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Sleep and the Immune System, Measuring Carbon, Specimens of Hair. Feb 1, 2019, Part 2

Some citizen scientists collect minerals or plants. But 19th-century lawyer Peter A. Browne...

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Telescope Decisions, Grape Plasma, Israeli Moon Lander. Feb 22, 2019, Part 1

The American Astronomical Society meeting is the largest annual gathering of astronomers and...

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Icefish, Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Wireless Baby Monitoring. March 1, 2019, Part 2

During an electrical system test early in in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 of the...

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NASA Administrator, California Wildfires, Lichens. March 8, 2019, Part 1

On December 14, 1972, as Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan prepared to board the lunar module, he...

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SciFri Extra: Celebrating The Elements

Do you have a favorite chemical element? Neurologist Oliver Sacks did—he was partial to dense,...

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Right-To-Repair, Exercise Recovery, Gov. Inslee. April 5, 2019, Part 2

Whenever your smartphone or video game console breaks down, you usually have to go back to the...

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SciFri Extra: Picturing A Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope is tackling one of the largest cosmological challenges ever...

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5G, Pig Brains, Privacy For Nature. April 19, 2019, Part 1

Last week, President Trump announced a new initiative to push forward the implementation of 5G,...

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Degrees of Change: Sponge Cities and Pocket Prairies. April 26, 2019, Part 1

Climate change is happening—now we need to deal with it. Degrees of Change, a new series of...

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Business Planning For Climate Change,The Digital Afterlife. May 3, 2019, Part 1

Scientists have built all sorts of models to predict the likelihood of extreme weather events....

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Bees! May 24, 2019, Part 2

For the hobby beekeeper, there’s much to consider when homing your first domestic honey bee...

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SciFri Extra: A Relatively Important Eclipse

This week marks the 100th anniversary of an eclipse that forever changed physics and our...

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Spoiler Alert, Glyphosate, Unisexual Salamanders. May 31, 2019, Part 1

How many times has this happened to you? You’re standing in front of an open freezer, wondering...

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SciFri Extra: Remembering Murray Gell-Mann

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann died recently at the age of 89. He received the 1969 Nobel Prize in...

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Quantum Leaps, Cancer Drugs, Cat Cameras. June 7, 2019, Part 2

The “spooky physics” of the quantum world has long been marked by two key ideas: The idea of...

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Gender Bias In Research Trials, Antarctica, Tornado Engineering. June 7, 2019, Part 1

For half a century, most neuroscience experiments have had one glaring flaw: They've ignored...

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Degrees Of Change: Urban Heat Islands. June 14, 2019, Part 1

We’ve known for more than 200 years that cities are hotter than surrounding rural areas. All that...

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Paternity, Musical Proteins, Microbiome In Runners. June 28, 2019, Part 2

These days, a scientific paternity test is easily acquired, and its results are seen as almost...

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The Bastard Brigade, Spontaneous Generation. July 5, 2019, Part 2

Much has been written about the Manhattan Project, the American-led project to develop the atomic...

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Mosquitos and Smell, Fermentation, Model Rocket Launch. July 12, 2019, Part 2

If you’ve ever tried brewing your own beer or raising your own sourdough, then you know that the...

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