Science Friday

Why Is Solving The Plastic Problem So Hard?

One of the biggest environmental issues in our modern world is plastic, which has become integral...

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What Worsening Floods Mean For Superfund Sites

Superfund sites are some of the most polluted areas in the country, containing highly toxic waste...

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• 2 días

The Global Mental Health Toll Of Climate Change | Capturing DNA From 800 Lakes In One Day

An explosion of research is painting a clearer picture of how climate change is affecting mental...

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• 3 días

Clean Energy Transition Progress | Avian Flu In Cattle And Humans Has Scientists Concerned

Global temperature increases are slowing, electric vehicle sales are growing, and renewable...

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• 6 días

A Cheer For The Physics Of Baseball

College basketball’s March Madness concluded this week, meaning that now the national sports...

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• 7 días

Carbon Cost Of Urban Gardens And Commercial Farms | Why There's No Superbloom This Year

Some food has a larger carbon footprint when grown in urban settings than on commercial farms,...

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• 8 días

Inside The Race To Save Honeybees From Parasitic Mites

Last year, almost half of the honeybee colonies in the U.S. died, making it the second deadliest...

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• 9 días

The Brain’s Glial Cells Might Be As Important As Neurons

Half of the cells in the brain are neurons, the other half are glial cells. When scientists...

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• 10 días

Limits On ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Drinking Water | An Important Winter Home For Bugs | Eclipse Drumroll

A long-awaited rule from the EPA limits the amounts of six PFAS chemicals allowed in public...

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• 13 días

Investigating Animal Deaths At The National Zoo

When a critter meets its end at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, it ends up on a necropsy...

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• 14 días

Eating More Oysters Helps Us—And The Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay produces around 500 million pounds of seafood every year, providing delicious...

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• 15 días

How Trees Keep D.C. And Baltimore Cool

Springtime is a great reminder of just how beautiful trees can be. Cherry blossoms and magnolias...

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• 15 días

Predicting Heart Disease From Chest X-Rays With AI | Storing New Memories During Sleep

Dr. Eric Topol discusses the promise of “opportunistic” AI, using medical scans for unintended...

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• 17 días

Recipient Of Pig Kidney Transplant Recovering | Answering Your Questions About April 8 Eclipse

A Massachusetts man who received a kidney from a genetically modified pig is recovering well....

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• 20 días

Our Inevitable Cosmic Apocalypse

When it comes to the eventual end of our universe, cosmologists have a few classic theories: the...

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• 21 días

The Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind And Right Whales

By the time researchers found the dead whale on a Martha’s Vineyard beach, her jet-black skin was...

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• 22 días

The Bumpy Road To Approving New Alzheimer’s Drugs

In the past few years pharmaceutical companies have developed a string of new Alzheimer’s drugs...

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• 23 días

‘3 Body Problem’ And The Laws Of Physics | In Defense Of ‘Out Of Place’ Plants

Particle accelerators, nanofibers, and solar physics: The science advisor for the Netflix...

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• 24 días

Baltimore Bridge Collapse | Mapping How Viruses Jump Between Species

We look into the engineering reasons why the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed after a ship...

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• 27 días

The Legacy Of Primatologist Frans de Waal

It wasn’t that long ago that scientists didn’t think animals could rival humans in terms of...

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• 28 días