. By examining both familiar and exotic scientific subjects, "Science Friday" provides its listeners with engaging insights into the current scientific discourse and the ongoing quest for knowledge across different domains. This podcast serves as a platform for scientists, researchers, and other experts to share their findings and insights, fostering a deeper appreciation of the world around us.
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Episodes:
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The Human Obsession With Aliens Goes Way, Way Back
2025-Sep-12
25 minutes
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A Delicious But Invasive Mushroom Could Affect Fungal Diversity
2025-Sep-11
19 minutes
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A Photographer Captures Nature In Mind-Boggling Detail
2025-Sep-10
18 minutes
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How Shoddy Science Is Driving A Supplement Boom
2025-Sep-09
19 minutes
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Octopuses Use Suckers To ‘Taste’ Harmful Microbes
2025-Sep-08
19 minutes
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After CDC Director Is Ousted, More Senior Officials Resign
2025-Sep-05
13 minutes
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Meet 3I/Atlas, An Object From Another Solar System
2025-Sep-04
18 minutes
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How Common Household Products Pollute Our Indoor Air
2025-Sep-03
13 minutes
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The Shape-Shifting Science Of Sand Dunes
2025-Sep-02
17 minutes
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Food Science Experts On Perfecting At-Home Ice Cream
2025-Sep-01
18 minutes
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An ER Doctor Reflects On Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later
2025-Aug-29
25 minutes
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An Archaeologist And A Tattoo Artist Decipher Ancient Ink
2025-Aug-28
18 minutes
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What Lies Beneath The Outer Layers Of A Star?
2025-Aug-27
12 minutes
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How Have Gray Wolves Fared 30 Years After Reintroduction?
2025-Aug-26
12 minutes
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Are Food Dyes Really Bad For You?
2025-Aug-25
18 minutes
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mRNA Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
2025-Aug-22
18 minutes
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Can The Rise In Solar Power Balance Out Clean Energy Cuts?
2025-Aug-21
18 minutes
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Decoding Fireflies’ Smelly Signals And Blinking Butts
2025-Aug-20
17 minutes
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The Uncertain Science Behind What We Understand As ‘Truth’
2025-Aug-19
18 minutes
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How Agatha Christie Used Chemistry To Kill (In Books)
2025-Aug-18
17 minutes
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What Do mRNA Funding Cuts Mean For Future US Research?
2025-Aug-15
19 minutes
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Breast Milk Is Understudied. What Are Scientists Learning Now?
2025-Aug-14
18 minutes
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When Headaches Are Ruining Your Life, Where Can You Turn?
2025-Aug-13
18 minutes
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Remembering Apollo 13 Astronaut James Lovell
2025-Aug-12
28 minutes
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‘Underground Atlas’ Shows How Vulnerable Fungal Networks Are
2025-Aug-11
18 minutes
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Lithium May Have A Role In Causing—And Treating—Alzheimer’s
2025-Aug-08
26 minutes
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Are Cold Plunges Actually Good For You?
2025-Aug-07
18 minutes
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A Nagasaki Survivor And Physician Recounts His Life's Work
2025-Aug-06
18 minutes
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65 Genomes Expand Our Picture Of Human Genetics
2025-Aug-05
18 minutes
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How The Moon Transformed Life On Earth
2025-Aug-04
14 minutes
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EPA Seeks To Revoke Scientific Basis For Greenhouse Gas Rules
2025-Aug-01
24 minutes
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You Can Whistle While You Work—But How Does A Whistle Work?
2025-Jul-31
17 minutes
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A Reptile’s Baffling Backfin And The Math Of Dashing Dinos
2025-Jul-30
18 minutes
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NASA Employees Protest Cuts In Formal Dissent Letter
2025-Jul-29
13 minutes
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Where Are We On The Science Of Menopause?
2025-Jul-28
18 minutes
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EPA To Shut Down Scientific Research Arm
2025-Jul-26
12 minutes
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Parker Solar Probe Captures Closest-Ever Images Of The Sun
2025-Jul-25
18 minutes
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Climate Change Is Upending The Home Insurance Market
2025-Jul-24
18 minutes
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What The Sigma Is Algospeak?
2025-Jul-23
18 minutes
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How Millions Of Flies Can Help Stop The New World Screwworm
2025-Jul-22
12 minutes
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Why Is The Scopes Trial Still Relevant 100 Years Later?
2025-Jul-21
18 minutes
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Why Don’t We Have A Vaccine For Lyme Disease?
2025-Jul-18
18 minutes
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Is This PTSD Treatment Too Good To Be True?
2025-Jul-17
12 minutes
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Is It Time For A New Model Of The Universe?
2025-Jul-16
28 minutes
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How PFAS From A Military Base Has Sickened Nearby Residents
2025-Jul-15
12 minutes
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The Leap: And Then The Sub Went Silent
2025-Jul-14
28 minutes
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How These Spiders At The Bottom Of The Sea Run On Methane
2025-Jul-13
7 minutes
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As Disasters Escalate, What’s The Future Of FEMA?
2025-Jul-11
19 minutes
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Spaghetti Science And Mouth Taping Myths
2025-Jul-10
18 minutes
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The Goo In Your Home Could Help Science Address Climate Change
2025-Jul-09
17 minutes
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How Do GLP-1 Drugs Override Our Biology?
2025-Jul-08
18 minutes
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The Leap: Everything Else Is Boring
2025-Jul-07
25 minutes
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The Seafaring Life Of ‘Modern-Day Captain Nemo,’ Robert Ballard
2025-Jul-04
30 minutes
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Understanding Sunscreen Ingredients And Which Ones You Need
2025-Jul-03
18 minutes
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In ‘Jurassic World Rebirth,’ Paleontology Is Still The Star
2025-Jul-02
13 minutes
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What Does It Mean To Have A Chatbot Companion?
2025-Jul-01
19 minutes
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The Leap: Mars? It Was A Miracle We Got To Florida
2025-Jun-30
23 minutes
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After Her Grants Got Cut, This Researcher Is Suing The NIH
2025-Jun-27
13 minutes
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New Telescope Captures The Cosmos In Groundbreaking Detail
2025-Jun-26
12 minutes
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How Scientists Made The First Gene-Editing Treatment For A Baby
2025-Jun-25
18 minutes
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Ancient Bone Proteins May Offer Insight On Megafauna Extinction
2025-Jun-24
19 minutes
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The Leap: You Do Realize… That’s Impossible
2025-Jun-23
23 minutes
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What We’re Learning From The James Webb Space Telescope
2025-Jun-20
17 minutes
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How ‘Super Agers’ Stay Sharp And Active Longer Than Their Peers
2025-Jun-19
30 minutes
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A Dino’s Last Dinner And Eavesdropping Birds
2025-Jun-18
20 minutes
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What Are The Best Practices For Prostate Cancer Screening?
2025-Jun-17
18 minutes
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The Leap: Garbage In, Garbage Out
2025-Jun-16
29 minutes
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RFK Jr. Reshuffles CDC Vaccine Panel With Vaccine Skeptics
2025-Jun-13
25 minutes
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What’s Next For China’s Space Program?
2025-Jun-12
19 minutes
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The Ruin And Redemption Of The American Prairie
2025-Jun-11
18 minutes
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Bedbugs Have Been Bugging Us Since Before Beds
2025-Jun-10
18 minutes
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The Leap: A Scientist’s Quest To See Every Organism On Earth
2025-Jun-09
25 minutes
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Are We Prepared To Fight ‘The New Polio’?
2025-Jun-06
25 minutes
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How Science Communication Can Step Up Amid Federal Cuts
2025-Jun-05
18 minutes
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How Cannibalistic Tadpoles Could Curb Invasive Cane Toads
2025-Jun-04
18 minutes
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Turning The Binoculars On Birders
2025-Jun-03
18 minutes
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The Leap: Be Bold Or Just Don't Do It
2025-Jun-02
26 minutes
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What Huge Cuts To NSF Funding Mean For Science
2025-May-30
19 minutes
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What Happens When Air Traffic Control Systems Go Dark?
2025-May-29
16 minutes
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Could The NIH Plan For A ‘Universal Vaccine’ Really Work?
2025-May-28
27 minutes
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The Leap: This Is Going To Kill Your Career
2025-May-27
23 minutes
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The Science Of That Big Stunt From The New ‘Mission: Impossible’
2025-May-23
19 minutes
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Meet A Pioneer Of Modern Weather Prediction
2025-May-22
18 minutes
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Are Physical Buttons And Knobs Making A Comeback?
2025-May-21
20 minutes
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Scientists Identify Genes For Tomato And Eggplant Size
2025-May-20
18 minutes
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The Leap: The Volcano Whisperer
2025-May-19
28 minutes
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Lesser Prairie Chicken May Lose Endangered Species Status
2025-May-16
18 minutes
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Tracking The Hidden Dangers Of Fighting Fires
2025-May-15
18 minutes
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Identifying New Plants, And The Scientific Secrets Of Superfoods
2025-May-14
29 minutes
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Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas
2025-May-13
17 minutes
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The Leap: I Was Considered A Nobody
2025-May-12
27 minutes
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Cuts To NASA And A Fast-Track For Deep Sea Mining
2025-May-09
25 minutes
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How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other?
2025-May-08
23 minutes
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Functional Fashion From An Artist And A Caterpillar
2025-May-07
18 minutes
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Ancient Iguanas Floated 5,000 Miles Across The Pacific | A Pregnant Ichthyosaur Fossil
2025-May-06
18 minutes
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Are There Things That We Know We Can’t Know?
2025-May-05
18 minutes
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Two Steps Forward For Meat Alternatives
2025-May-02
16 minutes
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How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations | Regional Allergies
2025-May-01
22 minutes
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A New Book On The Horrifying, Creative World Of Insect Zombies
2025-Apr-30
18 minutes
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Untangling The Mind-Body Connection In Chronic Pain
2025-Apr-29
18 minutes
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A Precisely Pointed Laser Allows People To See New Color ‘Olo’
2025-Apr-28
18 minutes
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$8B Of Climate Tech Projects Canceled | In Louisiana, A Successful, Growing Wetland
2025-Apr-25
20 minutes
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Investigating Cat Behavior Through Genetics
2025-Apr-24
18 minutes
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Advances In Brain-Computer Interfaces For People With Paralysis
2025-Apr-23
18 minutes
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A Blind Inventor’s Life Of Advocacy And Innovation
2025-Apr-22
18 minutes
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The Lack Of Science In Road Design Is Deadly
2025-Apr-21
18 minutes
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Possible Signature Of Life Detected On Exoplanet—Maybe | A Colossal Squid Video
2025-Apr-18
24 minutes
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How ‘Science Interpreters’ Make Hidden Science Visible
2025-Apr-17
18 minutes
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The Navajo Researcher Reviving A Desert Peach | A New Dino With Blade-Like Horns
2025-Apr-16
31 minutes
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How Interjections Regulate Conversation | Saccharin For Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
2025-Apr-15
18 minutes
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Trump’s Nominee For NASA Administrator Meets Congress
2025-Apr-14
15 minutes
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How Real Doctors Brought ‘The Pitt’ To Life
2025-Apr-11
20 minutes
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What Will Replace The International Space Station?
2025-Apr-10
17 minutes
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What Artificial General Intelligence Could Mean For Our Future
2025-Apr-09
29 minutes
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Climate Change Has Made Allergy Season Worse. How Do We Cope?
2025-Apr-08
15 minutes
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Microdosing Peanut Butter Could Alleviate Some Peanut Allergies
2025-Apr-07
17 minutes
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The Department Of Health And Human Services Cuts 10,000 Jobs
2025-Apr-04
12 minutes
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Forecasting Cuts Spark Worries About Hurricane Season | Soothing Babies With Music
2025-Apr-03
17 minutes
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Massive Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Wonders Below
2025-Apr-02
17 minutes
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TikTok Is Shaping How We Think About ADHD
2025-Apr-01
18 minutes
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Engineering Lessons One Year After The Baltimore Bridge Collapse
2025-Mar-31
18 minutes
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23andMe Bankruptcy | A Coating That Can Slow A Golf Ball’s Roll
2025-Mar-28
24 minutes
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AI Word Choice | When Dwarf Lemurs Hibernate, Their Chromosomes Do Something Odd
2025-Mar-27
24 minutes
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Developing Faster, Simpler Tools To Treat Tuberculosis
2025-Mar-26
18 minutes
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Author John Green On The Many Ways Tuberculosis Shaped Human Life
2025-Mar-25
19 minutes
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DESI Data Strengthens Evidence Of Change In Dark Energy
2025-Mar-24
18 minutes
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NASA Astronauts Return To Earth After Extended Stay On The ISS | Bottle "Pop" Physics
2025-Mar-21
19 minutes
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The Evolving Science Of How Childhood Trauma Shapes Adults | Butterfly Memories
2025-Mar-20
18 minutes
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How NIH Cuts Could Affect U.S. Biomedical Research
2025-Mar-19
18 minutes
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Fungi Create Complex Supply Chains | A Rookie Robot Umpire Takes The Field
2025-Mar-18
18 minutes
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10% Of NOAA Staff Laid Off | Frozen Funds Leave Farmers In Limbo
2025-Mar-17
25 minutes
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Pi, Anyone? A Celebration Of Math And What’s New
2025-Mar-14
18 minutes
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How Plants Powered Prehistoric Giants Millions Of Years Ago
2025-Mar-13
18 minutes
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How Narwhals Use Their Tusks To Hunt And Play | This Week's ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse
2025-Mar-12
16 minutes
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Where Have All The Butterflies Gone?
2025-Mar-11
17 minutes
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What Does Dismantling USAID Mean For Global Health?
2025-Mar-10
18 minutes
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Protesters ‘Stand Up For Science’ At Rallies Nationwide | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander
2025-Mar-07
27 minutes
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The Effort To Save Thousands Of Donor Kidneys | Ocean Liner Will Become An Artificial Reef
2025-Mar-06
18 minutes
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Where Does Plastic And Other Trash Go After We Throw It Away?
2025-Mar-05
18 minutes
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An Animal’s Size And Its Cancer Risk | Bastetodon, A 30 Million-Year-Old Apex Predator
2025-Mar-04
17 minutes
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How Trump’s DEI Ban Will Affect Medical Research
2025-Mar-03
18 minutes
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Conflicting Directives Sow Confusion For NIH Workers | The Mycobiome
2025-Feb-28
25 minutes
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The Best Tail For Balance | Bindi Irwin Wants Kids To Become ‘Wildlife Warriors’
2025-Feb-27
22 minutes
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A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
2025-Feb-26
17 minutes
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Why Are Flu And Other Viral Infection Rates So High This Year?
2025-Feb-25
18 minutes
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Making Sense Of Federal Cuts To Science—And What Comes Next
2025-Feb-24
17 minutes
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Tomb Of Egyptian King Unearthed | Why The Internet Was Captivated By A Hideous Fish
2025-Feb-21
20 minutes
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What Happens To Your Body When You’re Grieving
2025-Feb-20
18 minutes
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Can Men and Women (Baboons) Really Just Be Friends? | The Best Bear Deterrent May Be Drones
2025-Feb-19
19 minutes
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Adventures In Science At The Icy ‘Ends Of The Earth’
2025-Feb-18
18 minutes
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