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Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff. For 25 years we’ve introduced top scientists to public radio listeners, and reminded them how much fun it is to learn something new. But we’re more than just a radio show. We produce award-winning digi...read more

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SciFri 040811 Hour 1: Artificial Leaf, Alzheimers Genetics, Gagarin, Video Pick
SciFri 040811 Hour 2: The Intersection of Art and Science
SciFri 031811Hour 1: Japan Nuclear Status, Geologic Earthquake Effects
SciFri 042911 Hour 1: Cape Wind, Electric Cars, Annoying Book
SciFri 031111 Hour 1: Tsunami / Sweetness / Robot Opera
SciFri 032511 Hour 1: Building Blocks of Life, Pre-Clovis Americans, Return of Project Mohole
SciFri 042211 Hour 1: 30 Years of Shuttles, Video Pick
SciFri 040111 Hour 1: Radiation Vocab, Warmer Planet, Biography of Cancer
SciFri 041511 Hour 1: Nuclear Safety, Oil Spill Anniversary, Herpes, Video Pick
SciFri 030411 Hour 1: HPV and Cancer Risk/Navy and Climate Change/Brian Greene on Multiverses
SciFri 050611 Hour 2: Gravity Probe, Fat, Viruses
SciFri 061711 Hour 2: Voyager 1, History of Information
SciFri 040111 Hour 2: Science Humor, Video Pick
SciFri 052011 Hour 2: Dawn Mission, Exoplanets, Superconductivity
SciFri 060311 Hour 2: Map of the Universe, Narrative Medicine, Chris Adrian
SciFri 051311 Hour 1: Mississippi Flood Control, Schizophrenic Computer, Sun and Lenses
SciFri 050611 Hour 1: Thomas Dolby, Gadgets and Privacy, Video Pick
SciFri 061011 Hour 1: Antimatter Trapping, Autism Genetics, Tissue Engineering Video
SciFri 052711 Hour 2: Moon Water, Moon Speech Legacy, Hummingbird Tongues
SciFri 061711 Hour 1: Black Holes, Untested Stem Cell Therapies, Solar Update
SciFri 012012 Hour 1: Teaching Climate Science, Mindfulness, Martian Meteorites, Super-Fast Animals
SciFri 061011 Hour 2: Disasters, Retooling the Electric Grid
SciFri 051311 Hour 2: New Cancer Treatments, Methane in Well Water, Stealth Technology
SciFri 071511 Hour 2: Editing the Genome, Google Plus, Weeds
SciFri 100711 Hour 1: Rover Update, Physics Nobel, Remembering Steve Jobs, Mapping Flames
SciFri 060311 Hour 1: Social Networks Beyond Facebook, Cyber Attacks, Mosquito Repellant Research, Sunspot Video
SciFri 031811Hour 2: Camouflaged Blood, Titan, MESSENGER, Orchids.
SciFri 101411 Hour 2: Kraken Controversy, Politics Meets Science, Eat Your Fruits and Veggies
SciFri 052711 Hour 1: Microbes and Weather, Math and the Brain, Syphilis
SciFri 062411 Hour 2: Sleep and Hammocks, Robopocalypse, Pervious Pavement, Science Diction: Radio
SciFri 093011 Hour 1: Pterosaurs, Cosmology, Dome Home
SciFri 070811 Hour 1: Science of Beef, Longhorn DNA, Compost
SciFri 111111 Hour 2: Informal Science Education, Meet the Mythbusters
SciFri 032511 Hour 2: Computers and Emotions, Richard Feynman, Spacesuit Design
SciFri 111111 Hour 1: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Walter Isaacson re Steve Jobs, Woodpecker Video
SciFri 110411 Hour 1: Brain Imaging, Dolphins, Constants, Hawk Moth Video
SciFri 031111 Hour 2: Human Aging / Sleep / Science Diction: Clone
SciFri 082611 Hour 2: Higgs, Tomatoes, NOAA Satellites, Science Diction
SciFri 011312 Hour 2: Science Tattoos, Surgery, HuffPost Science
SciFri 052011 Hour 1: Japan Nuclear Update, Summer Book List, Cicada Emergence, Desktop Diary
SciFri 070811 Hour 2: San Antonio Energy, Rock Art
SciFri 030212 Hour 2: Neil deGrasse Tyson On Exploring Cosmic Frontiers
SciFri 100711 Hour 2: Steven Pinker on Violence, Prosthetic Advances
SciFri 112511 Hour 2: Big Roads, Giant Pumpkin, Freud and Cocaine, Stethoscope
SciFri 102811 Hour 1: Flu Shot Effectiveness, The Fabric Of The Cosmos
SciFri 102811 Hour 2: Anthrax Attacks Investigation, Probiotics
SciFri 120911 Hour 1: Rat Empathy, Asian Space Race, Bedbug Breeding, Jump Rope Video
SciFri 102111 Hour 1: Blue Stragglers, Multiple Personalities, Jack-O-Lantern 2.0
SciFri 093011 Hour 2: China Lab Launch, Empathy, Science Diction, Contagion
SciFri 090211 Hour 1: Bacteria and the Brain, Star Formation, Plague DNA
SciFri 071511 Hour 1: Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea, Webb Telescope Funding, Light Bulbs
SciFri 080511 Hour 1: Lifestyles of the Long-Lived, Retractions, Underwater Camouflage
022511 Hour 1: Neurons, Cell Phone and the Brain, 3rd Arm Illusion, Visual Attention
SciFri 030411 Hour 2: Calculating Spaceflight Risks/Data Backup and Storage/Stem Cells and DNA Damage
SciFri 082611 Hour 1: I Heard the Sirens Scream, Earthquakes, Video Pick
SciFri 102111 Hour 2: Predicting The Fall of Space Junk, Getting Beyond Fossil Fuels, Origin Of the Bunsen Burner
SciFri 030912 Hour 1: Gorilla Genome, Taste and Food, Exercise and DNA, Animal Locomotion
SciFri 090211 Hour 2: Anti-Cancer Viruses, Big Roads, Space Station
SciFri 121611 Hour 2: Higgs Search, Inflight Science, Wings
SciFri 021012 Hour 1: Experimental Alzheimers Drug, The Science of Yoga, Supercontinets, The Look of Love
SciFri 110411 Hour 2: Anti-Dengue Mosquitoes, Early Antarctic Expeditions
SciFri 011312 Hour 1: AAS Meeting, Cosmology, Super-TB, Computing Bubbles
SciFri 101411 Hour 1: Nanostructure Crystals, Toaster Project, Space Experiments, Eggs In Space
SciFri 020312 Hour 1: IBEX, The Psychology of Disgust, Alzheimers Research, Blue Marble
SciFri 033012 Hour 2: Art Mind and Brain in Vienna, Diving Deep
SciFri 120211 Hour 2: Skyscrapers, Hedy Lamarr
SciFri 021012 Hour 2: A Guitar Zero Learns Music, Audio Science
SciFri 021712 Hour 1: Military Solar, Sugar and Health, Air Pollution, Find the Cuttlefish
SciFri 031612 Hour 2: Dark Energy, Everest Expedition
SciFri 030912 Hour 2: Dark Matter Clumps, Early Spring, New Horizons Mission to Pluto
SciFri 072211 Hour 1: Stem Cells and Heart Tissue, Wild Life of Our Bodies, Bananas, Video Pick
SciFri 120911 Hour 2: Transgenic Salmon, Pythons and Hearts
SciFri 090911 Hour 1: Caterpillar Virus, Australopithecus sediba, Move an Asteroid
SciFri 111811 Hour 2: Toilet Technology, Stem Cells
SciFri 062411 Hour 1: Dead Zone, Adventures of the Mind, Student Inventors
SciFri 042911 Hour 2: Napping Neurons, Blood Transfusion History, SETI
SciFri 032312 Hour 1: Electric Cars, Losing Control movie, Embryo Images
SciFri 120211 Hour 1: Antibiotic Research, Spontaneous Happiness, Pigeon Flight
SciFri 091611 Hour 1: Science Budget, Siblings, Hackerspaces
SciFri 012712 Hour 1: Magnetic Soap, Space Weather, Mobile Wallet, Ice
SciFri 010612 Hour 2: Bee Parasite, Wintertime Science
SciFri 041511 Hour 2: Note-Taking Invention, Human Origins and Human Language
SciFri 081911 Hour 2: Google+Motorola, Tech and Free Speech, SpaceX
SciFri 092311 Hour 2: Arizona Remote: Grand Canyon, Lowell Observatory
SciFri 010612 Hour 1: Placebo Effect, Flu Research, Levitating Fruit Flies
022511 Hour 2: Bilingual Babies, Turkle on Technology, Transgenic Weeds
SciFri 031612 Hour 1: High-tech Talent, LEGO Shuttle
SciFri 022412 Hour 1: Tiny Transistors, Web Privacy, Moon Geology, Ice Video
SciFri 032312 Hour 2: Alan Alda and the Flame Challenge, Iraq Archaeology
SciFri 090911 Hour 2: Psychology and 9-11, Video Pick: Stalking the Wild Mushroom
SciFri 121611 Hour 1: Music Therapy, Petri Dish
SciFri 012712 Hour 2: Stem Cell Eye Therapy Trial, Open Science, Dog Domestication
SciFri 042211 Hour 2: Soundscape Ecology, Solar Update, Alzheimers Diagnosis, Science Diction
SciFri 012012 Hour 2: Synthetic Trachea Transplant, Renewable Energy, Navigating Large Ships, Science Diction: Moon
SciFri 072911 Hour 2: Trojan Asteroid, Juno Mission, Mars Curiosity
SciFri 091611 Hour 2: In the Plex, Biofuel Prospecting, Video Pick
SciFri 042012 Hour 1: Movie Visual Effects, Bridge Building
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SciFri 020312 Hour 2: Drone Technology, Decoding Speech From Brain Signals
SciFri 112511 Hour 1: IgNobel Prizes Salute The Silly In Science
SciFri 050412 Hour 1: Cocaine Overdose Antidote, Mayim Bialik, Climate Change Policy
SciFri 072211 Hour 2: Summer Science Road Trip, Anatomy of Addiction book
SciFri 081211 Hour 1: Electronic Skin, Food Security
SciFri 080511 Hour 2: Enviro Spending Bills, 2 Moon Theory, Possible Liquid Mars Water, Baseball Injury Stats
SciFri: Seeing Through the Smoke -- The Secrets in a Cigarette
SciFri 111811 Hour 1: Moon and Climate, Solar Update, Oxytocin, Balloon Video
SciFri 030212 Hour 1: New Pharma Biz Models, Climate Wars, Galileo Play
SciFri 123011 Hour 2: GRAIL lunar mission, Antarctic science, Resolutions
SciFri 040612 Hour 2: Wild New York, Urban Coyotes
SciFri 042712 Hour 1: Space Science, Idea Factory
SciFri 122311 Hour 2: Breaking Bad, Woodpecker Search, Bird Count
SciFri: Meet Your Ancient Relatives -- The Denisovans
SciFri 022412 Hour 2: Flu Update, Gene Testing, Microbial Fuel Cell, Tuberculosis
SciFri: Wind Power Plentiful, Study Says
SciFri 072911 Hour 1: Project Nim, Nature-Inspired Materials, Video Pick
SciFri 123011 Hour 1: Year in Review: Science Stories of 2011
SciFri 081911 Hour 1: Science Challenge, Charlottes Web, Video Pick
SciFri 092311 Hour 1: Arizona Remote: Wildfires, Science Festival
SciFri 033012 Hour 1: Science Jokes, Sticky Webs
SciFri 040612 Hour 1: NYC Mayor Bloomberg, Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall
SciFri 042012 Hour 2: Under the Oceans
SciFri 021712 Hour 2: New Nuclear Reactors Approved, Concrete, Digital Dictionaries
SciFri 051112 Hour 1: Hidden Racial Bias and Voting, The Push for a Science Debate
SciFri 122311 Hour 1: Planet hunt, War on Cancer, Plastic Bridges
SciFri: Can Government Bans Tackle Obesity?
SciFri 042712 Hour 2: Headstrong Play, Mining Asteroids, Cancer Care, Robofish
SciFri 051112 Hour 2: Steganography, Obesity Documentary, Disease Detectives, Garbage-Men
SciFri 051812 Hour 2: Urban Agriculture, Itchy Mysteries
SciFri 050412 Hour 2: Thorium Reactors, Spinning Eggs in Milk, Cloud Computing
SciFri 060812 Hour 2: Colliding Galaxies, Ex-Spy Sats for Space Science, SpaceX Plans
SciFri: The Secret to Making Ultrastrong 'Gorilla Glass'
SciFri: Scientists in the Dark Over Birth of the Moon
SciFri 060812 Hour 1: Flame Malware, Stem Cells and Vascular Disease, Flame Challenge Winner
SciFri: Are We Getting Dumber? Maybe, New Research Suggests
SciFri 052512 Hour 2: Ticks and Lyme Disease, Fears and Phobias
SciFri: Curiosity Rover Zaps a Rock, Starts to Roll
SciFri: Analyzing the Evidence on DNA
SciFri 081211 Hour 2: First Robotics Competition, Man of Numbers, Computer Generated Sounds, Flywheel Bike
SciFri: Some Docs Doubt Blood Type, Heart Disease Link
SciFri: Its Budget Sunk, Undersea Lab May Have to Surface
SciFri 040811: The Intersection of Art and Science
SciFri: Not-So-Sweet Side Effects of Artificial Sweeteners
SciFri 060112 Hour 2: Technology and Health Care, Remembering a Son in Immortal Bird
SciFri: Spider-Man Gets a Physics Lesson
SciFri: Hyperloop: Hype or Future Transportation?
SciFri: Starfish Blamed for Great Barrier Reef Coral Loss
SciFri 062212 Hour 2: 3D Printing, Great Skyscrapers, Self Control
SciFri 051812 Hour 1: Solar Eclipse, Neural Control, Rerouting Nerves, SpaceX Launch
SciFri: No Joke -- Why Even Tragedy Gets a Laugh
SciFri 052512 Hour 1: Giant Turtle, Omnivorous Mind, Tasty Tomatoes
SciFri: Study Correlates Copper Intake and Alzheimer’s in Mice
SciFri: With Budget Cuts Looming, Is Science a Lame Duck?
SciFri: Scared to Death... Literally
SciFri: Sally Ride, Pioneer
SciFri: Can the Anti-Aging Secret Be Found in...Red Wine?
SciFri 061512 Hour 1: Emergency Contraception, Microbiome Project, Bacterial Armor, Sylvia Earle
SciFri: Look, Listen, Taste
SciFri 060112 Hour 1: Paralysis Rehab, Ignorance, Muck-Dwelling Microbes, Glowing Millipede
SciFri: Smartening Your TV With Google Chromecast
SciFri: Talking Science with the House Committee Chair
SciFri: New Vaccine Beats Malaria in Early Trials
SciFri: Melding Two Memories Into One
SciFri: Canine Conundrum: How Dog Became Man's Best Friend
SciFri: Spending the Holidays at a Toxic Waste Site
SciFri: Steven Strogatz: The Joy of X
SciFri: Having a Dog May Mean Having Extra Microbes
SciFri: Do Your Gut Bacteria Influence Your Metabolism?
SciFri: SciFri Book Club Talks ‘Monkey Mind’
SciFri: Inventors Design Lamp Powered Entirely by Gravity
SciFri: New Clues to Memory Glitch Behind 'Senior Moments'
SciFri: What Obamacare Means for Patients -- And Their Docs
SciFri: Automakers Drive Towards Hydrogen Cars
Tapping Into Musical Memory
SciFri: Why Do Some Songs Stick in Our Heads?
SciFri: Is It Possible to Make Matter From Light?
SciFri: Is Alternative Medicine Really 'Medicine'?
SciFri: World’s Largest Volcano Discovered on Pacific Seafloor
SciFri: Red Meat's Heart Risk Goes Beyond the Fat
SciFri 062212 Hour 1: China in Space, Voyager Mission, Studying Dark Matter, Mutter Museum
SciFri: Aiming For 'Wild and Crazy' Energy Ideas
SciFri: Seeing Sandy From Space
A Web of Doubt
SciFri: The Debate Over Net Neutrality
SciFri: At Long Last, The Higgs Particle... Maybe
SciFri: Beaming Internet to the Boondocks, Via Balloon
SciFri 061512 Hour 2: Dating Cave Art, Peter Piot, Visualizing Statistics
U.S. High-Speed Internet Lags Behind on Price, Cost
SciFri: Can Plants Think?
SciFri: The Fallacies of Fat
SciFri: As Storm Recovery Continues, Looking to the Future
SciFri: Mars Rover May Be Contaminated with Earth Microbes
SciFri: Alan Alda’s Challenge to Scientists: What Is Time?
SciFri: The Importance of Strange Science
A Newly Discovered Virus That Lives in Our Gut
SciFri: Reinventing How City Dwellers Get Around
Oarfish: The Ultimate Fish Tale
SciFri: The Serious Science of Humor
Mosquito-Borne Viruses Raise Public Health Concern
The Surprisingly Predictable Patterns of Random Choice
Ebola Outbreak Continues in West Africa
SciFri: Rep. Rush Holt: Science and Congress
SciFri: How Touch Helps Us Emotionally Experience the World
SciFri: Preserving Science News in an Online World
SciFri: Tracking a Rise in ADHD Diagnosis
SciFri: Mapping the Birthplace of Modern Languages
What’s the Real Cost of Your Steak?
SciFri: The EPA's New Proposal to Curb Carbon Emissions
SciFri: Is NASA Ready to Make the Leap to a Manned Mission to Mars?
SciFri: What’s ‘I,’ and Why?
SciFri: Chef Jack Bishop Breaks Down 'The Science of Good Cooking'
SciFri: Exploring an Ever-Expanding Universe
SciFri: Art Meets Geek at Toni Dove’s Studio
SciFri: What Happens When Scientists Get It Wrong?
Into the Wormhole: The Science of 'Interstellar'
SciFri: It's a Material World
Experimental Therapy Saves Monkeys From Deadly Dose of Ebola
Can’t Stop Worrying? Blame It on Your Habenula
SciFri: What Happens After the Robot Apocalypse?
‘New Environmentalism’ Moves Beyond Pollution and Climate Change
Rooting Out the Plant Microbiome
SciFri: Attacking Alzheimer’s with Antibodies, Hormones
SciFri: Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate Somewhat Suspect Science
SciFri: For Babies, It’s Better to Like What I Like
SciFri: Alan Turing at 100
022512 Hour 2: Bilingual Babies, Turkle on Technology, Transgenic Weeds
The SciFri Book Club Introduces Dune
What’s So Bad About Being Alone With Your Thoughts?
Will Big Data Answer Big Questions on Health?
To Master Test Material, Give Your Brain a Break
SciFri: A Chronicle of a Whale’s Life, Captured in Earwax
SciFri: The Secret Life of the Sonoran Desert
SciFri: Customizing Your Cryptocurrency With Altcoins
SciFri: Could Life Exist on Newfound Alien Planet?
SciFri: With Chemical Tweaks, Cement Becomes a Semiconductor
SciFri: Unwinding the Cucumber Tendril Mystery
SciFri: Surveying the Mobile Landscape, Post Patent Battle
SciFri: SciFri Book Club Talks Silent Spring
Cybersecurity, Synthetic Speech, Book Club Hunts Lost Cities
SciFri: Is the Universe Built on Math?
How Ultramarathons Affect the Heart, Blood, and Brain
SciFri: Are Microbes Winning the Antibiotic Arms Race?
SciFri: Shedding Light on the Science of Sunscreen
Lacking Funding, Some Scientists Turn to the Crowd
Do Your Patriotic Duty: Learn Math
Sylvia Earle’s ‘Mission Blue’
Meet the Mohawk Behind NASA’s Curiosity Mission
SciFri: A Decade After the Genome, Scientists Map the 'Proteome'
SciFri: Laser Blast Can Regrow Teeth, in Rats
SciFri: Strengthening Buildings in Tornado Alley
SciFri: Surprise: Cockroaches Are Fastidious Groomers!
SciFri: What's Your IQ on SPF?
SciFri: With ‘Terror’ in the Past, Mars Scientists Plan for Exploration Ahead
More Than Cornflakes
‘Evolutionary Misfit’ Finds Its Way Into the Family Tree
Scientists Call Whales the ‘Engineers’ of the Ocean Ecosystem
SciFri: Documenting the Oldest Living Things in the World
SciFri: Should the Last Samples of Smallpox Virus Be Saved?
SciFri: The Origins of Violence
SciFri: Les Paul: Inventor and Innovator
SciFri: Getting a Grasp on the Clever Cephalopod
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