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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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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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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